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- Lydia Campbell (née Brooks, formerly Lydia Blake, known commonly as “Aunt Lydia”), matriarch, writer (born 1 November 1818 at Hamilton Inlet, Newfoundland Colony; died 29 April 1905 in Mulligan, Newfoundland Colony). Campbell was an Anglo- Inuit matriarch in Labrador. She was the first person from Nunatsiavut to publish her writing.
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Jun 23, 2023 · Lydia Campbell (née Brooks, formerly Lydia Blake, known commonly as “Aunt Lydia”), matriarch, writer (born 1 November 1818 at Hamilton Inlet, Newfoundland Colony; died 29 April 1905 in Mulligan, Newfoundland Colony).
Lydia Campbell née Brooks (November 1, 1818 – April 1905 [1]), born to an Inuk mother and an English father, [2] was an early diarist in Labrador. [3] She is one of Labrador's best known historical figures and writers, affectionately known as "Aunt Lydia".
Lydia Campbell, also known as Lydia Blake and Lydia Brooks was born in 1818 in Hamilton Inlet in central Labrador to Ambrose Brooks, an Englishman working for the Hudson Bay Company, and his Inuit wife, renamed Susan. She was a “livyere” or Labrador settler of mixed blood.
Dec 12, 2020 · Referred to simply as "Aunt Lydia," Lydia Campbell was born in the area now known as Lake Melville in 1818. The daughter of an Inuit mother and English father, she is the first known...
In 2009, Lydia Campbell ( 1818–1905), a Labrador writer of Inuit and English parentage, was designated by the Canadian government as “a person of national historic significance.” 1 However, as one blogger
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Feb 16, 2019 · Lydia Campbell, known as Aunt Lydia to many, was the first known native-born Labradorian to record her daily life in written English. (Land & Sea) Lydia Campbell was a rarity in her...
Lydia Campbell (née Brooks, formerly Lydia Blake, known commonly as “Aunt Lydia”), matriarch, writer (born 1 November 1818 at Hamilton Inlet, Newfoundla...
