NOTES

Chapter V The rediscovery of Hubbard’s camp in 1973 created a renewed interest in the bronze plaque lost in the Beaver River, including the question of its weight. This detail is nowhere to be found in Wallace’s accounts of the 1913 journey. The New York Times reported on 23 October 1913 that friends of Wallace had expressed concern at not hearing from him since early September, when he set out alone up the Labrador coast. The report went on to say that Judge Malone and Gilbert Blake, who returned to civilization two months previously, had described the lost tablet as weighing sixty pounds.

^{Chapter XII} "Breat" is not a typographical error. Wallace's spelling for bread is the way the Labrador trappers pronounced it.  In his youth, Rudy Mauro often heard the pronunciation when trappers purchased their staples at the local Hudson's Bay Company store.

^{Chapter XXI} Charles Riley, an enthusiastic sportsman who had shown much interest in the expedition, was an official of the Horton Manufacturing Company, of Bristol, Connecticut.

Chapter XXX O’Keefe Lake was named by Wallace for Dan O’Keefe, under whom Hubbard had served as a cub reporter on the old New York Daily News. In 1913, he was Managing Editor of the New York Commercial. It was O’Keefe who got together with some of Hubbard’s friends and donated the bronze plaque for mounting in Labrador.

Chapter XXXII In 1973, to mark the occasion of the rediscovery of Hubbard’s last camp by Rudy Mauro and Dillon Wallace III, the Canadian Committee for Geographical Names recognized Goose Creek, Mountaineer Lake, Elson Lake, Murdock’s Rapid and the Charles Riley River as official names on the map.

The 2,500-foot mountains attained by the Hubbard expedition and given the name Kipling Mountains by Wallace in 1903 in honour of Hubbard, were later unknowingly designated the Red Wine Mountains by the Canadian Geological Survey. In 1973, in recognition of the oversight, the Committee for Geographical Names applied the name Mount Kipling to the mass immediately east of Disappointment Lake, which rises 673 feet above the water.

Aerial view of Hubbard memorial site

Hubbard memorial plaque erected by Rudy Mauro and Dillon Wallace III in 1977

Map by Rudy Mauro. Grand Lake traverses approximate

Close up of memorial plaque

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