Isobel Gunn

Deceased Person

1780 – 1861

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Who was Isobel Gunn?

Isabel Gunn, also known as John Fubbister or Mary Fubbister, was a Scottish labourer employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, noted for having passed herself as a man, thereby becoming, not just a pioneer of feminism, but the first European woman to travel to Rupert's Land, now part of Western Canada.

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Born
1780
Orkney Islands
Nationality
  • Canada
Died
Nov 7, 1861

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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