2003 Hubbard Memorial Centennial Expedition

Grand Lake - Photo Album B

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The expedition enters Grand Lake shortly after leaving North West River Scouting the shoreline of Grand Lake; protected from insects by a bug shirt.
Setting up camp in the thick spruce forest Sunset on a stormy evening over Grand Lake

A critical point for the 1903 Hubbard Expedition!
Read the text below the next two photographs to learn how their trouble began.

Looking west from Cape Law to the mouth of Susan Brook Looking north from Cape Law to the mouth of the Naskaupi River
The view from Cape Law on Grand Lake. The photograph on the left looks west toward the mouth of Susan Brook and what Hubbard thought was the "end" of Grand Lake. The photograph on the right looks north toward the mouth of the Naskaupi River. It was at this point that Hubbard became convinced that the Naskaupi flowed into the gap at the "end" of the lake shown in the photograph on the left. It was one of several miscalculations that would ultimately cost him his life. Instead of ascending the Naskaupi River, the Hubbard expedition went up Susan Brook. Our expedition retraced Hubbard's route up the Susan in order to prove that it was a viable, albeit torturous, route to Lake Michikamau.

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