Leonidas Hubbard

In 1901 he married Mina Adelaine Benson, a woman two years his senior and at the time an assistant superintendent of a Staten Island hospital.

He became an assistant editor of Outing magazine and in 1903 led an expedition to canoe the system Naskaupi River–Michikamau Lake in Labrador and George River in Quebec.

His companions on this journey were his friend, New York lawyer Dillon Wallace, and a First Nations guide from Missanabie, George Elson.

Wallace got lost in the snowstorm, while Elson, after a week of bushwhacking, building raft to cross swollen rivers (with no ax), reached the nearest occupied cabin.

In 1913, Wallace returned with Judge William Malone and Gilbert Blake to place a memorial plaque where his friend perished (53°45′58.96″N 61°28′21.98″W / 53.7663778°N 61.4727722°W / 53.7663778; -61.4727722).

Leonidas Hubbard on the shore of Grand Lake at Northwest River, Labrador, July 1903, prior to embarking on his ill-fated expedition.