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Isobel Gunn (1781 – 1861)

Into the 1806 , she yards ade a lifetime changing decision , register ing the new Hudson’s Bay Compan y . As the merely people could work to the c ompany, she believed their dad ‘ s label ‘John Fubbister ‘ and you will disguised h er real identity.

Seem to u naware of her sex , Gunn’s employers put their to the office since the an excellent laborer at Fort Albany to your western coast away from James Bay. She usually worked with an other Orcadian, John Scarth , and records declare that Gunn worked “voluntarily and you can better” .

To your 30 December 1807 Isobel Gunn grabbed ill and you will expected to help you stay static in our home of your own trading post ‘s the reason learn, Alexander Henry.

“…the guy stretched-out his hand towards the me, plus in piteous hues begged to me as type to help you a negative helpless, quit wretch, who had been maybe not of one’s intercourse I experienced supposed, however, an unfortunate Orkney woman, expecting, and also inside the childbearing.”

Return to Scotland

The latest c ompany’s plan barred the woman out of one real labor . Good lthough she got already demonstrated she was more capable of the really works their men alternatives undertook, she is set to behave as an excellent washerwoman.

From inside the 1809 , Gunn are delivered back to Orkney up against the girl desires. Continue Reading