Caubvick ( fl. 1773) was an

Inuk Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and ...

from

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, a wife of one of George Cartwright's Inuit friends. The highest peak in all of Labrador and east of the

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is named in her honour,

Mount Caubvick Mount Caubvick (known as Mont D'Iberville in Quebec) is a mountain located in Canada on the border between Labrador and Quebec in the Selamiut Range of the Torngat Mountains. It is the highest point in mainland Canada east of the Rockies. The m ...

. Her name comes from the Inuktitut word for "wolverine" which is ().http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic62-1-45.pdf In 1773, George Cartwright took Attuiock and Tooklavina and their wives, including Caubvick, to

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where they met with the king, members of the Royal Society and

James Boswell James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (New Style, N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the Englis ...

Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador ''Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador'' is an Encyclopedia commissioned by Joey Smallwood to capture the people, places, events and history of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Smallwood's view on the purpose of the encyclopedia wa ...

'' () The Inuit all developed

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while in England. Caubvick was the only survivor of the group. She returned to her native Labrador and passed on the dreaded disease to many of her people.

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Portrait of Caubvick
People from Labrador Inuit from Newfoundland and Labrador {{Canada-bio-stub

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