1809. There, she lived in poverty, working as a stocking and mitten maker until her death. Legacy Isobel Gunn's life has subsequently become the basis for a work of historical fiction by author Audrey Thomas, a documentary poem entitled The Ballad of Isabel Gunn by Stephen Scobie, and the subject of a documentary film entitled The Orkney Lad: The Story of Isabel Gunn, directed by filmmaker Anne Wheeler. Canadian folk singer Eileen McGann also paid tribute with her ballad 'Isabella Gunn'. See also Marie-Anne Gaboury, the first woman of European descent to permanently settle in Rupert's Land. References Henry, Alexander: The Journal of Alexander Henry The Younger 1799-1814, Toronto: Champlain Society, 1988 Van Kirk, Sylvia: Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870, Winnipeg: Watson and Dwyer, 1980 Scobie, Stephen: The Ballad of Isabel Gunn Kingston, ON: Quarry, 1987 Thomas, Audrey: Isobel Gunn, Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2000 External links A biography from the Hudson's Bay Company How "John Fubbister" was discovered Isobel Gunn at orkneyjar at "Undiscovered Scotland" Canadian fur traders 1781 births 1861 deaths People from Orkney Female-to-male cross-dressers Canadian LGBT people Scottish expatriates in Canada 19th-century Scottish businesspeople 19th-century British businesswomen