About Lydia Campbell Lydia Campbell was born in 1818, and died in 1905. According to the foreword by Tony Williamson in the 1980 printing of her memoirs, Lydia Campbell`’s writings represent the first published writings of a native Labrador resident. Books by Lydia Campbell But That Has All Changed Now Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914 by (author) Mary Alice Downie, Barbara Robertson, Elizabeth Jane Errington & Lydia Campbell Sketches of Labrador Life by (author) Lydia Campbell
