Labrador Doctor

Labrador Doctor
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Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 1550283049
ISBN-13 : 9781550283044
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Labrador Doctor by : Paddon, W. A.

Autobiography of William Anthony Paddon who worked for more than 30 years as a pioneer doctor with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador.

Grenfell of Labrador

Grenfell of Labrador
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 386
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780773575196
ISBN-13 : 0773575197
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Grenfell of Labrador by : Ronald Rompkey

The best-selling biography of Wilfred Grenfell, back in print.

The Grenfell Medical Mission

The Grenfell Medical Mission
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9780773555808
ISBN-13 : 0773555803
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Grenfell Medical Mission by : Jennifer J. Connor

Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them Americans from Ivy League institutions. As the medical mission grew to become the International Grenfell Association, establishing institutions along the Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts, Americans also became resident staff leaders in the region, and Grenfell himself married an American, Anne MacClanahan, who led mission activities. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s reveals the nature and extent of support from Americans throughout the distributed privately run social enterprise until the 1940s, before the region joined Canada. Essays explore the organization's claims to share an Anglo-Saxon heritage with the United States, American reaction to its financial scandal and creation of an incorporated association, its promotion of sport and masculinity, and the development of education and schools in the region and the mission. The organization's strong ties to the United States are exemplified by Grenfell's friendship with American physician John Harvey Kellogg; the donation of clothing from American donors; the work of one American woman on her affiliated mission unit; the impact of American philanthropy and training on the construction of the mission's main hospital in St Anthony; and the superior American-accredited health care facilities and their clinical achievements. From its corporate base in New York City, the International Grenfell Association blended contemporary social movements and adopted American notions of philanthropy. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s offers the first thorough history of an iconic health and social organization in Atlantic Canada.

A Labrador Doctor

A Labrador Doctor
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Publisher : Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Total Pages : 534
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044029893013
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis A Labrador Doctor by : Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Autobiography of Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D., Labrador's famous missionary doctor.

Adrift on an Ice-Pan

Adrift on an Ice-Pan
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Publisher : Hervey Press
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9781409772996
ISBN-13 : 1409772993
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Adrift on an Ice-Pan by : W. T. Grenfell

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse

Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 159
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ISBN-10 : 1771175974
ISBN-13 : 9781771175975
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse by : Rosalie M. Lombard

Like other children of the 1930s, I read about the adventures of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who worked among fishermen in a very cold, icy place way up north called Newfoundland and Labrador . . . It was many years later, during my student-nursing days at Columbia-Presbyterian, that I really learned what the Grenfell Mission was all about. I was intrigued at the thought of, someday, using my nursing skills there. After graduating in 1951, I remained at the medical centre for another year of nursing experience. In that time, I had gotten tired of the large city and yearned for a more adventurous working environment. Those earlier seeds about the Grenfell persona had sprouted. In the summer of 1952, I met with the International Grenfell Association secretary and signed up as an assistant nurse in St. Anthony. The seed that had been planted so many years before had finally blossomed and would lead me to great adventures. Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse is a riveting collection of stories that share the experiences of a Grenfell nurse in the early 1950s in the subarctic climate of Newfoundland and Labrador: a train wreck, a dogsled trip, the delivery of a baby on board a coastal steamship, a harrowing sailing experience, a near-shipwreck in gale-force winds, and much more!

Silk Stocking Mats

Silk Stocking Mats
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 209
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780773525061
ISBN-13 : 0773525068
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Silk Stocking Mats by : Paula Laverty

Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings, dyed in soft hues, is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats highly collectible folk art. In Silk Stocking Mats, Paula Laverty chronicles the development of a local craft into an art form. For generations Newfoundland women had augmented their family's unreliable fishing income with a "matting season" in February and March. Through the Grenfell Mission's Industrial Department, set up in 1909 to help develop cottage industries, the mat industry became an increasingly important source of income reaching peak production in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the women's mats became renowned for their strong design, meticulous craftsmanship, and distinctive northern images chronicling life in the north. Reindeer, sled dog teams, polar bears, schooners, outports, and florals are but a few of the mat designs.Silk Stocking Mats is the result of over seventeen years of exhaustive research and draws on personal interviews with older women who recall their hooking days, the study of hundreds of archival documents, and careful examination of countless Grenfell hooked mats. Laverty's book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and descriptions including rare and unusual as well as common mat designs.

The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell

The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547121671
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by : Dillon Wallace

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell" by Dillon Wallace. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Labrador, the Country and the People

Labrador, the Country and the People
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Publisher : New York : The Macmillan Company
Total Pages : 662
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015027956575
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Labrador, the Country and the People by : Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Forty Years for Labrador

Forty Years for Labrador
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066369910
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Forty Years for Labrador by : Wilfred T. Grenfell

"Forty Years for Labrador" by Wilfred T. Grenfell is a memoir in which the author tells the story of his life in Labrador. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland where he fell in love with the ambiance and the people who call this part of Canada home. This book, in fact, discusses some of the patients and citizens he interacted with while operating his practice.