Wilfred Grenfell

Author : Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664568755

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Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Pdf

'Adrift on an Ice Pan' is a riveting tale of survival and determination, written by one of the most famous doctors in Labrador's history. On Easter Sunday, 1908, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell embarked on a perilous journey to save a young boy's life, but ended up stranded on an ice pan with his dogs after the ice beneath them broke. In this gripping autobiographical account, Grenfell details his harrowing experience of surviving a day and night on the ice, enduring frostbite and snow blindness, and making a desperate final attempt to save his life.

Author : Jennifer J. Connor,Katherine Side
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773555808

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The Grenfell Medical Mission by Jennifer J. Connor,Katherine Side Pdf

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.

Author : Linda Finlayson
Publisher : Christian Focus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : Missionaries, Medical
ISBN : 1857929292

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Wilfred Grenfell by Linda Finlayson Pdf

Wilfred had many experiences as a missionary and medic in the frozen wastelands of Labrador and Newfoundland. Come and take part in the adventure.

Author : Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher : Halifax, NS : Nimbus Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
ISBN : 1551093928

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The Best of Wilfred Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Pdf

These are life and death stories from the skilled pen of a legend, Doctor Wilfred Grenfell. This compilation captures some of the best and most stirring of Grenfell's many books and articles about his mission to the outports of Newfoundland and Labrador and includes the famous true account "Adrift on an Ice Pan."

Author : Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher : New York : The Macmillan Company
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
ISBN : UOM:39015027956575

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Labrador, the Country and the People by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Pdf

Author : Wilfred T. Grenfell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066369910

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Forty Years for Labrador by Wilfred T. Grenfell Pdf

"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.

Author : Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1289871469

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Labrador by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher : Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Eskimos
ISBN : HARVARD:32044029893013

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A Labrador Doctor by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Pdf

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

Author : Milton Wilfred Grenfell
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393733009

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Comparative Architectural Details by Milton Wilfred Grenfell Pdf

Architectural details indispensable to everyone in the drafting room today.

Author : Rosalie M. Lombard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771175974

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Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse by Rosalie M. Lombard Pdf

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!

Author : Tom Moore
Publisher : CNIB
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0889026777

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Wilfred Grenfell by Tom Moore Pdf

When Wilfred Grenfell, an English doctor, arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 he found fishermen and their families living in squalor and dying from malnutrition and disease. As a man not afraid to upset the established way of doing things, Grenfell was determined to help. He started by setting up a hospital at Battle Harbour. Other hospitals followed, as well as nursing stations, orphanages, and a travelling library. He made enemies along the way, especially among the local merchants when he helped fishermen set up their own co-operative stores. As the great doctor himself acknowledged, he brought healing to Newfoundland and Labrador, but no one welcomed him except the people he served.

Author : Ronald Rompkey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773577657

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Grenfell of Labrador by Ronald Rompkey Pdf

When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties faced by those who lived there, Grenfell devoted the rest of his life to improving theirs. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman, Grenfell became part of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Raising funds in Canada and the United States, he founded a network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and home industries that exists in a modified form to this day. In 1908, the story of his survival after a night marooned on a drifting patch of ice transformed him into a popular hero. He eventually became one of the most successful lecturers of his time. Ronald Rompkey tells the story of Grenfell's education, his Anglo-Saxonism, and his devotion to broader issues of hygiene and public health. Above all, Rompkey shows that Grenfell went beyond being a doctor or a missionary to become a cultural politician who intervened in a colonial culture. Grenfell of Labrador provides a vivid picture of the man himself and the social movements through which he worked.

Author : Joseph Banks Rhine
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465579591

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Extra-sensory Perception by Joseph Banks Rhine Pdf

Author : Paula Laverty
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773525061

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Silk Stocking Mats by Paula Laverty Pdf

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.

Author : Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Christian life
ISBN : OCLC:155159588

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What Christ Means to Me by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Pdf