Author: Jennifer J. Connor
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773555803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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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: Paddon, W. A.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9781550283044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Autobiography of William Anthony Paddon who worked for more than 30 years as a pioneer doctor with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador.
Author: Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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'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: Paula Laverty
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773525068
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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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: Ronald Rompkey
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773569154
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs of St Anthony and life in the household of the Grenfell workers. After she left Newfoundland, Luther became one of the pioneers of occupational therapy in the United States, spending the rest of her professional life as director of occupational therapy at the Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Edited by Ronald Rompkey, author of the most authoritative biography of Grenfell, Luther's journal provides an unusually intimate account of Wilfred Grenfell during these four years B his idiosyncracies, his attempts to meet the needs of the community, his rescue from a floating ice pan, his marriage B and brings to life the Newfoundlanders with whom she worked.
Author: Jessie Luther
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773521766
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Strongly influenced by the arts and crafts movement, the New England artist Jessie Luther began her crafts career as director of the Labor Museum at Hull House, Chicago, at the invitation of the social reformer Jane Addams. In 1906, she was recruited by Dr Wilfred Grenfell, the medical missionary, to teach weaving to women at St Anthony, a small community at the northern tip of Newfoundland, and for four years she painstakingly laid the groundwork for a variety of craft industries. Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission is an annotated edition of a travel journal that Luther wrote from 1906 to 1910.
Author: Ronald Rompkey
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 623
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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: William Anthony Paddon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781459327320
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Author: Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
ISBN:
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Author: Wilfred Thomason Sir Grenfell
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Labrador Doctor" (The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell) by Wilfred Thomason Sir Grenfell. 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.
