Adrift on an Ice-Pan - Softcover

Grenfell Sir, Wilfred Thomason

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Synopsis

One of the popular works written by the well-known doctor, Wilfred T. Grenfell. Sir Wilfred Grenfell is a legend in Newfoundland and Labrador. He arrived from England in 1892 to investigate the lives of the people who fished on "the Labrador." He found poverty and destitution, and decided to change it. Through his tireless efforts - fund raising, building hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and more - Dr. Grenfell enriched the lives of thousands of people.

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Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Labrador in 1892 as the agent of the National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. His immediate task was to provide a system of medical care for migratory fishermen living apart from their Newfoundland communities. But in the course of his life, Grenfell proceeded to build a complex medical and philanthropic organization that still bears his name a century later. By 1908, he had already laid the foundation for a missionary domain with its headquarters in St. Anthony and was expanding his influence through home industries and other social reforms designed to transform the region economically.

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