Forty years for Labrador / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell ...

Main entry:

Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.

Title & Author:

Forty years for Labrador / by Sir Wilfred Grenfell ...

Publication:

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.

Description:

viii pages [3]-372 pages : front, plates, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
"'A Labrador doctor' written many years ago ... [has been] brought as closely up to date as the writer of any autobiography can expect to bring it ... The records of childhood and youth must stand unchanged. Otherwise the entire book has been rewritten."--Preface
Includes index.

Summary:

Autobiography of Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell. He was born Feb. 28, 1865 in Parkgate, Cheshire, England. He was a British medical missionary and began his service in Labrador in 1892. He married Anne MacClanahan of Lake Forest, Illinois in 1909. They lived in St. Anthony, Newfoundland where they had three children. Contains much information on the medical work of Sir Grenfell among the Labrador fishermen and other humanitarian efforts in Labrador.

Subject:

Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
Physicians.
Medicine
Médecins missionnaires Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador Biographies.
Médecins.
physicians.
Missions, Medical Newfoundland Labrador.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador (N.L.)
Canada, Newfoundland, Labrador History.

Form/genre:

Autobiographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 91821
Call No.: PO11097
Status: Available

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