Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell

              DR. WILFRED T. GRENFELL






An Epic Story of the Northland



Patients in Winter on St. Anthony Hospital Balcony




St. Anthony Hospital Station in Winter




Two Reindeer Herders




Dr. Grenfell




Off for a Winter Cruise




Labrador Village




Stopping for a Mug-up






DR. WILFRED T. GRENFELL
A WONDERFULLY HUMAN LECTURE BY A WONDERFULLY HUMAN LECTURER



Hauling Wood with a Reindeer




The Hospital Ship Strathcona




A New Suit for a Labrador Orphan






Winter Dress in Labrador




Fish Stages




Iceberg




Children in the Orphanage






A Remarkable Story of accomplishment in spite of seemingly insurmountable difficulties



Patients and Nurses on Sun Porch




Where Is Our Luncheon?




Dr. Grenfell Operating on Deck of Hospital Ship Strathcona




Eye Patients in the Sun Balcony




Across the Harbor in Winter




A Typical Northern Family




Dr. Grenfell and Two Patients






Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell



I
N presenting the lectures by Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell is unfolded one of the epic stories of work and service in wild and inacessible lands.




The bleak and barren coast of Labrador has made life unbelievably hard for its inhabitants.  The sturdy descendants of Devon and Dorset, Scotch and Irish fishermen, who came over during the last four centuries, have been practically cut off from contact with civilization.  The small resident permanent population is augmented each summer by some twenty thousand deep sea fishermen, coming from Southern Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and the Maine Coast.




Producing their share of the world's wealth these courageous workers, who are of our own race and religion, suffered untold hardships in bleak northlands and waters because the rudimentary accepted perquisites for mind and body were utterly lacking.  Not even the simplest forms of medical and surgical aid were available.





A Pioneer in Aiding the Northlanders



In 1892 at the suggestion of Lord Southborough, Dr. Grenfell first visited the coasts of Labrador and North Newfoundland in a hospital sailing ship so see if a medical and surgical service could be established.




From this simple beginning has grown during the past thirty years one of the great service works of the world.  Devoted and loyal helpers from all over the English speaking world have given their services, and beginning with one small hospital vessel there have grown up along about one thousand miles of coast, a chain of six hospitals, four nursing stations, two orphanages, some small schools, an industrial work, a large Seamen's Institute at St. John's, Newfoundland, a hospital steamer, and a fleet of auxiliary power yawls connected with the various hospital centers. Reindeer have been introduced into the country in order to utilize eventually the immense barren areas of a country useless for agriculture.




When the winter ice cuts off communication with the outside world and the floating population has departed, boats are laid up and part of the hospitals are closed.  Dog teams are then used and long patrols established.  Swathed in wind-proof garments the doctors of the International Grenfell Association and their helpers travel over hundreds of miles of wind-swept and icy barrens, or the frozen bays of the North Atlantic.




The press of the English speaking world for years has eagerly published accounts of this really romantic story.  Unsought honors have been heaped upon Dr. Grenfell.






Distinguished Honors Conferred



England conferred upon him the Order of Companion of St. Michael and St. George.  Oxford gave him the only honorary M. D. which that university has ever bestowed.  He has been made a Fellow of the royal College of Surgeons of England; a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; he is one of the few doctors of medicine holding a Master Mariner's Certificate.  Harvard has given to him its honorary M. A.; Williams its honorary LL. D.; and Toronto an honorary M. D. A few years ago the Royal Geographical Society gave him the Murchison Bequest in recognition of his scientific labors.





LECTURE TOPIC:

MIDST ICE AND SNOW IN LABRADOR



Twenty-five hundred feet of moving picture film illustrating this story of the rugged northland will be used.  Many beautiful stereopticon slides are available.






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BOOKS BY DR. GRENFELL

A Labrador Doctor



The whole tale of Dr. Grenfell's achievements is here presented for the first time in all its details. …  Deeply in earnest and filled with love of his fellowmen as it is, the book fairly ripples with humor. …  It is a wonderful tale, and Dr. Grenfell tells it as successfully as he has lived it.  No one in the least interested in human endeavors to better the world can afford to miss it.—


New York Times.




Labrador Days



These stories give a remarkable insight into the daily lives of the fisher folk of the Labrador coast.  There is much of daring and adventure in them, and there is also inspiring courage, rare unselfishness and heroic self-sacrifice when danger threatens.  Dr. Grenfell, who has devoted his own life to helping these people, interprets with understanding and sympathy their adventurous and little-known life.  $2.00





Adrift on an Ice Pan



There are two joys for the readers of the little book—a joy that a man lives who can go through such an experience with undaunted nerve and perfectly cool heroism, and a joy that the same man can tell the story with the unaffected simplicity of this thoroughly manly account.
—
The Interior.
  $1.25.





Tales of the Labrador



Eleven stories of shipwreck, peril and adventure among the hardy fishermen of Labrador, and of the life, love and hunting of their simple-hearted Eskimo neighbors, told by the missionary doctor whose name is a household word for courage and devotion.  Besides being full of thrilling episodes, the stories give a very vivid picture of life in the Labrador wilds.  $2.00.





The Adventure of Life



For many years these essays have been a source of inspiration to thousands of readers.  Dr. Grenfell's life in the Labrador wilds has been productive of experiences such as have fallen to the lot of few other men, and he writes with a broad humanity, an ability to appeal straight to the heart and mind of every type of reader that is unique.  $1.75.





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