Grenfell of Labrador: A Biography

by Ronald Rompkey

Overview

When the 23-year-old British Doctor Wilfred Grenfell first set foot in Newfoundland in 1892, bent upon serving migrant fishermen, he had no clear idea who his patients were or how they lived there. But his first few weeks on the Labrador coast changed all that. Moved by its natural beauty and the lack of the most elementary comforts, he was seized by a desire for reform and devoted the rest of his life to the task. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, Grenfell would become the instrument of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic and a beloved symbol of unselfish service.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773575196
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	04/24/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

RONALD ROMPKEY is Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Editorial Reviews

Grenfell began his career as a doctor in Newfoundland in 1892 and proceeded to found a network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and home industries that exists in a modified form to this day. His life and the cultural and political context of his accomplishments are Rompkey's subjects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

A portrait of a complex man whose genius was made of equal parts of maddening child and authoritarian adult, Victorian dreamer and twentieth-century achiever.' - Timothy Findley, Globe and Mail

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