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GRENFELL
(Sir Wilfred Thomason, 1865-1940, Medical Missionary & Author, founded the Labrador Medical Mission)
Fine signature inscribed “Labrador” and dated
20th March
Grenfell was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and other topics. The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen sent Grenfell to Newfoundland in 1892 to improve the plight of coastal inhabitants and fishermen. That mission began in earnest in 1892 when he recruited two nurses and two doctors for hospitals at Indian Harbour, Labrador and later opened cottage hospitals along the coast of Labrador. The mission expanded greatly from its initial mandate to one of developing schools, an orphanage, cooperatives, industrial work projects, and social work. Although founded to serve the local area, the mission developed to include the aboriginal peoples and settlers along the coasts of Labrador and the eastern side of the Great Northern Peninsula of western Newfoundland.
Item Date:
1914
Stock No:
42097
£125
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