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Labrator experiences narrated. The incidents told are all actual, but the name of every single person and place has been changed. Illustrated from drawings by Dr. GrenjeiU. Provenance: Signature of Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell on ffep (born Feb. 28, 1865, Parkgate, Cheshire, Eng. died Oct. 9, 1940, Charlotte, Vt., U.S.), English medical missionary who was the tireless benefactor of the people of Labrador. Grenfell was impressed by the sermons of the American evangelist Dwight L. Moody and, in the same year, joined the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. During the next five years he served as surgeon on the first hospital ship dispatched to the North Sea fisheries, and in 1892 he initiated missionary service to the fishermen of Labrador. He founded the International Grenfell Association, with branches in England, the United States, Newfoundland, and other parts of Canada. Largely because of this organization s efforts, there existed in Labrador when Grenfell retired (1932) 6 hospitals, 4 hospital ships, 7 nursing stations, 2 orphanages, 2 large schools, 14 industrial centres, and a cooperative lumber mill. He was knighted in 1927. Dust jacket with small chips and soiling is protected in removable transparency. 5" - 7½". Seller Inventory # 277224
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