Sir Wilfred Grenfell Hand Signed Letter....Medical Missionary To Newfoundland.

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Sir Wilfred Grenfell Hand Signed Letter....Medical Missionary To Newfoundland.:
$63.62

8.25 x 11 letter which is on Wilfred Grenfell\'s personal stationery...
Hand signed as well as a few written lines on bottom edge in fountain pen...
Letter has been folded in thirds vertically and in half horizontally...small nick on left hand edge...
.Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell,KCMG(28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a medicalmissionarytoNewfoundland

sent Grenfell toin 1892 to improve the plight of coastal inhabitants and fishermen.That mission began in earnest in 1892when he recruited two nurses and two doctors for hospitals atand 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 theof northern Newfoundland.One of the children Grenfell assisted was angirl,, for whom he helped secure artificial limbs and later theeducated her in nursing and midwifery.

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In 1907, Grenfell imported a group of 300from Norway to provide food and serve as draft animals in Newfoundland. Unbeknownst to him, some of the animals carried a parasitic,, that then spread to nativeherds. The reindeer herd eventually disappeared; however, the parasite took hold and causes(CSE) in caribou, a disease well known in reindeer in rangifericariboucerebrospinal elaphostrongylosis

In 1908, Grenfell was on his way with his dogs to a Newfoundland village for a medical emergency when he got caught in, from which he managed to get onto an ice-pan with the dogs. He was forced to sacrifice some of his dogs to make a fur coat for himself. After drifting for several hours without food or fresh water, he was rescued by some villagers in the area.

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By 1914 the mission had gained international status. In order to manage its property and affairs, the International Grenfell Association, a non-profit mission society, was founded to support Grenfell\'s work. The Association operated until 1981, as an. It had responsibility for delivery of healthcare and social services in northern Newfoundland and Labrador. After 1981 a governmental agency, The Grenfell Regional Health Services Board, took over the operational responsibility. The International Grenfell Association, having divested itself of all properties and operational responsibility for health and social services, boarding schools, hospitals then became a supporting association making grants and funding scholarships for medical training. For his years of service on behalf of the people of these communities he was later knighted by the King in 1927. In 1931, Grenfell had a small speaking role in the film,, in which he narrated the film\'s prologue and gave a brief statement of the tragic circumstances involving the film\'s production. During the production of the film, which was filmed on location in Newfoundland, producerfelt that the film needed more action sequences and set out on the ice floes to film them. During filming, the ship, SS Viking on which filming was taking place, exploded killing Frissell and 27 others.

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A unique figure, Grenfell served to inspire at least two characters in Canadian literature: Dr. Luke in\'s(1904) and Dr. Tocsin inby(1972).

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A biography for children (middle-high school) was written in 1942, by. Published byThe book had second and third printings as well.

Genevieve FoxThomas Y. Crowell Co.

The following statement has been widely ascribed to him, but cannot be found in any of his books: \"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not \'to have and to hold\' but \'to give and serve.\' There can be no other meaning.\"

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