Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fishing population of Labrador is a curious mixture of English, French, and other foreign nationalities, congregating together at times in great fleets of fishing schooners. These vessels are extremely serviceable and well adapted to their many uses; and, as big gales are very rare, the loss of life at sea is very small. When bad storms do occur at rare intervals, however, whole fleets are sometimes lost, as was the case several years ago when twenty-six schooners were wrecked...
...Grenfell first became interested in medical missions among the fishermen of Labrador in 1892. The suffering of the natives and the intense poverty throughout the fishing settlements led to the gradual establishment of a chain of hospitals, nursing stations, orphanages and co-operative stores along the coast. Communication between the scattered settlements was established by the visits of the mail boat, which now acts also as a hospital ship, collecting patients along the coast and bringing them to the various hospitals where proper care can be taken of them. In connection with the hospital work it is worthy of notice...
...Grenfell spoke of the large opportunities for service in Labrador, and mentioned the fact that at the present time eight Harvard graduates are actively engaged in mission work along the coast. In closing he referred briefly to various other occupations common to the natives and spoke especially of the existence of the whale industry and the methods employed by those engaged...
...Wilfred Thomason Grenfell h. '09 will give an illustrated lecture on "Labrador" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
...necessary for his career. In 1887 he became medical missionary to the North Sea fishermen under the direction of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, and cruised for a number of years about Iceland attending to the needs of the fishermen. Finally, in 1892, he went to Labrador, where he has worked ever since to alleviate the sufferings of the fishermen by building hospitals, co-operative stores, and orphanages...