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Adirft on an Ice Pan
Wilfred Grenfell, and Ronald Rompkey
Price: CDN$5.95
History 1992
ISBN 1-895387-13-2
72 pages, 4.25" x 7"
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Originally published by Grenfell in 1909, this book tells the dramatic story of his brush with death on an ice pan off the northern coast of Newfoundland. Dr. Rompkey's introduction helps to set the scene within the historical context of the man and his ministry.
Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Labrador in 1882 as the agent of
the National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. His immediate
task was to provide a system of medical care for migratory
fishermen living apart from their Newfoundland communities.
But in the course of his life, Grenfell accomplished much
more than that: he proceeded to build a complex medical
and philanthropic organization that still bears his name a
century later. By 1908, he had already laid the foundation
for a missionary domain with its headquarters in St. Anthony
and was expanding his influence through home industries and
other social reforms designed to transform the region
economically.
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