Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason Sir

Popular account of life in Labrador in the early twentieth century.

Collection of quotations and passages from various sources which helped the author.

Autobiography of Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell. He was born Feb. 28, 1865 in Parkgate, Cheshire, England. He was a British medical missionary and began his service in Labrador in 1892. He married Anne MacClanahan of Lake Forest, Illinois in 1909. They lived in St. Anthony, Newfoundland where they had three children. Contains much information on the medical work of Sir Grenfell among the Labrador fishermen and other humanitarian efforts in Labrador.

Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's harrowing tale of near-death on the ice of northern Newfoundland. How does a man save his own life? In 1908 Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, a medical missionary in northern Newfoundland, was traveling by dog team to treat a patient. In his haste Grenfell took a short cut across the sea ice. A change of wind and ice conditions left the doctor and his sled dogs stranded on an ice pan, their komatik and provisions lost. Grenfell came close to perishing. Adrift on an ice pan is Grenfell's own account of this near-fatal misadventure. He survived dauntingly cold and seemingly hopeless conditions through an inventive presence of mind and by sacrificing and skinning three of his sled dogs to clothe himself against the elements. Because of his tenacity and quick thinking, and that of his rescuers, Grenfell endured.