Related Books

Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Jessie Luther
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Strongly influenced by the arts and crafts movement, the New England artist Jessie Luther began her crafts career as director of the Labor Museum at Hull House,
Silk Stocking Mats
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Paula Laverty
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-04 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador! The creative recycling of tattered sto
Restoring the Spirit
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Judith Friedland
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The untold story of early-twentieth-century women's role in developing an essential area of health care.
The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Jennifer J. Connor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-30 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them American
Grenfell of Labrador
Language: en
Pages: 623
Authors: Ronald Rompkey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-24 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients