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A Labrador Doctor / The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Chapter 34: INDEX
By Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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An autobiographical account traces a physician’s life from childhood and medical training through decades of work along a remote Atlantic coast, recounting clinical practice, sea voyages, and community-building projects. It describes interactions with local populations, establishment of co-operative stores, a mill, an orphanage, educational initiatives, and experiments in reindeer husbandry, alongside dramatic episodes such as an ice-pan survival and wartime service. Interwoven are practical concerns of fisheries, transport by dog teams, lectures and fundraising tours, and personal reflections on faith, marriage, and the future direction of the mission work.



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  • Agriculture, in Labrador, unsuccessful, 217, 290.
  • Alaska, reindeer experiment in, 291, 294-295.
  • Albert, the, hospital ship of Dr. Grenfell, 125, 188, 189.
  • Among the Deep-Sea Fishers, magazine, 280.
  • Andrews, Dr. Joseph, eye-specialist, 357.
  • Archibald, Sir William, chairman of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, 362.
  • Armstrong, Dr. Seymour, his work at St. Anthony, 367.
  • Arnold, Thomas, of Rugby, 14.
  • Athletics, Grenfell's fondness of, 21, 32, 44, 50, 51, 53, 81, 424.

  • Bailey, Florence, nurse, 326.
  • Barnett, Samuel, of Mile End, head of Toynbee House, 83.
  • Barter system, the evils of, 131, 132, 133-138, 215-217.
  • Bartlett, Captain, father of "Captain Bob," 136.
  • Battle Harbour, Newfoundland, site of hospital, 126, 162, 165, 169, 193.
  • Beattie, Arthur, 192.
  • Beetz, Mr., 239.
  • Begbie, Harold, Twice-Born Men, 101.
  • Bell, Dr. Alexander Graham, 338.
  • Belle Isle, the Straits of, Labrador, 126, 127, 140, 250.
  • Besant, Mrs. Annie, associated with Charles Bradlaugh, 81, 82.
  • Blandford, Captain Samuel, 159, 172.
  • Bobardt, Dr. Arthur, 126, 159-162.
  • Booth, Walter, of New York, 370, 371.
  • Bowditch, William, 275.
  • Boys' Brigade, the, 101, 353.
  • Bradlaugh, Charles, religious radical, 81-82.

  • Cabot, John, 120.
  • Carpenter, Rev. C.C., 241, 242.
  • Carrel, Dr. Alexis, in France, 397.
  • Cartier, Jacques, 158.
  • Cartwright, George, 158.
  • Catholic Cadet Corps, the, 159, 353.
  • Cattle-raising in Labrador unsuccessful, 290.
  • Cawardine, Miss, nurse, 126.
  • Charity, prophylactic, more important than remedial, 235.
  • Cheever, Colonel David, 389.
  • Chester, England, birthplace of Grenfell, 1, 2.
  • Chidley, Cape, Labrador, 164, 207, 208.
  • Children's Home, the, 244-253.
  • Church Lads Brigade, the, 159, 353.
  • Clark, Sir Andrew, doctor, 65.
  • Cluett, George B., of Troy, N.Y., 347, 348.
  • Cook, Captain, 128, 340, 341.
  • Coöperative system, the, 215-225.
  • Corner, the, magazine, 242.
  • Crookhaven, seat of a dispensary and social centre, 107.
  • Crowe, Harry, lumber operator, 370.
  • Curtis, Dr. Charles, 408.
  • Curtis, Lieutenant Roger, quoted, 158.
  • Curwen, Dr. Elliott, 126.
  • Curzon-Howe, Lady, 191.
  • Curzon-Howe, Lord, 191.
  • Cutter, Marion, librarian, 266.

  • Daly, Professor Reginald, head of Department of Geology at Harvard University, quoted, 157, 158.
  • Dampier, William, 191.
  • Davis Inlet, Labrador, 154, 155.
  • Dawson, Sir Betrand, 388.
  • Dee, the River, 2, 4.
  • Delano, Eugene, head of Brown Brothers, bankers, 358.
  • Denominationalism, evils of, 264, 269, 353.
  • Dogs, Labrador, ferocity of, 198, 289, 290.
  • Domino Run, Labrador, natural harbour, 120.
  • Drake, Sir Francis, 191.
  • Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada, 382.
  • Durand, Mrs. Charles, aunt of Mrs. Grenfell, 336.

  • Education in Labrador: schools denominational, 254, 269;
    • Grenfell's school, 257-264;
    • moving libraries, 266;
    • founding of undenominational boarding school, 268.
  • Edward VII, King, Grenfell's private audience with, 284, 285.
  • Edwards, Antiguan lecturer of the Christian Evidence Society, 82, 84, 85.
  • Emily Beaver Chamberlain Memorial Hospital, 404.
  • English, Robert, of Yale College, 277, 278.
  • Eskimos, the, Grenfell's work with, 129-136;
    • original natives of Labrador, 140, 141;
    • Valentine, king of, 155;
    • suffering of, 155.
  • Evans, John, worker at St. Anthony, 405.

  • Fallon, Dr. Louis, 405.
  • Faroë Islands, the, 184.
  • Fenwick, Harry, 69.
  • "Fisher Lads' Letter-Writing Association," 97.
  • Fishermen's Institute, 183.
  • Ford, George, factor of Hudson Bay Company, 141, 155, 242, 277, 327.
  • Fox Farm, at St. Anthony, 238-240.

  • George V, King, 352, 353.
  • Gladstone, W.E., 106.
  • Gosling, Mrs. W.E., 370.
  • Gould, Albert, volunteer helper of Grenfell, 318, 321.
  • Great Cop, the, 4.
  • Greenshields, Julia, editor of Among the Deep-Sea Fishers, 280.
  • Grenfell, Algernon, brother of W.T.G., 7, 8, 9, 10.
  • Grenfell, Algernon Sydney, father of W.T.G., 8, 9, 11, 12.
  • Grenfell, Cecil, brother of W.T.G., 7.
  • Grenfell, Kinloch Pascoe, son of W.T.G., 342.
  • Grenfell, Maurice, brother of W.T.G., 7.
  • Grenfell, Pascoe, of Bank of England, 161.
  • Grenfell, Rosamond Loveday, daughter of W.T.G., 342.
  • Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, birth, 1;
    • ancestry, 1, 2;
    • early days, 2-14;
    • school life, 15-36;
    • study of natural objects, 34-36;
    • choice of medical profession, 37-39;
    • college life, 41-44;
    • interest in athletics, 44;
    • religious awakening, 44-46;
    • Sunday-school class and slum work, 46-53;
    • summer cruises, 53-57;
    • camping with boys, 57-63;
    • germination of democratic tendencies, 63;
    • interne in London Hospital, 64-87;
    • father's death, 73;
    • humanitarian ideals, 78, 79;
    • hatred of liquor traffic, 79;
    • association with religious radicals in East London, 81-86;
    • cosmopolitan life, 85;
    • member of College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons of England, 87;
    • first work in fisheries of North Sea, 88-98;
    • his religion intensely social, 99-101;
    • medical officer in boys' summer-camps, 102, 103;
    • development of work in North Sea and off Irish coast, 104-114;
    • preparation and departure for America, 113-118;
    • first summer in Labrador, 119-125;
    • success in Labrador, 125;
    • return to England, 126;
    • second voyage to Labrador, 126;
    • founding of cottage hospitals, 126;
    • visits to Moravian Brethren and work among Eskimos, 128-138;
    • lecturing and soliciting in southern Newfoundland and Canada, 159-162;
    • cruising north, 163-170;
    • experience with seal fishery, 173-182;
    • trip to Iceland, 183-187;
    • holiday with Treves on Scilly Islands, 187, 188;
    • third voyage to Newfoundland, 192, 193;
    • requested to establish a winter station at St. Anthony, 194;
    • winter at St. Anthony, 197-214;
    • institution of coöperative system, 218-225;
    • institution of saw-mill in North Newfoundland, 226-238;
    • fox farm at St. Anthony, 238, 239;
    • founding of The Children's Home, 244;
    • founding of common school, 257-265;
    • moving libraries, 266;
    • arrangement of two-cent postal rate, 281, 282;
    • awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine of Oxford, 282;
    • received honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in America, 283;
    • received Companionship in the Order of St. Michael and St. George, 284;
    • reindeer experiment, 288-303;
    • propaganda lecturing in England, 331, 332;
    • courtship, 333-337;
    • enlargement of St. Anthony Hospital, 338, 339;
    • marriage and family, 342, 343;
    • assumption of coöperative store debt, 344-347;
    • founding of Institute at St. John's, 349-353;
    • lecture tour in U.S. and England, 357-361;
    • lecture tour again, 371-374;
    • holiday in Asia Minor, 376-382;
    • winter at base hospital in France (1915), 384-402;
    • attacked by a St. John's newspaper, 403;
    • growth and development of Mission, 404-410;
    • religious life, 424-434.
  • Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Jr., 342.
  • Grenfell Association of America, the, 280.
  • Grenfell Town, 161.
  • Grieve, Dr. John, 404.

  • Haldane, Lord, 256.
  • Halifax, visited by Grenfell, 159.
  • Hare, Dr. Mather, work at Harrington, 275-276, 409.
  • Harrington Hospital, Canadian Labrador, 418.
  • Hause, Mr., of Pratt Institute, volunteer student helper, 325.
  • Hearn longliners and trawlers, 183.
  • Heligoland, visited by Grenfell, 90.
  • Henley, or Château, Labrador, 168.
  • Henson, Dr. Hensley, Bishop of Hereford, 83, 84.
  • Home, the Children's, 244-253.
  • Hopedale, Labrador, 128, 131.
  • Horsley, Sir Victor, doctor, 72.
  • Hot-heads, launches used in open sea, 275-279.
  • Hudson Bay Company, the, 133, 216, 276, 376.
  • Huxley, Professor, his criticism of English public school teaching, 40.
  • Hyères, France, 24.

  • Iceland, 183-187.
  • Illiteracy, in Newfoundland and Labrador, 255.
  • Indian Harbour, site of one of Grenfell's hospitals, 126.
  • Indian Tickle, Labrador, site of a church built by Labrador Mission, 165.
  • Ingram, Rt. Rev. A.F. Winnington, Bishop of London, 83, 84.
  • International Grenfell Association the, formation of, 358-359.
  • Ireland, Archbishop, 268.
  • Irish Poor-Relief Board, 109.
  • Irving, Sir Henry, 80.

  • Jackson, Rev. Dr. Sheldon, Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, 290.
  • Job, the Honourable W.C., 403.
  • Job, Mrs. W.C., 370.
  • Jones, Rev. Dr. Edgar, 268.
  • Jones, Sir Robert, orthopedic surgeon. 359, 360, 385, 388.
  • Jones, Mr. Walter, manager of Institute at St. John's, 367.
  • Julia Sheriden, the, Mission steamer, 193, 196.

  • Kean, Captain, of the S.S. Wolf, 180, 181.
  • Keese, Ruth (Mrs. John Mason Little, Jr.), 405.
  • Kingsley, Charles, 2, 103, 187, 256.
  • Komatik, description of a, 202, 203.

  • Labrador, the Country and the People, 139.
  • Labrador, inhabitants of, 139, 140;
  • Lake Forest, on Lake Michigan, Mrs. Grenfell's home, 336.
  • Lapps, 292-294.
  • Leacock, Stephen, his essay, How to Become a Doctor, 144, 145.
  • Leslie, Olive, kindergartner, 260.
  • Lewis Bay, Labrador, winter hospital station at, 404.
  • Lighthouses, at Battle Harbour, 273;
    • at White Point, 274;
    • at Indian Harbour, 274.
  • Liquor traffic, the, Grenfell's hatred of, 79;
    • his suppression of, at St. Anthony, 209-214;
    • at St. John's, 353-356.
  • Lister, Sir Joseph, 70.
  • Little, Dr. John Mason, 338, 404, 406, 417.
  • Lloyd, Dr., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, 382.
  • Lodge, Sir Oliver, 430, 431.
  • London Hospital and University, Grenfell's father chaplain of, 37;
    • Grenfell's alma mater, 39.
  • Loti, Pierre, 186.
  • Luther, Jessie, 422.

  • MacAusland, Dr. W.R., of Boston, 381.
  • MacClanahan, Anna Elizabeth Caldwell (Mrs. W.T. Grenfell), 336.
  • MacClanahan, Colonel, father-in-law of Grenfell, 336.
  • MacGregor, Sir William, Governor of Newfoundland, 291, 320-323.
  • Mackenzie, Sir Stephen, 66.
  • Marlborough School, 15-24, 27, 30-33.
  • Marquis of Ripon, Minister to the Colonies, 286.
  • Mason, A.E.W., novelist, 187.
  • Matheson, Paul, volunteer helper of Grenfell, 318.
  • McCook, Colonel Anson G., 281, 282.
  • McGrath, Sir Patrick, 382.
  • Methodist guards, the, 159, 353.
  • Meyer, Hon. George von L., Postmaster-General, 281, 282.
  • Mill, the, on the "French Shore," Newfoundland, 326-238.
  • Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, 90.
  • Montreal, visited by Grenfell, 160, 161.
  • Moody, Dwight L., evangelist, 45, 427.
  • Moravian Brethren, the, their work with the Eskimos, 128, 129, 130, 132, 140, 156, 207.
  • Moravian Mission, 129-132.
  • Muir, Ethel Gordon, teacher, 267.
  • Murchison Prize, awarded Grenfell by the Royal Geographical Society, in 1911, 323.

  • Nain, Labrador, 130, 132.
  • Nakvak, Labrador, 141;
    • remains of Tunits there, 155.
  • Napatuliarasok Island, Labrador, noted for its Labradorite, 156.
  • Nasson Institute, 264.
  • Needlework Guild of America, the, 251, 419.
  • Newfoundland, independent colony of England, 139;
    • Labrador owned by, 139;
    • difference between North and South Newfoundland, 250.
  • Nielsen, Adolph, Superintendent of Fisheries off Labrador, 117.

  • O'Brien, Sir Terence, governor at St. John's, 117, 171.

  • Paddon, Dr. and Mrs., 404, 405.
  • Parkhurst, Dr. Charles H., of New York, 280.
  • Peary, Admiral, return of from North Pole, 339-342.
  • Pomiuk, Prince, Eskimo, 241-243.
  • Pratt Institute, 256, 258, 264.
  • Presbyterian Highland Brigade, the, 353.
  • Prince Edward Island, 240.
  • Princess May, the midget steam launch, 127, 128.
  • Public School Camps, 101.

  • R.A.M.C., efficiency of in France, 398-400.
  • Raymond, Sir Oliver Lodge, 430, 431.
  • Red Bay, Labrador, 218.
  • Red Bay Coöperative Store, 219.
  • Reed, William Howell, of Boston, 292.
  • Reikyavik, capital of Iceland, 184.
  • Reindeer experiment, the, 290-303.
  • Ripon, Marquis of, 159.
  • Rivington, Sir Walter, surgeon, 70.
  • Roddick, Sir Thomas, 162.
  • Roosevelt, the, Peary's ship, 340, 341.
  • Rowland, John, of Yale College, 277, 278.

  • St. Anthony, Newfoundland, 141;
    • poverty of people, 194, 195;
    • Grenfell's first winter in, 197-214;
    • Grenfell's fight against liquor traffic, 209-214;
    • headquarters of hospital stations, 417.
  • St. John's, burning of, 115, 116;
    • seat of Newfoundland government, 139.
  • Sands of Dee, the, 1-7.
  • Sayre, Francis B., secretary of Grenfell, 250, 338, 339, 341, 342, 374, 375.
  • Scilly Islands, 187.
  • Seal Fishery, the, 172-182.
  • Seyde Fjord, Iceland, visited by Grenfell, 186, 187.
  • Sheard, Mr., 404.
  • Sir Donald, the, mission steamer, 161, 190, 191, 208.
  • Skiff, Captain, 183.
  • Sloggett, Sir Arthur, general, 385, 398, 399.
  • Smith, George Adam, quoted, 429.
  • Southborough, Lord (Mr. Francis Hopwood), 113.
  • Spalding, Katie, of The Children's Home, 251, 253.
  • Spencer, Martyn, 290, 370.
  • Stewart, Dr. and Mrs. Norman, 405.
  • Stirling, W.R., 333, 337, 348, 407.
  • Storr, Eleanor, of The Children's Home, 250, 253.
  • Strathcona, Lord (Donald Smith), patron of Labrador Mission, 160, 161;
    • donor of the Strathcona, 191, 376.
  • Studd, J.E. and C.T., 45.
  • Sutton, Dr., London Hospital, 69.

  • Terschelling, visited by Grenfell, 90.
  • Tickle, the Grenfell, 209.
  • Tigris, the S.S., of the Polaris expedition, 178.
  • Tilt Cove, Newfoundland, 192, 193.
  • Toilers of the Deep, The, magazine, 280.
  • Tralee, on Kerry coast, seat of a dispensary, 107.
  • Treves, Sir Frederick, lecturer in anatomy and surgery in London Hospital and University, 43, 67-69, 88, 187, 254, 285, 388;
    • The Cradle of the Deep, 187.
  • Trevize, skipper, 114.
  • Truck Acts, 96.

  • Ungava Bay, Labrador, 164, 208.

  • Van Dyke, Dr. Henry, 362.
  • Vestmann Islands, Iceland, visited by Grenfell, 184.
  • Victoria, Queen, 104
  • Victoria Park, London, 81-82.

  • Wakefield, Dr. Arthur, of England, 368, 369.
  • Wall Street Journal, quoted, 294, 295.
  • Watson, the Honourable Robert, 403.
  • Wellington, Duke of, 187.
  • West, Dr., 275, 409.
  • White, Emma E., secretary of Labrador Mission in Boston, 279, 324.
  • White Bay, Labrador, 148.
  • Whitechapel Road, site of London Hospital, 40.
  • Whitney, Harry, 340.
  • Williams, Miss, nurse, 126.
  • Williams, George, 364, 365.
  • Williams, Sir Ralph, governor of Newfoundland, 350-352.
  • Willway, Dr., colleague of Grenfell, 169.
  • Wilson, Jessie, daughter of President Wilson, 374, 375.
  • Wiltsie, Dr., his work in Labrador, 363, 364.
  • Wolf, the S.S., wreck of, 180, 181.

  • Yarmouth, institute for fishermen ashore, and dispensary vessel, 105.
  • Y.M.C.A. in St. John's, 353;