Identifier: newfoundlandin00mcgr (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George V. and the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGrath, P. T. (Patrick Thomas), b. 1868
Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: London : Whitehead, Morris & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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177 hospitals have done a splendid work. The men and women who have been taken in, have been carefully nursed, have been cured of their diseases, and have returned to their homes, deeply grateful. The mission has l)een an immense benefit physically, morally and spiritually. Dr. Grenfell and his assistants go aboutamong the thousand fishermen in the summer, minister-ing* to their physical wants, holding services eitlier onshore or on the sea as the need arises—simple serviceswith nothing at all savouring of creed or denomination—the broad fact of Gods love, which is understood bythese simple people, whom the sea and its solemnmysteries have made reverent. Dr. Grenfells latest undertaking has been tointroduce Lapland reindeer into Labrador, 300 of thesehaving been procured by him some three years ago,which have since increased to 800, and which he has atpresent herded in Northern Labrador until he is ableto transfer them to Labrador, where )>e proposes todistribute them among the l

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