Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Lindsay, a Grenfell Mission worker, was teaching school at Cartwright, Labrador, a village some fifty miles south of Indian Harbor, where I was spending the summer. Thus I happen to know the facts in the case. She left one morning, with her bathing suit, saying she would not be back for lunch. Not appearing at supper time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that...
...idea of abduction by a wild, wandering tribe of Eskimos is ridiculous. In the first place those Eskimos now left on the Labrador are as peaceful a race as can well be found anywhere. Secondly with the possible exception of the Hudson Straits region, some six hundred miles north of Cartwright, Labrador has no wandering tribes of Eskimos. Labrador Eskimos live in scattered villages along the coast, of which only some very small ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this...
...Harvard Mission Committee has been notified of the need of three men for service in Labrador this summer. The Grenfell Mission wishes two men with knowledge of sailing and motorboat engines, while--the Reverend William Stride of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, also needs a volunteer with some experience in running engines...
...mission wishes the two men to take their motor-yawl, the "Northern Messenger", from Battle Harbor, on the Newfoundland Labrador to Harrington on the Canadian Labrador, a distance of about 250 miles. They will be needed for this work in the latter half of June, and, after taking the boat to Harrington will remain there throughout the summer as volunteer workers...
...activities of the Mission during the winter and early spring periods have centered mainly about the endeavor to interest men directly in the work. Towards this end the committee has taken an active interest in the cause of the Grenfell Mission in Labrador and a new member has been added to conduct this part of the work, E. K. Merrill '34, who has had some actual experience in the Labrador work. Articles have been put in the CRIMSON and interviews have been held with men interested in the work. An effort was made to obtain Bishop Charles H. Brent...