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...Grenfell, C.M.G, will give an illustrated lecture on "Labrador Life," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, not at 7.30 o'clock as was previously announced. The stereopticon views illustrating the lecture will show the animal life, fjords, and mountains of Labrador, and scenes of winter travel by dog-team...
...graduate of King's College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Surgeons, for a time associated with Sir Frederick Treves, King Edward's surgeon, Dr. Grenfell has been engaged in medical and philanthropic work among the inhabitants of Labrador for over 14 years. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship, the "Strathcona" cruises the length of the coast in summer, and during the winter covers great distances with dog-teams in his tours among the sparse and needy population. On one of his voyages he made the first chart of the coast which...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell, C.M.G., will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Life in Labrador" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock...
...graduate of King's College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Grenfell has been engaged in medical work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador for over 14 years. In the summer he has cruised the length of the coast in his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona," in winter making long tours with his dog-teams. He has recently been made a companion of St. Michael and St. George by the King of England for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell gave this lecture in the Union two years ago, and showed himself peculiarly well-fitted to treat...
...Grenfell has made the welfare of Labrador and its inhabitants a life work. He has charge of four hospitals, and by means of his hospital ship and his dog-teams, he covers great distances in his tours among the sparse and needy population. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon, a mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression, and the drink evil which finds peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk...