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...Grenfell of Labrador will give an illustrated lecture on Labrador in the Union on Tuesday, March...
...graduate of Oxford and the Royal College of Surgeons studied medicine with Sir Andrew Clark and was for a time associated with Sir Frederick Treves, King Edward's surgeon. For the last twelve years he has been engaged in medical work among the natives and fishermen of Labrador, cruising in summer the length of the coast in his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona"; and in winter travelling through the country by dog team. He has founded three small hospitals, an industrial school, a mill and several co-operative stores; and plans to build a home for derelict children. His pictures...
...collection of small ivory pieces representing certain phases of life among the Eskimos of Northern Labrador, has recently been purchased by the Peabody Museum. The collection was made by Dr. Grenfell, who has charge of the Deep Sea Mission along the coast of Alaska and who is greatly interested in the people of that region. The carvings are unusually good examples of the work done by the Eskimos, and form a variable addition to the collections of the Museum...
...party composed of students from the New England colleges will undertake an expedition to the interior o Labrador during the coming summer under the leadership of Mr. E. B. Baldwin, commander of the Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole expedition o 1902-1903, and Mr. G. H. Clarke. The expedition will leave Boston on June 27, going by way of New-foundland to the northeast coast of Labrador. The party will return some-time in September. It is proposed to investigate an unexplored region in Labrador, with the endeavor to locate an isolated tribe of Indians inhabiting the interior of the peninsula...
...Wilfred Grenfell of the Hospital Ship, "Strathcona," spoke last evening in Sanders Theatre on "Labrador Life on the Atlantic Seaboard." He told of the topographical and scenic characteristics of the Labrador region and of the peculiar conditions of life existing there. Among the fishermen and the natives on the barren coast, the Royal Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, under whose direction Dr. Grenfell's hospital ship is conducted, has for many years been doing a very successful work...