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Author Rompkey, Ronald

Title Grenfell of Labrador : a biography / Ronald Rompkey
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 350 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the 2009 Reprint -- Prologue -- PART ONE: DEEP SEA MISSIONARY -- 1 Mostyn House School, 1865�1882 -- 2 The London Hospital Medical College, 1883�1889 -- 3 The Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, 1889�1892 -- 4 The Voyages of the Albert, 1892�1893 -- 5 The Voyage of the Princess May, 1893�94 -- PART TWO: SOCIAL REFORMER -- 6 Hard Times in Newfoundland, 1894�1897 -- 7 Exile in England, 1897�1899 -- 8 The Hero Ascendant, 1900�1905 -- 9 Grand Almoner, 1905�1908 -- 10 The Hero Confirmed, 1908�1910
PART THREE: LIVING LEGEND11 Running a Railroad Accident, 1910�1914 -- 12 Coping with War, 1914�1918 -- 13 Promoting the Mission, 1918�1920 -- 14 The Lecture Circuit, 1918�1923 -- 15 Public Figure, 1923�1927 -- PART FOUR: SPENT RUNNER -- 16 The New Mission, 1928�1931 -- 17 The Death of Democracy, 1931�1934 -- 18 Resignation, 1934�1937 -- 19 The Last Lap, 1937�1940 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S
TU -- V -- W -- Y -- Photographs
Notes "First published in 1991 by University of Toronto Press"--Title page verso
On cover: With a new preface by the author
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-343) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
SUBJECT Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940 fast
Subject Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- Biography
Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- History
SUBJECT Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission fast
Subject Missions, Medical -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- History
Missionaries, Medical -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography
Social reformers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
MEDICAL -- Physicians.
HISTORY -- General.
Missionaries, Medical
Missions, Medical
Social reformers
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011292179
ISBN 9780773575196
0773575197
9780773577657
0773577653
0773535314
9780773535312