Title The Grenfell Medical Mission and American support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s / edited by Jennifer J. Connor and Katherine Side

Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 49 McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 49 Contents Cover; The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Editors' Introduction: "Untainted by American Ways"? Newfoundland, the United States, and the Grenfell Mission; Part I: Shaping the Grenfell Mission; 1 Wilfred Grenfell and Newfoundland; 2 "We Are Anglo-Saxons": Grenfell, Race, and Mission Movements; 3 The Gospel of Right Living: Wilfred Grenfell's Association with John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek 4 To Prevent "the Otherwise Inevitable Catastrophe": American Philanthropy and the Creation of the International Grenfell Association, 1905-1914Part II: The Grenfell Enterprise in Motion; 5 Sport in a Northern Borderland: A History of Athletics and Play in the Grenfell Mission, 1900-1949; 6 "Indiscriminate Bounty Makes for Pauperism": Producing Respectability through Clothing at the Grenfell Mission, 1890s-1920s; 7 Elizabeth Page and the White Bay Unit; 8 Education at the Grenfell Mission in the 1920s 9 Behind the Scenes at the Grenfell Mission: Edgar "Ted" McNeill and Counter-Biography as Material Agency10 American Aid, the International Grenfell Association, and Health Care in Newfoundland, 1920s-1930s; Editors' Conclusion: An American Operation; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index Summary How American personnel, matériel, and money sustained the International Grenfell Association's medical mission in pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 19, 2018) Subject Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940. Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- History -- 19th century. Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- History -- 20th century. Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. Religious Missions -- history. Americans -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 19th century. Americans -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century. Missions, Medical -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 19th century. Missions, Medical -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century. Genre/Form Newfoundland and Labrador History. Form Electronic book Author Connor, Jennifer J., editor Side, Katherine, 1963- editor ISBN 077355579X (electronic bk.) 0773555803 (electronic bk.) 9780773555792 (electronic bk.) 9780773555808 (electronic bk.)

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