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Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940

  • The good doctor
    Auteur:
    Butler, Paul
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    Portland, Maine, 1910. An assembly gathers to listen to a fundraising lecture by the esteemed medical missionary Doctor Wilfred Grenfell. Grenfell has been working for eighteen years with trappers, fishermen, and their families on...
  • Far from home : Dr. Grenfell's little orphan
    Auteur:
    Strowbridge, Nellie P.
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    Clarissa, eleven, has been orphaned by a disease that has kept her far from home for as long as she can remember. Despite the many inmates in Dr. Grenfell’s Children’s Home on Newfoundland’s northern tip, she lives a lonely life. She...
  • Adrift on an ice pan
    Auteur:
    Grenfell, Sir Wilfred
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    On Easter Sunday, 1908, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell was summoned to treat a boy with osteomyelitis who had been operated on two weeks earlier. The young man needed immediate attention to save not only his leg but his life, so the doctor set...
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