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The recycling of stockings dyed in soft hues is just one of various innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats collectible folk art. This book chronicles the development of a local craft into an art form. It draws on interviews with women who recall their hooking days, the study of hundreds of documents, and examination of Grenfell hooked mats.
Rugs, Hooked --- Pictorial rugs --- History. --- History. --- Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission.
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Wilfred Thomason Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, he raised funds and founded a network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and home industries. Also considers contributions of Lady Grenfell and officers of Grenfell Mission.
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When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties faced by those who lived there, Grenfell devoted the rest of his life to improving theirs. At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman, Grenfell became part of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Raising funds in Canada and the United States, he founded a network of hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and home industries that exists in a modified form to this day. In 1908, the story of his survival after a night marooned on a drifting patch of ice transformed him into a popular hero. He eventually became one of the most successful lecturers of his time. Ronald Rompkey tells the story of Grenfell's education, his Anglo-Saxonism, and his devotion to broader issues of hygiene and public health. Above all, Rompkey shows that Grenfell went beyond being a doctor or a missionary to become a cultural politician who intervened in a colonial culture. Grenfell of Labrador provides a vivid picture of the man himself and the social movements through which he worked.
Missionaries, Medical --- Missions, Medical --- Social reformers --- Medical missions --- Missionary medicine --- Medical assistance --- Medicine --- Medical expeditions --- Medical missionaries --- Reformers --- History. --- Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, --- Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission --- Grenfell Mission
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While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs of St Anthony and life in the household of the Grenfell workers. After she left Newfoundland, Luther became one of the pioneers of occupational therapy in the United States, spending the rest of her professional life as director of occupational therapy at the Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Edited by Ronald Rompkey, author of the most authoritative biography of Grenfell, Luther's journal provides an unusually intimate account of Wilfred Grenfell during these four years B his idiosyncracies, his attempts to meet the needs of the community, his rescue from a floating ice pan, his marriage B and brings to life the Newfoundlanders with whom she worked.
Occupational therapists --- Allied health personnel --- Luther, Jessie, --- Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission --- Grenfell Mission --- History. --- Women missionaries --- Missionaries, Women --- Women as missionaries --- Missionaries --- Women in Christianity
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