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

Publication Info. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
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Subject Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.
Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- History -- 19th century.
Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission.
Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Grenfell Labrador Medical Mission -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Missions, Medical -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 19th century.
Missions, Medical.
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Missions, Medical -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
Americans -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 19th century.
Americans.
Americans -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Newfoundland and Labrador.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Connor, Jennifer J., editor.
Side, Katherine, 1963- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Grenfell Medical Mission and American support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019] 0773554866 9780773554863 (OCoLC)1080604830
ISBN 9780773555792 (electronic book)
077355579X (electronic book)
9780773555808 (electronic book)
0773555803 (electronic book)
9780773554863
9780773554870