LABRADOR DAYS: TALES OF THE SEA TOILERS by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason Labrador Days describes the "Tales of the Sea Toilers" of the Atlantic Coast of Canada. Chapters include: There's Trouble on the Sea, The Doctor's Big Fee, The Triple Alliance, Portland Bill, Two Christmases, and many more. One of the popular works written by the well-known doctor, Wilfred T. Grenfell. Sir Wilfred Grenfell is a legend in Newfoundland and Labrador. He arrived from England in 1892 to investigate the lives of the people who fished on "the Labrador." He found poverty and destitution, and decided to change it. Through his tireless efforts - fund raising, building hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and more - Dr. Grenfell enriched the lives of thousands of people. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG (28 Feb 1865 – 9 Oct 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. He was born at Parkgate, Wirral, England, and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois, in 1909. She died in 1938. They had three children and retired to Vermont after his work in Newfoundland. Grenfell moved to London in 1882. He then commenced the study of medicine at the London Hospital Medical College (now part of Queen Mary, University of London) under the tutelage of Sir Frederick Treves: he graduated in 1888. His family were of Cornish origins. The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen sent Grenfell to Newfoundland in 1892 to improve the plight of coastal inhabitants and fishermen. That mission began in earnest in 1893 when he recruited two nurses and two doctors for hospitals at Indian Harbour, Newfoundland and later opened cottage hospitals along the coast of Labrador. The mission expanded greatly from its initial mandate to one of developing schools, an orphanage, cooperatives, industrial work projects, and social work. Although originally founded to serve the local fishermen the mission developed to include the aboriginal peoples and settlers along the coasts of Labrador and the eastern side of the Great Northern Peninsula of northern Newfoundland. For his years of service on behalf of the people of these communities he was later knighted by King George V. He had two sons and a daughter. Grenfell died of a coronary thrombosis at Kinloch House on 9 October 1940, and his ashes were brought to St Anthony, where they were placed inside a rock face overlooking the harbour.

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