Labrador Doctor

Autobiography of William Anthony Paddon who worked for more than 30 years as a pioneer doctor with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador.

'A Labrador Doctor' is the title of an autobiography of a man named Wilfred Grenfell. He was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland. In the beginning, his mission was intended to improve the plight of coastal inhabitants and fishermen. Later, it expanded greatly from its initial mandate to one of developing schools, an orphanage, cooperatives, industrial work projects, and social work.

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"A Labrador Doctor" from Wilfred Grenfell. Medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (1865-1940).

Paddon's memoir gives the reader a sense of the resident Innu, Inuit, and settler communities, as well as the prevailing institutions of non-governmental authority: the Hudson's Bay Company, the Moravian Mission, and the International Grenfell Association. At a time when Labrador is undergoing further industrial development and social change, his writings, carefully edited and annotated by Ronald Rompkey, the biographer of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, capture the heart of the region and its people.

The best-selling biography of Wilfred Grenfell, back in print.