A Sort of Peace Corps: Wilfred Grenfell's Labrador Volunteers

by Harry Toland

Sir Wilfred Grenfell was one of the great humanitarians of the twentieth century. This English surgeon founded a medical mission in 1892 that strove for more than eighty years to serve the impoverished people of Labrador and northern Newfoundland. His mission brought medical care, schools, and orphanages to coastal villages beset by untreated disease and injuries, malnutrition, and poverty. This book is about the mission and its volunteers (some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0788417584
• ISBN13: 9780788417580
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Heritage Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"