DR. GRENFELL’S PARISH
Reading edition
“A DOCTOR ... THE PROPHET AND CHAMPION OF A PEOPLE”
Dr. Grenfell’s Parish
The Deep Sea Fishermen
By NORMAN DUNCAN
Author of “Doctor Luke of the Labrador”
New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1905, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
THIRD EDITION
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Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
TO THE CREW OF THE “STRATHCONA”
Henry Bartlett,Skipper
Munden Clark,Second Hand
William Percy,First Engineer
John Scott,Second Engineer
Archie Butler,Hospital Hand
James Hiscock,Cook
Alec Sims,Ship’s Boy
TO THE READER
This book pretends to no literary excellence; it has a far better reason for existence—a larger justification. Its purpose is to spread the knowledge of the work of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, at work on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to describe the character and condition of the folk whom he seeks to help. The man and the mission are worthy of sympathetic interest; worthy, too, of unqualified approbation, of support of every sort. Dr. Grenfell is indefatigable, devoted, heroic; he is more and even better than that—he is a sane and efficient worker. Frankly, the author believes that the reader would do a good deed by contributing to the maintenance and development of the doctor’s beneficent undertakings; and regrets that the man and his work are presented in this inadequate way and by so incapable a hand. The author is under obligation to the editors of Harper’s Magazine, of The World’s Work, and of Outing for permission to reprint the contributed papers which, in some part, go to make up the volume. He wishes also to protest that Dr. Grenfell is not the hero of a certain work of fiction dealing with life on the Labrador coast. Some unhappy misunderstanding has arisen on this point. The author wishes to make it plain that “Doctor Luke” was not drawn from Dr. Grenfell.
N. D.
College Campus, Washington, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1905.
CONTENTS
I.The Doctor
II.A Round of Bleak Coasts
III.Ships in Peril
IV.Desperate Need
V.A Helping Hand
VI.Faith and Duty
VII.The Liveyere
VIII.With the Fleet
IX.On the French Shore
X.Some Outport Folk
XI.Winter Practice
XII.The Champion
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
“A Doctor ... the Prophet and Champion of a People”
“It is an Evil Coast”
“Bound North”
“A Turf Hut”
“Set Sail from Great Yarmouth Harbour for Labrador”
“Appeared with a Little Steam-launch, the Princess May”
“The Hospital Ship, Strathcona”
“The Labrador ‘Liveyere’”
“At Indian Harbour”
“Set the Traps in the Open Sea”
“The Bully-boat Becomes a Home”
“The Whitewashed Cottages on the Hills”
“Toil”
“The Hospital at Battle Harbour”
“The Doctor on a Winter’s Journey”
“A Crew Quite Capable of Taking You into It”
Dr. Grenfell’s Parish