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15 produkter
Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
Inbunden, 2001
883 kr
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While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs …
Labrador Odyssey
The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the Second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893
E-bok, 1996
394 kr
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A religious, well-educated Victorian, Curwen takes us into the heart of the colonial society he encountered. He reveals the pervasive sectarianism, the tawdry political world of St John''s, the rudimentary conditions aboard the fishing schooners, and the poverty of the Labrador "livyers," the …
Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
E-bok, 2001
742 kr
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While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs …
Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938
Av Ronald Rompkey, Harry Paddon
E-bok, 2003
377 kr
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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 …
Grenfell of Labrador
A Biography
E-bok, 2009
348 kr
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When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties …
Grenfell of Labrador
A Biography
E-bok, 2009
348 kr
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When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties …
Expeditions of Honour
The Journal of John Salusbury in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1749-53
Av Ronald Rompkey, John Salusbury
E-bok, 2011
718 kr
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Expeditions of Honour presents the entirety of Salusbury''s diary, supplemented with a biographical introduction, historical notes on events and major figures, and the letters he sent to his wife. Selected in 1749 to serve on the first Halifax council and to supervise the granting and allocation of …
Grenfell of Labrador
A Biography
E-bok, 1993
576 kr
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When the 23-year-old British Doctor Wilfred Grenfell first set foot in Newfoundland in 1892, bent upon serving migrant fishermen, he had no clear idea who his patients were or how they lived there. But his first few weeks on the Labrador coast changed all that. Moved by its natural beauty and the …
French Visitors to Newfoundland
An Anthology of Nineteenth Century Travel Writings
Häftad, 2013
340 kr
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From the early 1800s on, we encounter the first French writers to become interested in life in Newfoundland. This anthology provides an image of Newfoundland that was shaped over many years of writings by countless French voyagers—sailors and naval officers, diplomats, scientists, journalists, …
Labrador Odyssey
The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the Second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893
Häftad, 1999
439 kr
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A religious, well-educated Victorian, Curwen takes us into the heart of the colonial society he encountered. He reveals the pervasive sectarianism, the tawdry political world of St John's, the rudimentary conditions aboard the fishing schooners, and the poverty of the Labrador "livyers," the …
Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938
Av Harry Paddon, Ronald Rompkey
Inbunden, 2003
460 kr
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A memoir of the experiences of the Grenfell Mission's resident physician in North West River.
Grenfell of Labrador
A Biography
Häftad, 2009
469 kr
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When British doctor Wilfred Grenfell arrived in Newfoundland in 1892 to provide medical service to migrant fisherman, he had no clear sense of who his patients were or how they lived - a few weeks on the Labrador coast changed that. Struck by both the rugged beauty of the place and the difficulties …
Expeditions of Honour
The Journal of John Salusbury in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1749-53
Av John Salusbury, Ronald Rompkey
Inbunden, 2011
1020 kr
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Expeditions of Honour presents the entirety of Salusbury's diary, supplemented with a biographical introduction, historical notes on events and major figures, and the letters he sent to his wife. Selected in 1749 to serve on the first Halifax council and to supervise the granting and allocation of …
Diary of Bishop Edward Feild in 1844
Häftad, 2010
231 kr
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Edward Feild, Newfoundland's second Anglican bishop, was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1844 and departed shortly thereafter to take up his duties. The private diary he began at that point documents his crossing of the Atlantic, his two-week sojourn in Halifax, Nova Scotia, …
