The Labrador memoir of Dr. Harry Paddon, 1912-1938 / edited by Ronald Rompkey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paddon, Harry, 1881-1939.

Contributor:

Rompkey, Ronald.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 17.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services (Hannah Institute) studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paddon, Harry, 1881-1939.

Paddon, Harry.

Medicine, Rural--Newfoundland and Labrador--History.

Medicine, Rural.

Physicians (General practice)--Newfoundland and Labrador--Biography.

Physicians (General practice).

Labrador (N.L.)--Social conditions.

Labrador (N.L.).

Physical Description:

xliv, 304 p. : ill., maps, ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Maps

Preface

Survey

From London to Labrador via Newfoundland

“Down North” along the Labrador Coast in a Newfoundland Icebreaker

Cottage Hospital Experiences at Indian Harbour, Labrador

Up Hamilton Inlet to the Garden of Labrador

Autumn Cruising - into Winter Quarters

The Long Winter Trail

The Same, Concluded

Second Summer at Indian Harbour and Back to Mud Lake for the Freeze-Up

Northward by Dog-Team into Eskimo Territory

Third Summer at Indian Harbour: Outbreak of War, Back to England and ...?

Foundations

Back to Labrador: Founding of North West River Cottage Hospital

Systematising the Service: Further Insight into the Problem of Poverty

Pestilence in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Disaster

Campaigning for Funds: The Founding of the First Labrador Public School and Beginning of Child Welfare Work

Fire and Friends, Sidelights on the Physical Problems of Trappers, Founding of the Second Labrador Public School

Construction

The Passing of Yale from the Service

Further Developments in Child Welfare Work, More Wayside Comedy and Tragedy, Another Staggering Blow

The Coming of Maraval: Extended Medical Cruising

Recent Developments and Impending Changes

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86093-3

9786612860935

0-7735-7081-0

OCLC:

929120934