The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s / edited by Jennifer J. Connor and Katherine Side.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connor, Jennifer J., editor.

Side, Katherine, 1963- editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; Volume 49.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; Volume 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940.

Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason.

Americans--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--19th century.

Americans.

Americans--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--20th century.

Missions, Medical--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--19th century.

Missions, Medical.

Missions, Medical--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages).

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them Americans from Ivy League institutions. As the medical mission grew to become the International Grenfell Association, establishing institutions along the Labrador and northern Newfoundland coasts, Americans also became resident staff leaders in the region, and Grenfell himself married an American, Anne MacClanahan, who led mission activities. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s reveals the nature and extent of support from Americans throughout the distributed privately run social enterprise until the 1940s, before the region joined Canada. Essays explore the organization's claims to share an Anglo-Saxon heritage with the United States, American reaction to its financial scandal and creation of an incorporated association, its promotion of sport and masculinity, and the development of education and schools in the region and the mission. The organization's strong ties to the United States are exemplified by Grenfell's friendship with American physician John Harvey Kellogg; the donation of clothing from American donors; the work of one American woman on her affiliated mission unit; the impact of American philanthropy and training on the construction of the mission's main hospital in St Anthony; and the superior American-accredited health care facilities and their clinical achievements. From its corporate base in New York City, the International Grenfell Association blended contemporary social movements and adopted American notions of philanthropy. The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s-1940s offers the first thorough history of an iconic health and social organization in Atlantic Canada.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Editors' Introduction

Shaping the Grenfell Mission

Wilfred Grenfell and Newfoundland

“We Are Anglo-Saxons”: Grenfell, Race, and Mission Movements

The Gospel of Right Living: Wilfred Grenfell’s Association with John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek

To Prevent “the Otherwise Inevitable Catastrophe”: American Philanthropy and the Creation of the International Grenfell Association, 1905–1914

The Grenfell Enterprise in Motion

Sport in a Northern Borderland: A History of Athletics and Play in the Grenfell Mission, 1900–1949

“Indiscriminate Bounty Makes for Pauperism”: Producing Respectability through Clothing at the Grenfell Mission, 1890s–1920s

Elizabeth Page and the White Bay Unit

Education at the Grenfell Mission in the 1920s

Behind the Scenes at the Grenfell Mission: Edgar “Ted” McNeill and Counter-Biography as Material Agency

American Aid, the International Grenfell Association, and Health Care in Newfoundland, 1920s–1930s

An American Operation

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773555808

0773555803

9780773555792

077355579X

OCLC:

1394871634