Grenfell Heritage Hotel & Suites - St. Anthony Hotels, Canada
Grenfell Heritage Hotel & Suites 3 Stars hotel in St. Anthony, Canada Within US Travel Directory Free Wi-Fi and daily breakfast are offered at this historic St. Anthony hotel. A microwave and refrigerator are featured in each room. Pistolet Bay Provincial Park is just 30 minutes’ drive away.A cable TV is featured in each room at Grenfell Heritage Hotel & Suites. Ironing facilities are provided for guest use. Select rooms offer a fully equipped kitchen.Guest laundry facilities provide added convenience at Grenfell Hotel. A gift shop is available on-site.Northland Discovery Iceberg & Whale Tours and Grenfell House Museum are both within 5 minutes’ walk from this hotel.
Fishing Point Municipal Park is 3 km away.
Hotels Located in :
Grenfell Heritage Hotel & Suites - St. Anthony Hotels, Canada
Location in : 1 McChada Drive, A0K 4S0 St. Anthony, Canada
Booking Now :
US Travel directory
Facebook :
Adrift on an Ice Floe in the Arctic Ocean by Dr Wilfred Grenfell CMG HMV no 2 D376
ir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG (28 February 1865 -- 9 October 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
He was born at Parkgate, Wirral, England, the son of Rev. Algernon Sidney Grenfell,[1] headmaster of Mostyn House School, and Jane Georgiana Hutchison and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois, in 1909. She died in 1938. They had three children and retired to Vermont after his work in Newfoundland.
Grenfell moved to London in 1882. He then commenced the study of medicine at the London Hospital Medical College (now part of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry) under the tutelage of Sir Frederick Treves: he graduated in 1888.
The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen sent Grenfell to Newfoundland in 1892 to improve the plight of coastal inhabitants and fishermen.[2] That mission began in earnest in 1893 when he recruited two nurses and two doctors for hospitals at Indian Harbour, Newfoundland and later opened cottage hospitals along the coast of Labrador. The mission expanded greatly from its initial mandate to one of developing schools, an orphanage, cooperatives, industrial work projects, and social work. Although originally founded to serve the local fishermen the mission developed to include the aboriginal peoples and settlers along the coasts of Labrador and the eastern side of the Great Northern Peninsula of northern Newfoundland. For his years of service on behalf of the people of these communities he was later knighted. He had two sons and a daughter. Grenfell died of a coronary thrombosis at Kinloch House on 9 October 1940, and his ashes were brought to St Anthony, where they were placed inside a rock face overlooking the harbour.
[edit]Introduction of reindeer
In 1907 Grenfell imported a group of 300 reindeer from Norway to provide food and serve as draft animals in Newfoundland. Unbeknownst to him, some of the animals carried a parasitic roundworm, Elaphostrongylus rangiferi, that then spread to native caribou herds. The reindeer herd eventually disappeared; however, the parasite took hold and causes cerebrospinal elaphostronglyosis (CSE) in caribou, a disease well known in reindeer in Scandinavia.[3]
[edit]International Grenfell Association
By 1914 the mission had gained international status. In order to manage its property and affairs, the International Grenfell Association, a non-profit mission society, was founded to support Grenfell's work. The Association operated, until 1981, as an NGO. It had responsibility for delivery of healthcare and social services in northern Newfoundland and Labrador. After 1981 a governmental agency, The Grenfell Regional Health Services Board, took over the operational responsibility. The International Grenfell Association, having divested itself of all properties and operational responsibility for health and social services, boarding schools, hospitals then became a supporting association making grants and funding scholarships for medical training.
[edit]Historical Society
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
postage issue of 1940
The Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Historical Society was formed in 1978. The society purchased Grenfell's home in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador. The home has been restored as a museum and archives. The Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Historical Society with the support of Provincial Government and the International Grenfell Association began construction of an interpretation centre in St. Anthony and it was opened in 1997. This facility added to the existing house and serves to promote the legacy to thousands of visitors each year. The Grenfell Interpretation Centre also is used by other organizations for meetings and events. A large interpretive display is housed there and provides historical background surrounding the work of Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell.
[edit]Literary inspiration
A unique figure, Grenfell served to inspire at least two characters in Canadian literature: Dr. Luke in Norman Duncan's Doctor Luke of the Labrador (1904) and Dr. Tocsin in White Eskimo by Harold Horwood (1972).
A biography for children (middle-high school) was written in 1942, by Genevieve Fox. Published by Thomas Y Crowell Company. The book had second and third printings as well.
The following statement has been widely ascribed to him, but cannot be found in any of his books: The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and serve.' There can be no other meaning.
Here & Now Wednesday September 19 2018
Here & Now - Every day, around Newfoundland and Labrador, Debbie Cooper and Anthony Germain, and the entire Here and Now team pull out all the stops to cover your news and weather. If it's happening now, you'll see it here.
»»» Subscribe to CBC NL to watch more videos:
For your daily CBC NL news fix:
CBC NL on Twitter:
CBC NL on Facebook:
CBC NL is now on YouTube. Join us for news, live events, commentary, daily weather, comedy, music, more. Connect with us about what you'd like to see here.
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 10: Roads for Rails - the Newfoundland Railway
Today @aliceavizandum, @oldmananders0n, and @donoteat1 are joined by @seanrade to examine the closure of Newfoundland's railway, why it was completely unjustified, and what may come in the future. Also we mispronounce words.
listen to trashfuture:
Here's the Patreon link so you can watch the Groverhaus episode:
CBC NL Here & Now Wednesday January 24 2018
Here & Now - Every day, around Newfoundland and Labrador, Debbie Cooper, Anthony Germain, Ryan Snoddon, and the entire Here and Now team pull out all the stops to cover your news and weather. If it's happening now, you'll see.
»»» Subscribe to CBC NL to watch more videos:
For your daily CBC NL news fix:
CBC NL on Twitter:
CBC NL on Facebook:
CBC NL is now on YouTube. Join us for news, live events, commentary, daily weather, comedy, music, more. Connect with us about what you'd like to see here.
Here & Now Thursday, October 10 2019
Here & Now - Every day, around Newfoundland and Labrador, Anthony Germain and the entire Here and Now team pull out all the stops to cover your news and weather. If it's happening now, you'll see it here.
»»» Subscribe to CBC NL to watch more videos:
For your daily CBC NL news fix:
CBC NL on Twitter:
CBC NL on Facebook:
CBC NL is now on YouTube. Join us for news, live events, commentary, daily weather, comedy, music, more. Connect with us about what you'd like to see here.