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  • Agriculture, in Labrador, unsuccessful, 217, 290.
  • Alaska, reindeer experiment in, 291, 294-295.
  • Albert, the, hospital ship of Dr. Grenfell, 125, 188, 189.
  • Among the Deep-Sea Fishers, magazine, 280.
  • Andrews, Dr. Joseph, eye-specialist, 357.
  • Archibald, Sir William, chairman of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, 362.
  • Armstrong, Dr. Seymour, his work at St. Anthony, 367.
  • Arnold, Thomas, of Rugby, 14.
  • Athletics, Grenfell's fondness of, 21, 32, 44, 50, 51, 53, 81, 424.
  • Bailey, Florence, nurse, 326.
  • Barnett, Samuel, of Mile End, head of Toynbee House, 83.
  • Barter system, the evils of, 131, 132, 133-138, 215-217.
  • Bartlett, Captain, father of "Captain Bob," 136.
  • Battle Harbour, Newfoundland, site of hospital, 126, 162, 165, 169, 193.
  • Beattie, Arthur, 192.
  • Beetz, Mr., 239.
  • Begbie, Harold, Twice-Born Men, 101.
  • Bell, Dr. Alexander Graham, 338.
  • Belle Isle, the Straits of, Labrador, 126, 127, 140, 250.
  • Besant, Mrs. Annie, associated with Charles Bradlaugh, 81, 82.
  • Blandford, Captain Samuel, 159, 172.
  • Bobardt, Dr. Arthur, 126, 159-162.
  • Booth, Walter, of New York, 370, 371.
  • Bowditch, William, 275.
  • Boys' Brigade, the, 101, 353.
  • Bradlaugh, Charles, religious radical, 81-82.
  • Cabot, John, 120.
  • Carpenter, Rev. C.C., 241, 242.
  • Carrel, Dr. Alexis, in France, 397.
  • Cartier, Jacques, 158.
  • Cartwright, George, 158.
  • Catholic Cadet Corps, the, 159, 353.
  • Cattle-raising in Labrador unsuccessful, 290.
  • Cawardine, Miss, nurse, 126.
  • Charity, prophylactic, more important than remedial, 235.
  • Cheever, Colonel David, 389.
  • Chester, England, birthplace of Grenfell, 1, 2.
  • Chidley, Cape, Labrador, 164, 207, 208.
  • Children's Home, the, 244-253.
  • Church Lads Brigade, the, 159, 353.
  • Clark, Sir Andrew, doctor, 65.
  • Cluett, George B., of Troy, N.Y., 347, 348.
  • Cook, Captain, 128, 340, 341.
  • Coöperative system, the, 215-225.
  • Corner, the, magazine, 242.
  • Crookhaven, seat of a dispensary and social centre, 107.
  • Crowe, Harry, lumber operator, 370.
  • Curtis, Dr. Charles, 408.
  • Curtis, Lieutenant Roger, quoted, 158.
  • Curwen, Dr. Elliott, 126.
  • Curzon-Howe, Lady, 191.
  • Curzon-Howe, Lord, 191.
  • Cutter, Marion, librarian, 266.
  • Daly, Professor Reginald, head of Department of Geology at Harvard University, quoted, 157, 158.
  • Dampier, William, 191.
  • Davis Inlet, Labrador, 154, 155.
  • Dawson, Sir Betrand, 388.
  • Dee, the River, 2, 4.
  • Delano, Eugene, head of Brown Brothers, bankers, 358.
  • Denominationalism, evils of, 264, 269, 353.
  • Dogs, Labrador, ferocity of, 198, 289, 290.
  • Domino Run, Labrador, natural harbour, 120.
  • Drake, Sir Francis, 191.
  • Duke of Connaught, Governor-General of Canada, 382.
  • Durand, Mrs. Charles, aunt of Mrs. Grenfell, 336.
  • Education in Labrador: schools denominational, 254, 269;
  • Grenfell's school, 257-264;
  • moving libraries, 266;
  • founding of undenominational boarding school, 268.
  • Edward VII, King, Grenfell's private audience with, 284, 285.
  • Edwards, Antiguan lecturer of the Christian Evidence Society, 82, 84, 85.
  • Emily Beaver Chamberlain Memorial Hospital, 404.
  • English, Robert, of Yale College, 277, 278.
  • Eskimos, the, Grenfell's work with, 129-136;
  • original natives of Labrador, 140, 141;
  • Valentine, king of, 155;
  • suffering of, 155.
  • Evans, John, worker at St. Anthony, 405.
  • Fallon, Dr. Louis, 405.
  • Faroë Islands, the, 184.
  • Fenwick, Harry, 69.
  • "Fisher Lads' Letter-Writing Association," 97.
  • Fishermen's Institute, 183.
  • Ford, George, factor of Hudson Bay Company, 141, 155, 242, 277, 327.
  • Fox Farm, at St. Anthony, 238-240.
  • George V, King, 352, 353.
  • Gladstone, W.E., 106.
  • Gosling, Mrs. W.E., 370.
  • Gould, Albert, volunteer helper of Grenfell, 318, 321.
  • Great Cop, the, 4.
  • Greenshields, Julia, editor of Among the Deep-Sea Fishers, 280.
  • Grenfell, Algernon, brother of W.T.G., 7, 8, 9, 10.
  • Grenfell, Algernon Sydney, father of W.T.G., 8, 9, 11, 12.
  • Grenfell, Cecil, brother of W.T.G., 7.
  • Grenfell, Kinloch Pascoe, son of W.T.G., 342.
  • Grenfell, Maurice, brother of W.T.G., 7.
  • Grenfell, Pascoe, of Bank of England, 161.
  • Grenfell, Rosamond Loveday, daughter of W.T.G., 342.
  • Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, birth, 1;
  • ancestry, 1, 2;
  • early days, 2-14;
  • school life, 15-36;
  • study of natural objects, 34-36;
  • choice of medical profession, 37-39;
  • college life, 41-44;
  • interest in athletics, 44;
  • religious awakening, 44-46;
  • Sunday-school class and slum work, 46-53;
  • summer cruises, 53-57;
  • camping with boys, 57-63;
  • germination of democratic tendencies, 63;
  • interne in London Hospital, 64-87;
  • father's death, 73;
  • humanitarian ideals, 78, 79;
  • hatred of liquor traffic, 79;
  • association with religious radicals in East London, 81-86;
  • cosmopolitan life, 85;
  • member of College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons of England, 87;
  • first work in fisheries of North Sea, 88-98;
  • his religion intensely social, 99-101;
  • medical officer in boys' summer-camps, 102, 103;
  • development of work in North Sea and off Irish coast, 104-114;
  • preparation and departure for America, 113-118;
  • first summer in Labrador, 119-125;
  • success in Labrador, 125;
  • return to England, 126;
  • second voyage to Labrador, 126;
  • founding of cottage hospitals, 126;
  • visits to Moravian Brethren and work among Eskimos, 128-138;
  • lecturing and soliciting in southern Newfoundland and Canada, 159-162;
  • cruising north, 163-170;
  • experience with seal fishery, 173-182;
  • trip to Iceland, 183-187;
  • holiday with Treves on Scilly Islands, 187, 188;
  • third voyage to Newfoundland, 192, 193;
  • requested to establish a winter station at St. Anthony, 194;
  • winter at St. Anthony, 197-214;
  • institution of coöperative system, 218-225;
  • institution of saw-mill in North Newfoundland, 226-238;
  • fox farm at St. Anthony, 238, 239;
  • founding of The Children's Home, 244;
  • founding of common school, 257-265;
  • moving libraries, 266;
  • arrangement of two-cent postal rate, 281, 282;
  • awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine of Oxford, 282;
  • received honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in America, 283;
  • received Companionship in the Order of St. Michael and St. George, 284;
  • reindeer experiment, 288-303;
  • propaganda lecturing in England, 331, 332;
  • courtship, 333-337;
  • enlargement of St. Anthony Hospital, 338, 339;
  • marriage and family, 342, 343;
  • assumption of coöperative store debt, 344-347;
  • founding of Institute at St. John's, 349-353;
  • lecture tour in U.S. and England, 357-361;
  • lecture tour again, 371-374;
  • holiday in Asia Minor, 376-382;
  • winter at base hospital in France (1915), 384-402;
  • attacked by a St. John's newspaper, 403;
  • growth and development of Mission, 404-410;
  • religious life, 424-434.
  • Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Jr., 342.
  • Grenfell Association of America, the, 280.
  • Grenfell Town, 161.
  • Grieve, Dr. John, 404.
  • Haldane, Lord, 256.
  • Halifax, visited by Grenfell, 159.
  • Hare, Dr. Mather, work at Harrington, 275-276, 409.
  • Harrington Hospital, Canadian Labrador, 418.
  • Hause, Mr., of Pratt Institute, volunteer student helper, 325.
  • Hearn longliners and trawlers, 183.
  • Heligoland, visited by Grenfell, 90.
  • Henley, or Château, Labrador, 168.
  • Henson, Dr. Hensley, Bishop of Hereford, 83, 84.
  • Home, the Children's, 244-253.
  • Hopedale, Labrador, 128, 131.
  • Horsley, Sir Victor, doctor, 72.
  • Hot-heads, launches used in open sea, 275-279.
  • Hudson Bay Company, the, 133, 216, 276, 376.
  • Huxley, Professor, his criticism of English public school teaching, 40.
  • Hyères, France, 24.
  • Iceland, 183-187.
  • Illiteracy, in Newfoundland and Labrador, 255.
  • Indian Harbour, site of one of Grenfell's hospitals, 126.
  • Indian Tickle, Labrador, site of a church built by Labrador Mission, 165.
  • Ingram, Rt. Rev. A.F. Winnington, Bishop of London, 83, 84.
  • International Grenfell Association the, formation of, 358-359.
  • Ireland, Archbishop, 268.
  • Irish Poor-Relief Board, 109.
  • Irving, Sir Henry, 80.
  • Jackson, Rev. Dr. Sheldon, Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, 290.
  • Job, the Honourable W.C., 403.
  • Job, Mrs. W.C., 370.
  • Jones, Rev. Dr. Edgar, 268.
  • Jones, Sir Robert, orthopedic surgeon. 359, 360, 385, 388.
  • Jones, Mr. Walter, manager of Institute at St. John's, 367.
  • Julia Sheriden, the, Mission steamer, 193, 196.
  • Kean, Captain, of the S.S. Wolf, 180, 181.
  • Keese, Ruth (Mrs. John Mason Little, Jr.), 405.
  • Kingsley, Charles, 2, 103, 187, 256.
  • Komatik, description of a, 202, 203.
  • Labrador, the Country and the People, 139.
  • Labrador, inhabitants of, 139, 140;
  • climate of, 140, 141;
  • fishing industry, 141, 142;
  • poverty of people, 142, 148-153;
  • superstition of people, 142-145;
  • natural characteristics of, 156-158.
  • Lake Forest, on Lake Michigan, Mrs. Grenfell's home, 336.
  • Lapps, 292-294.
  • Leacock, Stephen, his essay, How to Become a Doctor, 144, 145.
  • Leslie, Olive, kindergartner, 260.
  • Lewis Bay, Labrador, winter hospital station at, 404.
  • Lighthouses, at Battle Harbour, 273;
  • at White Point, 274;
  • at Indian Harbour, 274.
  • Liquor traffic, the, Grenfell's hatred of, 79;
  • his suppression of, at St. Anthony, 209-214;
  • at St. John's, 353-356.
  • Lister, Sir Joseph, 70.
  • Little, Dr. John Mason, 338, 404, 406, 417.
  • Lloyd, Dr., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, 382.
  • Lodge, Sir Oliver, 430, 431.
  • London Hospital and University, Grenfell's father chaplain of, 37;
  • Grenfell's alma mater, 39.
  • Loti, Pierre, 186.
  • Luther, Jessie, 422.
  • MacAusland, Dr. W.R., of Boston, 381.
  • MacClanahan, Anna Elizabeth Caldwell (Mrs. W.T. Grenfell), 336.
  • MacClanahan, Colonel, father-in-law of Grenfell, 336.
  • MacGregor, Sir William, Governor of Newfoundland, 291, 320-323.
  • Mackenzie, Sir Stephen, 66.
  • Marlborough School, 15-24, 27, 30-33.
  • Marquis of Ripon, Minister to the Colonies, 286.
  • Mason, A.E.W., novelist, 187.
  • Matheson, Paul, volunteer helper of Grenfell, 318.
  • McCook, Colonel Anson G., 281, 282.
  • McGrath, Sir Patrick, 382.
  • Methodist guards, the, 159, 353.
  • Meyer, Hon. George von L., Postmaster-General, 281, 282.
  • Mill, the, on the "French Shore," Newfoundland, 326-238.
  • Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, 90.
  • Montreal, visited by Grenfell, 160, 161.
  • Moody, Dwight L., evangelist, 45, 427.
  • Moravian Brethren, the, their work with the Eskimos, 128, 129, 130, 132, 140, 156, 207.
  • Moravian Mission, 129-132.
  • Muir, Ethel Gordon, teacher, 267.
  • Murchison Prize, awarded Grenfell by the Royal Geographical Society, in 1911, 323.
  • Nain, Labrador, 130, 132.
  • Nakvak, Labrador, 141;
  • remains of Tunits there, 155.
  • Napatuliarasok Island, Labrador, noted for its Labradorite, 156.
  • Nasson Institute, 264.
  • Needlework Guild of America, the, 251, 419.
  • Newfoundland, independent colony of England, 139;
  • Labrador owned by, 139;
  • difference between North and South Newfoundland, 250.
  • Nielsen, Adolph, Superintendent of Fisheries off Labrador, 117.
  • O'Brien, Sir Terence, governor at St. John's, 117, 171.
  • Paddon, Dr. and Mrs., 404, 405.
  • Parkhurst, Dr. Charles H., of New York, 280.
  • Peary, Admiral, return of from North Pole, 339-342.
  • Pomiuk, Prince, Eskimo, 241-243.
  • Pratt Institute, 256, 258, 264.
  • Presbyterian Highland Brigade, the, 353.
  • Prince Edward Island, 240.
  • Princess May, the midget steam launch, 127, 128.
  • Public School Camps, 101.
  • R.A.M.C., efficiency of in France, 398-400.
  • Raymond, Sir Oliver Lodge, 430, 431.
  • Red Bay, Labrador, 218.
  • Red Bay Coöperative Store, 219.
  • Reed, William Howell, of Boston, 292.
  • Reikyavik, capital of Iceland, 184.
  • Reindeer experiment, the, 290-303.
  • Ripon, Marquis of, 159.
  • Rivington, Sir Walter, surgeon, 70.
  • Roddick, Sir Thomas, 162.
  • Roosevelt, the, Peary's ship, 340, 341.
  • Rowland, John, of Yale College, 277, 278.
  • St. Anthony, Newfoundland, 141;
  • poverty of people, 194, 195;
  • Grenfell's first winter in, 197-214;
  • Grenfell's fight against liquor traffic, 209-214;
  • headquarters of hospital stations, 417.
  • St. John's, burning of, 115, 116;
  • seat of Newfoundland government, 139.
  • Sands of Dee, the, 1-7.
  • Sayre, Francis B., secretary of Grenfell, 250, 338, 339, 341, 342, 374, 375.
  • Scilly Islands, 187.
  • Seal Fishery, the, 172-182.
  • Seyde Fjord, Iceland, visited by Grenfell, 186, 187.
  • Sheard, Mr., 404.
  • Sir Donald, the, mission steamer, 161, 190, 191, 208.
  • Skiff, Captain, 183.
  • Sloggett, Sir Arthur, general, 385, 398, 399.
  • Smith, George Adam, quoted, 429.
  • Southborough, Lord (Mr. Francis Hopwood), 113.
  • Spalding, Katie, of The Children's Home, 251, 253.
  • Spencer, Martyn, 290, 370.
  • Stewart, Dr. and Mrs. Norman, 405.
  • Stirling, W.R., 333, 337, 348, 407.
  • Storr, Eleanor, of The Children's Home, 250, 253.
  • Strathcona, Lord (Donald Smith), patron of Labrador Mission, 160, 161;
  • donor of the Strathcona, 191, 376.
  • Studd, J.E. and C.T., 45.
  • Sutton, Dr., London Hospital, 69.
  • Terschelling, visited by Grenfell, 90.
  • Tickle, the Grenfell, 209.
  • Tigris, the S.S., of the Polaris expedition, 178.
  • Tilt Cove, Newfoundland, 192, 193.
  • Toilers of the Deep, The, magazine, 280.
  • Tralee, on Kerry coast, seat of a dispensary, 107.
  • Treves, Sir Frederick, lecturer in anatomy and surgery in London Hospital and University, 43, 67-69, 88, 187, 254, 285, 388;
  • The Cradle of the Deep, 187.
  • Trevize, skipper, 114.
  • Truck Acts, 96.
  • Ungava Bay, Labrador, 164, 208.
  • Van Dyke, Dr. Henry, 362.
  • Vestmann Islands, Iceland, visited by Grenfell, 184.
  • Victoria, Queen, 104
  • Victoria Park, London, 81-82.
  • Wakefield, Dr. Arthur, of England, 368, 369.
  • Wall Street Journal, quoted, 294, 295.
  • Watson, the Honourable Robert, 403.
  • Wellington, Duke of, 187.
  • West, Dr., 275, 409.
  • White, Emma E., secretary of Labrador Mission in Boston, 279, 324.
  • White Bay, Labrador, 148.
  • Whitechapel Road, site of London Hospital, 40.
  • Whitney, Harry, 340.
  • Williams, Miss, nurse, 126.
  • Williams, George, 364, 365.
  • Williams, Sir Ralph, governor of Newfoundland, 350-352.
  • Willway, Dr., colleague of Grenfell, 169.
  • Wilson, Jessie, daughter of President Wilson, 374, 375.
  • Wiltsie, Dr., his work in Labrador, 363, 364.
  • Wolf, the S.S., wreck of, 180, 181.
  • Yarmouth, institute for fishermen ashore, and dispensary vessel, 105.
  • Y.M.C.A. in St. John's, 353;
  • in France, 389, 390.

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