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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818307503321

Autore

Paddon Harry <1881-1939.>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-86093-3

9786612860935

0-7735-7081-0

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

RompkeyRonald

Disciplina

610/.92

Soggetti

Medicine, Rural - Newfoundland and Labrador - History

Physicians (General practice) - Newfoundland and Labrador

Labrador (N.L.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.