Photo Credit: The Rooms Provincial Archives. IGA 13.62 (Dr. Wilfred Grenfell painting .)
The impact of British physician-missionary Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940) was widely recognized during the first half of the twentieth century. Grenfell’s lifework in Newfoundland and Labrador began in the early 1890s with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. By 1914 the International Grenfell Association (IGA) was formed to focus on his work in this region. This one-day symposium will explore the historical significance of Grenfell, the IGA, and the delivery of healthcare in Newfoundland and Labrador over the last century and address issues concerning the present and the future. All are welcome, with refreshment breaks provided.
The Rooms, St John’s, Saturday, October 18, 2014, 9 am to 5 pm
Programme and Schedule
9:00 am-9:10 am
Session 1—Introduction Welcome
Chair, Jennifer Connor
9:10 am-10:20 am
Jeff Webb: “Newfoundland in the age of Grenfell”
Jim Connor: “Primary medical care and health in Newfoundland during the Grenfell era: Were they that bad?”
10:40 am-11:30 am
Anne Budgell: “Opera, lunch, and tea: New York high society and the Grenfell Mission”
Heidi Coombs-Thorne: “‘Heroines’: Nursing with the Grenfell Mission, 1939-1981”
11:30am-12:30pm
Ronald Numbers: “The gospel of right living: Wilfred Grenfell’s collaboration with John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek.”
1:30pm-2:45pm
Jennifer Connor: “Two British physicians and their ‘flits’ on the Grenfell mission in Newfoundland before 1930”
Larry Dohey: “It is called ‘GRENFELLITIS:’ Archivists look at the Grenfell Collection and its artistic and historical significance”
Monica Kidd: “‘If we can make a cure of him’: Lyrical Grenfell in the St. Anthony casebooks, 1906”
3:05pm-3:55 pm
Bill Bavington: “Reflections on the IGA in a time of transition–1974-1982”
Maria Mathews: “Back to the future – Primary care reform in rural Newfoundland and Labrador”
3:55 pm-4:25 pm
Concluding Remarks
Chair, Jim Connor
Norman Pinder
Edward Roberts
All sessions are free and open to the public. The Rooms, St John’s, Saturday, October 18, 2014, 9 am to 5 pm
For more information contact: Dr. Jim Connors: jconnor@mun.ca or 709.777.8729.