1 Wilfred Grenfell and Newfoundland

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Editors' Introduction 3
7. Shaping the Grenfell Mission
8. Wilfred Grenfell and Newfoundland 23
9. “We Are Anglo-Saxons”: Grenfell, Race, and Mission Movements 45
10. The Gospel of Right Living: Wilfred Grenfell’s Association with John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek 69
11. To Prevent “the Otherwise Inevitable Catastrophe”: American Philanthropy and the Creation of the International Grenfell Association, 1905–1914 77
12. The Grenfell Enterprise in Motion
13. Sport in a Northern Borderland: A History of Athletics and Play in the Grenfell Mission, 1900–1949 103
14. “Indiscriminate Bounty Makes for Pauperism”: Producing Respectability through Clothing at the Grenfell Mission, 1890s–1920s 128
15. Elizabeth Page and the White Bay Unit 150
16. Education at the Grenfell Mission in the 1920s 180
17. Behind the Scenes at the Grenfell Mission: Edgar “Ted” McNeill and Counter-Biography as Material Agency 220
18. American Aid, the International Grenfell Association, and Health Care in Newfoundland, 1920s–1930s 245
19. An American Operation 267
20. Notes 287
21. Bibliography 341
22. Contributors 377
23. Index 381