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Labrador Days

First published: 1919
Pages: 116

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Read by John Leloup, Tom Shoesmith, Hubert Williams and others · 4 h 7 min · 11 parts

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There's Trouble on the Sea
18:45
Nancy
19:57
Sally's "Turns"
26:39
The Doctor's Big Fee
12:59
Two Cat's-Paws
17:46
The Triple Alliance
20:16
Portland Bill
18:12
Kaiachououk
20:21
Two Christmases
32:20
The Leading Light
22:39
The Red Island Shoals
38:01

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A gathering of eleven stories drawn from Grenfell's years as a doctor along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, this 1919 collection turns the hard lives of northern fisher-folk into fiction. Grenfell writes of families scraping a living from a cruel sea, of rescues carried out over drift ice, and of small acts of courage in isolated harbours where a physician might reach a patient only once in a season. The tales carry blunt titles like "There's Trouble on the Sea" and "The Doctor's Big Fee," moving between plain adventure and quiet moral reflection. Because Grenfell knew this world at first hand, the book reads closer to witness than invention. It stands as a warm, unsentimental record of a vanishing way of life on one of the harshest coasts in the North Atlantic.

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Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940) was a British physician and medical missionary best known for his work among the fishermen and settlers of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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