Author: Ronald RompkeyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575197
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The best-selling biography of Wilfred Grenfell, back in print.
Grenfell of Labrador
Author: Ronald RompkeyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575197
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The best-selling biography of Wilfred Grenfell, back in print.
With Grenfell on the Labrador
Author: Fullerton L. WaldoPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
"With Grenfell on the Labrador" by Fullerton L. Waldo. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Labrador, the Country and the People
Author: Sir Wilfred Thomason GrenfellPublisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
ISBN:
Category : Labrador (N.L.)
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Adrift on an Ice-Pan
Author: W. T. GrenfellPublisher: Hervey Press
ISBN: 1409772993
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Author: Labrador Memoir of Dr Harry Paddon, 1912-1938
Author: Harry PaddonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773525054
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Dr Harry Paddon's memoir is an extensive account of life in Labrador prior to its entry into Confederation. As the Grenfell Mission's principal physician for over twenty-five years, Dr Paddon travelled extensively throughout Labrador by both dog team and boat. Through his journals he fashions a portrait of Labrador society in accord with the traditional rhythms of trapping and fishing, as it was before the onset of industrial development. He also chronicles the demands of northern medicine in response to pervasive threats such as tuberculosis and deficiency diseases, including a moving description of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19. 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.
Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People
Author: Silk Stocking Mats
Author: Paula LavertyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773525068
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings, dyed in soft hues, is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats highly collectible folk art. In Silk Stocking Mats, Paula Laverty chronicles the development of a local craft into an art form. For generations Newfoundland women had augmented their family's unreliable fishing income with a "matting season" in February and March. Through the Grenfell Mission's Industrial Department, set up in 1909 to help develop cottage industries, the mat industry became an increasingly important source of income reaching peak production in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the women's mats became renowned for their strong design, meticulous craftsmanship, and distinctive northern images chronicling life in the north. Reindeer, sled dog teams, polar bears, schooners, outports, and florals are but a few of the mat designs.Silk Stocking Mats is the result of over seventeen years of exhaustive research and draws on personal interviews with older women who recall their hooking days, the study of hundreds of archival documents, and careful examination of countless Grenfell hooked mats. Laverty's book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and descriptions including rare and unusual as well as common mat designs.
Image and Identity
Author: R. Bruce ElderPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554586771
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live? In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context. Elder examines how recent artists have tried to recognize and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He proposes the daring thesis that in their efforts to do so, artists have resorted to gnostic models of consciousness. He argues that the attempt to convey these primordial modes of awareness demands a different conception of artistic meaning from any of those that currently dominate contemporary critical discussion. By reworking theories and speech in highly original ways, Elder formulates this new conception. The works of Brakhage, Artaud, Schneeman, Cohen and others lie naked under Elder’s razor-sharp dissecting knife and he exposes the essence of their work, cutting deeply into the themes and theses from which the works are derived. His remarks on the gaps in contemporary critical practices will likely become the focus of much debate.
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