Indian Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador

Indian Harbour is a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Indian Harbour
Indian Harbour
Location of Indian Harbour in Newfoundland and Labrador
Coordinates: 54.4727°N 57.185835°W / 54.4727; -57.185835
Country Canada
Province Newfoundland and Labrador

In 1894, Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary, founded a cottage hospital there, staffed by two doctors and two nurses.[1]

Background

In 1912 Harry Paddon and Mina Gilchrist arrived as doctor and nurse. They provided medical services to the Newfoundland fishing fleets as well as the local population. In the fall they sailed 150 miles west to Mud Lake and established a medical outpost in an abandoned lumber camp, returning to Indian Harbour in the spring. In 1915 they established a hospital at North West River and began a seasonal migration that lasted 20 years. Harry and Mina married in 1913 and had four sons.[2]

In the late 1920s and early 30s, Australian nurse Kate Merrick worked at the Grenfell Mission.[3] She later wrote a memoir about her time at Indian Harbour titled Northern Nurse (1942); in fact, the memoir was written by her husband the author Elliott Merrick, and was based on her memories.[4] The book was well received spending 17 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.[5]

Notable inhabitants

References
  1. Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason (1919). A Labrador Doctor: The Autobiography of Wilfred T. Grenfell (PDF). Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  2. Paddon, Harry (2003). The Labrador memoir of doctor Harry Paddon (1st ed.). Montreal: McGill Queens's. p. xxiv–xxvii. ISBN 0-7735-2505-X. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  3. Humber, E. A. (2008). "The Shape of Authenticity in Elliott Merrick's Northern Nurse". Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. 23 (1). Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  4. Elliot Merrick (1942). Northern Nurse.
  5. Wolfgang Saxon (May 1, 1997). "Elliott Merrick, 91; Wrote Stories Set in Labrador". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2020.


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