Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
Edited by Ronald Rompkey
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health and Society
Copyright Date: 2001
Published by: McGill-Queen's University Press
Pages: 392
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Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission
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While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs of St Anthony and life in the household of the Grenfell workers. After she left Newfoundland, Luther became one of the pioneers of occupational therapy in the United States, spending the rest of her professional life as director of occupational therapy at the Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.

eISBN: 978-0-7735-6915-7
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-x)
  3. Acknowledgments
    Acknowledgments (pp. xi-xvi)
    R.G.R.
  4. Introduction
    Introduction (pp. xvii-xli)
    Ronald Rompkey

    Near the top of the northern peninsula of Newfoundland, within an inlet of St Anthony Bight, St Anthony harbour offers the mariner two advantages. As an anchorage, it provides deep water and good holding ground with plenty of room to swing; as a port, it gives ample protection from wind and swell and from floating ice borne south by the Labrador Current. St Anthony and its adjacent ports attracted European fishermen as early as the sixteenth century – Jacques Cartier mentioned it in 1534 on his way north from Cap Rouge.¹ By that time, it was already a seasonal fishing station....

  5. Maps
    Maps (pp. xlii-xlvi)
  6. JESSIE LUTHER AT THE GRENFELL MISSION Foreword
    JESSIE LUTHER AT THE GRENFELL MISSION Foreword (pp. 1-298)

    Off the southern tip of Labrador, a small island, rocky, bleak and barren like the nearby coast, rises precipitously from the sea – Belle Isle. Like a sentinel it guards the way to the greater island of Newfoundland, held in the jaws of t he Gulf of St. L awrence, its northern boundary the Strait of Belle Isle and Labrador, Cabot Strait and Cape Breton Island to the south. In my early school days that irregular island, shaped like a mutton chop and colored pink in my geography book, stimulated my curiosity. It seemed remote and inaccessible. I wondered how one...

  7. Notes
    Notes (pp. 299-328)
  8. Bibliography
    Bibliography (pp. 329-338)
  9. Index
    Index (pp. 339-344)
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