Finding Grenfell

Tracing the Grenfell Mission in Southern Labrador

Finding Grenfell

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People of the Mission - Research Photos

This album contains all photos sourced during research for the People of the Mission interpretive panel.
12 Images
Sidney and Mary Fowler on the left. Other three men are fishermen from Newfoundland. Them Days Y061.
Dr. Wakefield takes a dip from an ice pan. The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 175-45.
Arthur Wakefield, M.D. - Evolution ? : Portrait of Mission doctor. The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 118-23.6.
A Labrador vegetable garden of the better type. Forteau, 1933. Lebe Craig at far right. The Rooms Provincial Archives VA 117-55.1.
Uncle George Holly; photo taken at Battle Harbour, c. 1920. The Rooms Provincial Archives, VA 116-46.2.
Martha Holley Cottage, St. Marys River. The Rooms Provincial Archives, IGA 33-226.
Aunt Mary and Uncle Sidney [Fowler] helping Jack Buckle get the team ready. ca. 1933. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 24-47.
Uncle Sidney digging the Mission out, Forteau (Sidney Fowler) January 1933. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 23-198.
People in a potato garden, Red Bay, 1933. Man seated is possibly Fred Sears, maybe performing a soil test. Japanese/Hawaiian agriculturist volunteered at Red Bay summer of 1933. Maybe other man standing David H Tokimasa. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 14-452.
Lebe Craig, Linda Nesbit and crew of Strathcona, many volunteers. The Rooms Provincial Archives IGA 1-268.
Mr. & Mrs. G.Holley, Fox Harbour. 1929. James Jones; Battle Harbour History Collection.
16 men standing at attention with rifles along verandah of Denison Cottage; two identified on verso: Dad first [Hubert Bromley Williams, father of Drucie Stavdal] with Dr. [Arthur] Wakefield, 6th with a medal on Labrador. The Rooms Provincial Archives, A 108-45.
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