Wilfred Grenfell

The reindeer herd eventually disappeared; however the parasite took hold and causes cerebrospinal elaphostronglyosis (CSE) in caribou a disease well known in reindeer in Scandinavia. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell KCMG (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Although originally founded to serve the local fiWilfred Grenfellrmen the mission developed to include the aboriginal peoples and settlers along the coasts of Labrador and the eastern side of the Great Northern Peninsula of northern Newfoundland.

Algernon Sidney Grenfell headmaster of Mostyn House School and Jane Georgiana Hutchison and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago Illinois in 1909. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell KCMG (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. They had three children and retired to Vermont after his work in Newfoundland.