Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . t. Johns on business connectedwith his office. While staying at Government House,the late Sir Terence OBrien, then Governor of theColony, drew his attention to the great fleet of fishingvessels and the enormous transient population visitingthe coast of Labrador every summer. Sir Francis wasa Director of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen,which had been carrying on, and still continues, sucha noble work among the fishermen in the North Sea.The probability that the fishing population of Labradorwere equally in need of the services of the Mis
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Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . t. Johns on business connectedwith his office. While staying at Government House, the late Sir Terence OBrien, then Governor of theColony, drew his attention to the great fleet of fishingvessels and the enormous transient population visitingthe coast of Labrador every summer. Sir Francis wasa Director of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, which had been carrying on, and still continues, sucha noble work among the fishermen in the North Sea.The probability that the fishing population of Labradorwere equally in need of the services of the Mission wasat once apparent to him ; and when he returned toEngland he brought the matter to the notice of thatSociety, with the result that in the following yearDr. Grenfell, in the Mission ship Albert, was sent outto investigate this new field of labour. The Albert arrived in St. Johns on July 9th, 1892, the day after the great fire which destroyed two-thirdsof the city, and left 15, 000 people homeless. Proceeding shortly on his destined voyage, Dr. 454. DK. WILFRED GREXFELL^ OF.G. Facing p. 454 DR. WILFRED GRENFELL, C.M.G. 455 Grenfell found the population, both resident and tran-sient, of the long, dreary Labrador coast, in greaterneed of help than the homeless thousands of St. Johns.But their condition was not the result of any suddencatastrophe. Long years of isolation, privation, ignorance, and neglect had reduced the residents ofthe country to the depths of poverty and misery, andthe floating population was in but little better case. The origin of the liveyeres, as the residents arecalled, has been already given. These poor peoplebecome extraordinarily attached to their homes, un-attractive as they may appear to inhabitants of morefavoured portions of the globe. It has often beensuggested that the best method of settling theirproblem would be to take them all off the coastand place them v/here they could earn a livelihood, and be in touch with civilization. But it is not atal