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So does that mean letting Grenfell let its own tenders or backing Grenfell becoming the most expensive university in the country based on a complete lack of planning by Grenfell's current admin and the provincial government?
Most expensive uni in Canada Ed Hollett 2007
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Grenfell's engineer, who was to have put the ship together, died.
The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews
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Swarbrick had brought back the horse, and Kenna turned to Major Wyndham and gave him a seat behind, then leaving Grenfell's body they rejoined their command.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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Grenfell's heart burned in him, as the chief told how he and his men had swept up the river in their canoes armed with their spears and bows and arrows and had raided another tribe.
The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews
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PRESIDENT HARCOURT: Mr. Pratt, Past Presidents and Gentlemen: We have been thrilled in the past by Dr. Grenfell's characteristic sincerity and modesty as he unfolded the story of the beginning and the development of the work of his mission up and down the Labrador in an effort to bring help and relief, temporal, physical and spiritual to the sparsely settled district of that wild, bleak and forbidding shore.
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There in 1927 the culmination of Sir Wilfred Grenfell's work found fruit in the building of a large hospital of about eighty beds, a fine concrete building erected at Saint Anthony at the northern tip of Newfoundland.
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Among this fraternity lay Grenfell's first work, and for them the first hospitals were built.
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Wilfred Grenfell's little vessel sailed along and dropped anchor among a big fleet of schooners lying at anchor there and was the cause of instant stir and interest.
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Then, he was followed by Osbert Peek, a very rich young colliery owner from the North, and Peek got up, went over the points excusing the Managers which Grenfell had made, and it looked as if he were going to take advantage of Grenfell's speech to plead for the Managers, and suddenly he stopped and he said, I am a colliery owner.
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On learning where he had been assigned, I wrote to him, giving an account of Col. Grenfell's kindness to me on the occasion referred to, and requested him to do all in his power, consistent with his duty, to alleviate the prison life of my old army friend, who was, as a true soldier and gentleman, worthy of such consideration.
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