Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Wilfred Grenfell

Born: February 28, 1865
Died: October 9, 1940 (aged 75)
Bio: Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Known for:
- Adrift on an Ice-pan (1909)
- Down North on the Labrador (1911)
- Best of Wilfred Grenfell