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• Scan the story quickly.
• Read the story carefully.
• Visualize the details
• Remember the sequence of events

Labrador Doctor

“In 1892, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell went to live and work in Labrador. He wanted to help the poor people there who had no doctor. For forty-two years he worked among the people he loved. His first small mission finally grew into four hospitals before he died.

Dr. Grenfell learned to travel like the people of Labrador, by dog-sled in his Eskimo furs, and slept on the trail at thirty degrees below zero with his dogs.

The danger of travelling alone on the ice or in the cold never held Dr. Grenfell back. More than once he nearly gave his life to help someone else;

On Easter Sunday in 1908, two men brought a message from Brent Island that a boy was very sick. Grenfell was afraid the boy might die. He set off alone across Hare Bay with his komatik, an Eskimo sled, with a team of dogs. Spring was coming, and the ice started to soften.

Suddenly the ice broke. Dr. Grenfell swam through the icy cold water to cut his dogs free. The he and the dogs climbed up on a large block of floating ice.

Adapted from, Intermediate English Skills Development Series Book 3, 3C Sequence of Events