- Born: 28 FEB 1865 – Parkgate, England
- Died: 09 OCT 1940 – Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA
- Achievements:
- Elected first honorary M.D. of the University of Oxford in 1907
- Honorary degrees from St. Andrews University and many universities and colleges both in the United States and in Canada
- Elected an honorary fellow of the College of Surgeons of America in 1915
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1920
- Appointed C.M.G. in 1906
- Appointed K.C.M.G. in 1927
- Elected lord rector of St. Andrews University in 1928
- Awarded the gold medal of the Royal Empire Society in 1935
- Elected an honorary fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford in 1936
- Works:
- Vikings of Today (1895)
- The Harvest of the Sea (1905)
- Off the Rocks (1906)
- A Man’s Faith (1908)
- Adrift on an Ice-Pan (1909)
- Down to the Sea (1910)
- Labrador, the Country and the People (1910)
- A Man’s Helpers (1910)
- What Life Means to Me (1910)
- What Will You Do with Jesus Christ? (1910)
- What the Church Means to Me (1911)
- Down North on Labrador (1911)
- On Mortality (1912)
- The Adventure of Life (1912)
- The Attractive Way (1913)
- The Prize of Life (1914)
- Tales of the Labrador (1916)
- Labrador Days (1919)
- A Labrador Doctor (1919)
- Northern Neighbors (1923)
- The Christmas in Peace Haven, and Three Eyes (1923)
- Yourself and Your Body (1924)
- Religion in Everyday Life (1926)
- What Christ Means to Me (1926)
- Labrador Looks at the Orient (1928)
- Labrador’s Fight for Economic Freedom (1929)
- The Fisherman’s Saint (1930)
- Forty Years for Labrador (1932)
- Deed of Daring (1934)
- The Romance of Labrador (1934)
- A Labrador Logbook (1938)
- Grenfell Mats (1994)
- Died: 09 OCT 1940 – Lake Champlain, Vermont, USA