In 1932, outport Newfoundland
was rife with poverty. The many small communities that dotted the Great
Northern Peninsula were particularly vulnerable to hunger and disease. When
two brothers from Englee were suddenly stricken with typhoid fever, a call
was put out to the Grenfell Mission in St. Anthony. Carl Hammerstrom, a
young American doctor, answered the call and travelled to Englee to take the
two men back to St. Anthony for treatment. The young doctor would face his
greatest challenge yet when the ship he and his two patients were travelling
on became storm-bound on the Grey Islands en route to St. Anthony. Time grew
short for the two patients, and the doctor feared they would die before
rescuers could come.
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