Heidi CoombsThorne

is the author of “Grenfell Mission Heroines.” She is a research associate with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University. Coombs-Thorne has a Ph.D. in history, focusing on nursing with the Grenfell Mission in northern Newfoundland and Labrador. Currently vice-president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society, she recently completed postdoctoral research on the Grenfell Mission and Labrador’s Southern Inuit.