St Anthony

Town in northwestern Newfoundland, near the northern tip of the Great Northern Peninsula; population (1991) 3,200. As Saint-Antoine, it was originally a French fishing station. It was resettled by Newfoundlanders in the mid-19th century, and became a key port in Newfoundland–Labrador trade.

In 1900 the English physician and missionary Wilfred Grenfell (1865–1940) established a mission hospital here, and the Grenfell Association, serving coastal fishing communities nearby and in Labrador, has been based in the town since 1912. Grenfell's home is now the Grenfell House Museum and the headquarters of the Grenfell Historical Society.