The International Grenfell Association (IGA) is an organization founded by Sir Wilfred Grenfell to provide health care, education, religious services, and rehabilitation and other social activities to the fisherman and costal communities in northern Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador.
The IGA was incorporated in Canada on January 10, 1914, under the Companies Act of 1899.
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