The Price Paid
for Charley is the true story of
world-famous doctor Sir Wilfred Grenfell and the
legendary perils he encountered in 1908. In the
town of Englee, Newfoundland, young Charley
Hancock was in need of immediate medical
attention. When word of his condition
reached Dr. Grenfell, he set out with his
beloved dog team in a race against time to
perform a life-saving operation on the boy. But
Grenfell's determination turned to desperation
when he attempted to cross the ice in Hare Bay
and found himself stranded upon the
ever-churning ice floes in the dead of winter.
With his patient barely clinging to life and the
boy's family despairing that the doctor would
not reach him in time, Grenfell faced the grim
reality that he too was about to die.
