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A Measure of Value : The Story of the D'Arcy Island Leper Colony

2000

Between 1891 and 1924, D'Arcy Island, near Victoria, B.C., was a prison for a society of outcasts. The press called them "The Unfortunates." Why? They had leprosy and they were Chinese. Their only contact with the outside world was a supply ship that came every three months to drop off food, opium and coffins.

Follow one "unfortunate," Lim Sam, on his journey from China to Victoria to Nanaimo, and finally to D'Arcy Island, where this little society cared for each other, planted their gardens, and dreamed of going home.

They lived and died unquoted and unrecorded. That they lived is acknowledged only by fifteen unmarked graves on a tiny island in Haro Strait. It is the author's hope that this book returns a measure of value to their lives.

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Authors

C. J Yorath

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173)
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
362.1/96998/00971128
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
21
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-bc
ISBN
0920663737 9781459331631
LCCN
RC154.55.C32
LCCN Item number
D378 2000eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
DLC
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (176 p.)
Published in
Canada
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)thg00604565 (OCoLC)605725564 (CaOOCEL)419953
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
DLC

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