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

por Chris Yorath

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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.… (mais)
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This came up recently on a Name That Book thread. It is not particularly well-written, but it does shed some light on an obscure bit of Canadian history. In 1891, the city of Victoria BC started a leper colony on a small island. The city provided food, clothing and shelter, and other than that, the men were just left on their own. Over the 15 years that Victoria ran the colony, the population ranged from 2 to 9 men, almost all Chinese immigrants.

The book is short, since there was little official documentation, and no accounts were ever given by the men who lived and died on the island. The author fills the story out with a fictionalized account of one of the inmates. This combination of fiction and nonfiction is a technique that I don't care much for, but some people might like it. At times the nonfiction sections read like lists of data, sometimes with the same piece of information repeated on two different pages. ( )
  SylviaC | Jan 20, 2016 |
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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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