When the Japanese castaways arrived at Fort Vancouver in the summer of 1834, they encountered the settlement at the fort, one of the first multicultural centers in North America, known simply as“The Village.” Despite the systemic racial inequality, it thrived as people all over the world, and around the region, converged to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. With the arrival of any Hudson's Bay Company ship, the villagers became excited, awaiting for news from abroad

To outsiders eating their lobster suppers in New Glasgow or fish and chips on the patio at North Rustico Harbour with decor of lobster traps and fishing nets watching the sun settling into the sea, life on the east coast seems idyllic. After reading Quentin Casey’s book THE SEA WAS IN THEIR BLOOD (2017, Nimbus Publishing), I discovered the realities were anything but. The book is about the disappearance of a fishing vessel, the Miss Ally, from the tight-knit community of Wood