The Fisherman’s Secret is a kind of prequel to The Watcher’s Club, which revolves around the double murder of a young couple at Piper’s Lagoon in 1962.
Beginning in the early 1850s, and promoted by the Hudson’s Bay Company, the discovery of quality coal drew people to a place that, by 1860, is being called “Nanaimo” . By the 1870s, with a population of about 1,000, Nanaimo is exporting huge tonnages, mainly to the U.S. via steamers.
As Nanaimo reshaped itself in the early 20th century, and as the demand for coal declined, the forest industry began to crucially prop up Nanaimo’s base economy. By the early 1950s, with the first steps in building the massive Harmac pulp mill just south of the town, coal production comes to an end.A substantial herring industry already existed, mainly processing salted herring by Japanese-Canadian owners and workers for export to China.
Their stories and lives — sometimes via gossip or hearsay — moved through our own home, and sometimes via the kids I played with. The new novel, The Fisherman’s Secret, follows a frighteningly precocious 12-year-old boy, the son of a commercial salmon fisherman, whose family is beginning to fall apart for reasons the narrator, remembering as a six-year-old who lives across the road, cannot fully understand.
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