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Eric Wickham was born in the small BC coastal fishing village of Bamfield in 1942. For fifty years he was active in BC’s fishing industry as a commercial fisherman and as an advocate for commercial fishermen in their struggle with big government. He is past president of the Pacific Blackcod Association, the Fishermen’s Abalone Association and the Halibut Fishermen’s Association, and is a past member of the Ministry of Fisheries Advisory Council. He is now retired and lives in Western Australia but returns to British Columbia regularly.
Edward Cepka grew up in Port Alberni when it was a thriving MacMillan and Bloedel company town—prosperous, industrious, and steeped in the belief that good times would last forever. Fascinated by the town’s layered history—the contrasts between working-class grit, lingering colonial wealth, and the shadow of the residential school—he began exploring its stories early on. Summers spent in the mills and forests deepened his understanding of the place. After studying English and Architecture at UBC, Cepka watched from afar as the mills closed and the town faded. What began as a pioneer saga evolved into a darkly comic meditation on colonization, environmental loss, and the ghosts of prosperity past.
