The thought of leprosy fills most of us with horror. Perhaps because of this, it’s a disease most of us like to think does not exist in the modern world. We’ve relegated it to faraway lands and far off times. In fact, it does exist today, and it wasn’t all that far away or even that long ago. D’Arcy is a lonely little Salish Sea island just south of Sidney Island on British Columbia’s south coast. Located in Haro Strait […]

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