BY LAND AND BY SEA: The memoirs of a Master Mariner who brought 75 Baltic refugees to Canada in 1948 on the fishing boat Ostervag. Evald Past was a WWII refugee who sought a better life for his family in the New World. A Master Mariner from Estonia, he was also a maritime author. As a displaced person in Sweden, Past sought to immigrate overseas. In 1948, he sailed Ostervag across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada with 75 DP's and then became a homebuilder in Victoria, BC. His memoirs describe the challenges overcome by many immigrants of that era.
- ISBN:
- 9780986751004
- 9780986751004
- Category:
- Biography: general
- Publication Date:
- 15-02-2015
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Booklocker.com, Incorporated
- Country of origin:
- United States
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