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.