Books by Peter Johnson

2. Peter Johnson, Quarantined: Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959 .  British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story.  Leprosy, smallpox, and meningitis are a few of the drivers of the narrative.  It continues to startle me how much pandemics and quarantines are a kind of lost history, though they are extremely prominent in 19th century fiction.