Fried Eggs and Fish Scales
Fried Eggs and Fish Scales
Marissa Yip-Young
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Kirsten Lyon
, Agnes Marshall
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Andrea Pole
, Barry Kazimer
, Linda Leitch
, Sarah Schwartz
, Beth Dekoker
, Natasa Ilic
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Marjorie Roy
, Dani Kat
, Katie Kah
, Alanna Virtue
, Cheryl Johnson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Tanya Blake
, Lori Watson
, Benita Hartwell
, Margaret McKay
, Mairi Lester
, jane luce
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Elmira Olson
, Lynn Bechtel
, Catherine Young
, BJ Underwood
, Holly Elisabeth
, Leslie Vermeer
, Janet Meisner
, Robert Hykawy
, Denise Duvall
, Joshua Lewis
, Kim Cappellina
, Joe Mitchell
, diana kirkwood
, Shannon Lee
, Hoda Montazeri
, Randi Ann Doll
, Sara Conway
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Lynn Hallson
, Joseph Chirayil
, Paula Ritchie
, Claire Gear
, Rhona Brinkman
, Karen Nordrum
, Janet Miller
, Ken Gilmour
, P. Thompson
, Melissa Kohlman
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Tracy Campbell
, Meghan Barton
, MJ Malleck
, Wayne Harrigan
, Emily Johansen
, Jennifer Beyak
, Sharon Forzley
, Melissa Dingwall
, Stephen Pinder
, Thelma Ball
, Carson Loveless
, Nora Gould
, Mel Barroso
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Heather Belliveau
, Yolande Thivierge
, Janice Cournoyer
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Melissa Poremba
, Lynn Andrews
, Rachel Edmonds
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, M M English
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Longtime fisherman and Sointula resident Jon Taylor dishes up hilarious yarns from his life off northern Vancouver Island.
Capturing the “rough but reasonable” freedom of Malcolm Island, situated off the northeast shore of Vancouver Island, Jon Taylor recounts the bizarre but enticing lifestyle of a fisherman and his remote community—“haywire tightwads” for skippers, rotten fish in the hold that become “three thousand humpies in a warm, pink soup,” and the kind of integrity you don’t often see.
Jon Taylor’s family history on Malcolm Island extends back to 1917, when Taylor’s Finnish grandparents planned to move to the community of Sointula, to live among fellow expats who shared a language and a dream. However, Taylor recounts, upon seeing the island they promptly changed their minds and moved to Cuba. Taylor himself moved to Malcolm Island in 1976 and became a steadfast resident, embracing the fishboat life, for better or worse, aboard seiners, gillnetters and his own troller. Taylor captures a classic but now-disappearing way of life in its heyday with his vibrant and amusing vignettes.
