Rebel With A Cause: The Doc Nikaido Story
by Bretton Loney

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Rebel With A Cause: The Doc Nikaido Story is a compelling account of how Canada’s shameful treatment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II impacted one man: the rebellious Dr. Harry Nikaido. Turning his back on material things, Doc practised medicine in small-town Alberta, living a bohemian lifestyle and charging no more for his services than what he absolutely needed to survive. He paid little or no income tax over his 24-year career to get back at the Canadian Government, whom he never forgave for the forcible resettlement of his family and 22,000 other Japanese-Canadians from British Columbia during World War II. This unique man found a welcoming community and extended family in Bow Island, Alberta after Canada had turned its back on him and branded him an enemy. Decades may have passed since his death, but for the residents of Bow Island and surrounding area his unique personality, generosity, and dedication will never be forgotten.

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“I was just blown away by Bretton Loney’s book. I couldn’t leave it alone. Loney has done a magnificent job in putting together a compelling and meaningful portrait of a man who truly deserves to be remembered. For those of us who knew him and were his friends, we can never thank Loney enough." —Robin Dann, close friend of Dr. Harry Nikaido. “Rebel With A Cause tells the true story of a caring, maverick family doctor in Bow Island, Alberta and forcefully reminds us of a shameful period in our country’s history and the impact it had on real people like Harry Nikaido. Bretton Loney is ideally placed to tell Dr. Nikaido’s story. He grew up in Bow Island and went on to a distinguished career as a journalist as well as a fiction writer. In Rebel, he brings together his journalistic ability to dig deeper with his fiction writer’s sense of storytelling to find the heart of Doc’s story. The result is an entertaining, important read.” —Stephen Kimber, Author, columnist and journalism professor at the University of King’s College, Halifax.

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Born and raised in Bow Island, Alberta, Bretton Loney, is an award-winning former journalist, columnist, and editor at both The Daily News and The Chronicle-Herald in Halifax, as well as The Telegram in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. A communications director with the Government of Nova Scotia, Loney is an avid reader and lover of history, as well as a published fiction writer, with stories appearing in a number of Canadian literary magazines and short-story anthologies. He lives in Halifax with his wife, Karen Shewbridge.

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