D'Arcy Island
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D'Arcy Island is an 83-hectare island in Haro Strait, south of Sidney Island and east of the Saanich Peninsula. It is the southernmost of the Gulf Islands and is part of the Gulf Islands National Park
D'Arcy Island from the west
Chinese lepers on D'Arcy Island in the 1890s
Leper colony
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A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy.
Spinalonga on Crete, Greece, one of the last leprosy colonies in Europe, closed in 1957
Culion leper colony in Culion old town in Palawan, Philippines used to shelter one of the largest populations of people with leprosy in Asia, numbering between 3,500–4,000.
Taddiport in North Devon, England, formerly a medieval leper colony
Abandoned nun's quarters at the leper colony on Chacachacare Island in Trinidad and Tobago