At the end of World War I, after four years of unimaginableman-made destruction, a swiftly killing virus travelled the planet. Up to onehundred million people perished in the most lethal pandemic in recordedhistory, the so-called “Spanish" influenza. More than half those who died wereyoung adults aged between twenty and forty. Nowhereon earth was the flu more deadly than in isolated settlements on the farnortheastern coast of North America. In WeAll Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918–1919Anne Budgell reconstructs the horrific impact ofthe pandemic in hard-hit Labrador locations, such as the Inuit villages of Okakand Hebron where the mortality rate was 71%. Using the recollections ofsurvivors, diaries kept at the time, Hudson’s Bay Company journals, newspaperreports, and government documents, this powerful and uncompromising book tellsthe story of how the flu travelled to Labrador and wreaked havoc there. Itexamines how people dealt with the emergency, when all were sick and few werewell enough to care for others, and how authorities elsewhere refused toprovide assistance. The story WeAll Expected to Die reveals isboth devastating and haunting. It is a story of great loss, but also of humanendurance, heroism, and survival. | We All Expected to Die by Anne Budgell, Paperback | Indigo Chapters