W.N. (Nick) Marach (1941-2016) was born and raised in Wawa, Ontario, and studied architecture at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia. In 1972, he bought the T.K., an old thirty-two-foot gillnetter, and for the next decade he fished every salmon season and worked as an architect at several Vancouver firms as time allowed. His 2014 memoir, A Gillnet’s Drift, documents the years he spent with his wife, Veronica, fishing up and down the BC coast.