About Eric W. Sager Eric W. Sager is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria and author of Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820–1914. Books by Eric W. Sager Inequality in Canada The History and Politics of an Idea by (author) Eric W. Sager Household Counts Canadian Households and Families in 1901 edited by Peter Baskerville & Eric W. Sager Ships and Memories Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam by (author) Eric W. Sager