Complex sentence: Hessay's first home in British Columbia after World War II was a shanty on Passage Island, and in spite of being impaired by shell-stock, he took up the life of a commercial fisherman.
Split into simpler sentences: Hessay's first home in British Columbia after World War II was a shanty on Passage Island. In spite of being impaired by shell-stock, he took up the life of a commercial fisherman.