Roderick Haig-Brown lived with his wife Ann and their four children in a modest farmhouse on the banks of the Campbell River.  Roderick was a writer and magistrate, as well as a respected advocate for the environment and social justice. 

I paraphrase Chilean poet and conceptual artist Cecilia Vicuña, who says, writing is a social life. Receding into the privacy of a quiet study in a small town to work on a story, is in some ways antithetical to writing