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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 […]

One of the silver linings of the 2020 pandemic was that I got to mind the Haig-Brown House through all of the seasons.  Typically the site manager skidaddles to make room for the writer in residence between November and April, […]