The Library of Roderick Haig-Brown

Beginning in the 1950s, celebrated writer and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown, together with his wife (and school librarian) Ann, compiled an impressive collection of books in their home near the Campbell River on Vancouver Island. Recent writer in residence at the library Andrew Nikiforuk writes about exploring the shelves of the collection in a recent piece on Resilience. “A good library,” Nikiforuk writes, “much like the flow of a river, suspends time and invites the idle wader to subversively reflect on lives fully lived.”