Malcolm Lowry, Author, lived with his wife Margerie in a squatter's shack near this site from 1940-1954. His writings have won the Governor General's award for fiction and his novel,

Lowry found happiness and inspiration in his "beloved shack," and descriptions of the landscape permeate his works,"the tiered aluminum retorts of the oil refinery," "the white fire of the mist," and "wild ducks doing sixty downwind." Although compelled to leave in 1954, Lowry dreamed of returning to his "paradise."

Dedicated at the Malcolm Lowry Symposium
by Mayor Marilyn Baker
District of North Vancouver
May 13, 1987.