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Roderick Haig-Brown

Roderick L. Haig-Brown (1908-1976) was a Canadian writer, magistrate and conservationist. A prolific writer, he is the author of twenty-eight books and hundreds of articles, essays and poems. Some of the titles include Saltwater Summer (Governor General Award Winner, 1948), A River Never Sleeps, and Fisherman's Summer. In recognition of his contribution to Canadian environmental literature, the Haig-Brown name has been gifted to a national park near Kamloops, a Canada Council sponsored writer-in-residence retreat near Campbell River, and a mountain on Vancouver Island.

Books by Roderick Haig-Brown

Alison's Fishing Birds

Fisherman's Summer

Measure of the Year

Panther

The Whale People

Starbuck Valley Winter

Seasons of a Fisherman, The

Saltwater Summer

Fisherman's Winter