 The hut is maintained by the Alpine Club of Canada.The hut was built by the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) in 1965 as a project proposed and largely overseen by noted author and alpinist William Lowell Putnam III, who later became president of the American Alpine Club for several years and a long-term board member.In 1973 the hut was renovated and considerably enlarged, a project again largely funded and overseen by Putnam.