 Correspondence between Lowry and Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (who was better known as the writer John Buchan) during this time resulted in Lowry's writing several articles for the Vancouver Province newspaper.The couple lived and wrote in a squatter's shack on the beach near the community of Maplewood in British Columbia, north of Vancouver.In 1944, the beach shack was destroyed by a fire, and Lowry was injured in his efforts to save manuscripts.