Locations > Ontario > St. Judes Cemetery

Following the burning if his shack in 1944, Lowry fled to Ontario and stayed with his friends Gerald and Betty Noxon. The Ontario sequence at the beginning of chapter ten entered the novel at this point.

… the cemetery in the dappled moonlight of a single street lamp, the deep thick grass, the towering obelisk lost in the Milky Way. Jull, it said on the monument. What had the Station Master said? The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot? – UTV, 284.

This monument to the Jull family may be found in St Jude's cemetery, Oakville, Ontario. Photos courtesy of Mrs Mae Heath, Oakville.