The Squamish reserve trailer park (Greenlights)

Trailer park on a Squamish Nation reserve by the Second Narrows Bridge, Vancouver. In Greenlights it is where Matthew McConaughey’s Airstream gets its name, “the Canoe.”

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Greenlights	Matthew McConaughey	setting	On a film shoot he parks on the reserve, befriends the chief, trades steaks for salmon, and is given a carved paddle: the Airstream becomes “the Canoe.”

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Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey (2020)

Source: Original · Readwise highlight

On one film shoot Ms. Hud and I settled into the trailer park on the Squamish Nation Indian reserve just south of the Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver, Canada.

• Role: setting
• In the book: On a film shoot he and his dog settle into a trailer park on a Squamish Nation reserve. He becomes friends with the chief, who runs off a paparazzo and trades coho salmon for his steaks; when he leaves the chief gives him a carved canoe paddle, and he names his Airstream “the Canoe.”
• Why it matters: It explains the name of the trailer that becomes his home on the road and later his first home with Camila.
• Where is it?: ⚠️ Inferred. The book says only “the Squamish Nation Indian reserve just south of the Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver” and “Livin on the river”. The Squamish reserve at the Second Narrows Bridge is Seymour Creek Indian Reserve 2, on the Seymour River at the bridge’s north end (“just south” does not quite fit, since south of the bridge is Vancouver proper); no source names the trailer park. Main alternative: the Squamish Nation’s Capilano reserve by the Lions Gate (First Narrows) Bridge, which also has an RV park.