The Volcano (British Columbia) Volcano" is generic. In speech it may not be obvious whether "The Volcano" or "the volcano" is intended, leading to confusion. Similar named volcanoes in Canada include Volcano Vent in the Tuya volcanic field of northwestern British Columbia and Volcano Mountain in the Fort Selkirk volcanic field of central Yukon. As of 2009, the unofficial terms for The Volcano continue to be used by Natural Resources Canada. The Volcano, its eruptive products and a large mineral spring are protected in Lava Forks Provincial Park. Founded in 2001 as a Class A provincial park, this highly remote park covers an area
Under the Volcano 1984 it served as the basis of a film of the same name. In 1998 the Modern Library ranked "Under the Volcano" at number 11 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Lowry had already published one novel, "Ultramarine" (1933), by the time he was working on "Under the Volcano", and in 1936 wrote a short story called "Under the Volcano" containing the kernel of the future novel. That story was not published until the 1960s; passages of it are found also in the account of Sigbjorn Wilderness, found in "Dark as the Grave