There he met his future partner Constance Brissenden, a writer and editor, at a free creative writing class in the city's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

[5] In 2019, Loyie's archive was donated to the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia.

[8] Loyie's children's book As Long as the Rivers Flow (2005) recounts his last summer before entering residential school.

[10] Larry Loyie's works have frequently been used in classroom instruction related to the history of residential schools in Canada.

[12] Reviews of Goodbye Buffalo Bay have praised Loyie's open and candid writing style in a work that explores his experiences in Canada's residential school system and after.