We look like a married couple, we aren't bothered by the recruiters or the White Feather Brigade.

I walk with Louise up University Avenue and over to Elm where the YWCA was. It's nice. She holds my arm,.

I made my first trip to Algonquin just after meeting Fred Varley

Recruiters are everywhere at the station. Marching bands with signs 'Free Trip to Europe'

We arrive at Union Station.. Recruiters were everywhere. A marching band with signs ‘Free trip to Europe’ is on the platform.

The difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts longer - Oscar Wilde.

Jackson had the greater initiative and was as indifferent to material ambition as I was

Other signs indicats that it is 'National Service Week' and that every man should be filling out the questionnaire.

Louise Julyan is on the train too. She wants to talk about painting. I don't.

If you are to remain true as an artist, you need to remain true to the art you first learned as a craftsmen.

Boarding the CPR Train Owen Sound to Toronto

Jan 2, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: MARTIAL LAW AT KITCHENER, ONT.

Painting is an act of intimacy without repercussions.

Louise does most of the talking, I don't like talking about my paintings, and she says she wants to visit me in the shack.

Nature is not poor, she gives me joy.

In June 1915, Jackson enlisted as a private in the Sixtieth Battalion

I've enjoyed my stay up in Owen Sound but after a time I begin to feel trapped into my past and I need to move on.

Father and Mother wantme to stay a few days longer but I said I need to get back to my work. I have a lot to do.

My father thought his boys owed him a living and forced us to stay on the farm until 21.

1915 Maple Woods Bare Trunks #tt1915

Being right isn't all there is to life.

Square dances are a good way of getting to know women while keeping your options open.

I picked up the habit of drinking when I was young

I was accused of painting 'diseased trees'

You can't change the boy, so buy him the Lightning Hockey Shoe.

Civilization is a disease, barbarianism is a restoration of health - Julius Meier-Graefe 1908

The economy was in a slump in 1914. The fact that someone chose to be a full-time artist was viewed as frivolous

Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?

What would I have done if I lived past the age of forty?

Toronto World: Nov 27 1916: FRENCH REPULSE GERMANS IN VIOLENT FIGHTING AT VERDUN

Avoid entering a canoe with anyone who displays evangelical fervour.

Unlike my artist friends, I never took any formal training.

At times I am moody, temperamental and deeply discouraged.

I wanted to be a sailor or enlist in the Boer War but my father wouldn't let me go.

All the big lumbermen are on Grand Lake.

I would produce more from uninspired material while my chums were of searching for inspired material.

Wake up..

I had the reputation of being an ornery person on occasion and a womanizer.

Harris tried to convince me of Theosophy. I still don't know what it is.

It is our savage nature gives us creativity and passion.

Jackson said it wasn't about Canadian art, it was ending our dependence on stale European tradtions

I am generous to the point of being careless about money.

Avoid entering a canoe with anyone who displays evangelical fervour.

Mystery is not the same a misunderstanding.

Jun 8, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: GREAT BRITISH VICTORY. CRITICAL SITUATION FOR FEDERAL POLITICAL PARTIES.

Every man passes his life in search for friendship.