Eight days before I go up North. Follow the Journal of My Last Spring of 1917. ttlastspring.com

Tom Thomson visits the Royal Alexandra in Toronto http://t.co/bCSa7fpVOu

At times I am moody, temperamental and deeply discouraged.

March 15, 1917 Toronto World - Get your gardening on this spring #VictoryGardens

Harris, a Theosophist, MacDonald, a Transcendentalist, I just liked to paint

March 15, 1917: Ontario Supreme Court Justice vilifying the enemy - for laughs.

March 15, 1917 Toronto World - Big changes in Russia

The world is falling apart. PM @bobbyborden in England meeting with Imperial War Cabinet. Conscription unavoidable.

1914 The Hill in Autumn #tt1914

Lawren Harris said I was a fine companion - direct, straightforward, and naturally at home in the lakes and woods.

Harris once said, "There is so very much in whitness," referring to the colours of snow

Civilization is only a veneer. Deep down everyone revolts at civilization.

The weather has been very rotten all through our trip, never dry for more than 24 hours at a time #ttletter

1916 Autumn #tt1916

No scene is ever the same the second time.

There's nothing better than dragging along another painter with you in the wilderness.

My life has been a succession of flase starts and premature endings.

I started working at Grip in 1908. That's where I met Jim MacDonald.

1917 Tea Lake Dam #upclose 1 #tt1917

There is only so much you can do with grey and light greens.