Advert from Bell Telephone Canada, March 16, 1917

A big headline in the Globe today

I hate authority being imposed on me

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

Jackson knew how to draw out my talent rather than hammering in me technique.

I feel like it is my duty to paint canvases but my real joy is sketching my boards,

March 16, 1917 Picture of Bloor St. Viaduct construction

1912 Cliff by the Lake #tt1912

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

March 16, 1917 Toronto World - I think the Czar is finished, truly finished

Writing a letter to Shannon Fraser @mowatloge. I hope to catch the morning post.

Don't think you are better because you can praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbour's clumsiness

In South River, I once had a lunch of baloney, biscuits and a bottle of pop.

To be immortal you have to die young.

The city has cranks full of enthusiasm and theory but with little practical experience

1916 Islands, Canoe Lake #upclose No 1. #tt1917

I have no fear of loneliness and making myself inconspicuous.

My hair falls in a shock over my forehead

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

My neighbours never thought of my father as a serious farmer.