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

Only a matter of days before I go up North to @mowatlodge

I once gave a doctor 4 sketches as payment for treatment. He didn't think much of the sketches and put them in the cellar.

opal and umber and claret and brick-red and sulphur against a pure pale turquoise sky

PM @bobbyborden "Full strength of the Dominion must co-operate with Empire and be thrown into struggle with delay". Lovely.

It was Lismer's readiness to accept and explore new land that made us such good companions.

The tree in my canvas is expressing how I feel right now: flat, one-dimensional against a natural landscape: hardly inspiring.

1915 Autumn Woods, Algonquin Park #tt1915

A man does not go through hell and come out an incurable optimist

I am not sure if I am liking my canvas. The tree looks too flat against the landscape behind.

When I go up North I wonder if I'll ever see Mark Robinson again. He is overseas fighting.

PM @bobbyborden is appealing for fifty thousand men for Canada's defence. I'm guess he's giving me my chance to visit France.

I was accused of going to the Dufond Indian Farm whenever I wanted to do the Rain Dance.

Just read in the papers that Tsar Nicholas has abdicated the crown in Russia. A provisional government is now in place.

I stripped my life down to its bare essential.

A not-quite-winter and a not-quite-spring today. Things froze in the Shack overnight. It'll take time to get warm.

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

Mar 16, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: CZAR NICHOLAS ABDICATES. RUSSIA OUSTS PRO-GERMANS.

1916 Algonquin Park Vista. #tt1916

I have my own way of dealing with self-inflated people.