Harris was scared of usng bright colours.

The stove and ladder to my bunk.

Nighttime in the Shack. You can see my bunk above.

Dr MacCallum encouraged Jackson to have an art show at the Arts and Letters club in 1913. Critics were merciless.

Back in Toronto I lived in various boarding houses on Yonge and Elm Street.

1914 Smoke Lake #tt1914 Oil on wood 8 11/16 x 10 1/2 in. Power Corporation.

Fred Varley tried to play matchmaker but I felt unworthy of the match.

First day of spring. There's no time to waste. Things never change as quickly for the better than they do in spring.

If he be an honest Angler, may the east-wind never blow when he is fishing I. Walton

1916 Windy Day Canoe Lake #tt1916

1917 Spring #tt1917

Through you have nothing to do, you have hardly any time to spare when you are alone in the woods

I'll help Shannon Fraser @mowatlodge bring in the ice blocks for summer. I hope he kept the snow off lake patch to get good ice.

1917 Early Spring, Algonquin Park #tt1917

1917 Early Spring, Algonquin Park #tt1917

1917 Early Spring Canoe Lake. #tt1917

In the summer of 1915 the Lismers moved in with the MacDonalds to farm for cash crops.

Annie Fraser threw out the OUIJA board @mowatlodge but you can still follow the journal of my last spring.

1914 Evening Wind Wooded Point and Rough Water #tt1914

Art critic Carl Ahrens said it was the European Gestalt embraced by the Canadian artists led to the War.