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Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917

By 1904 I was back in Toronto. I lived in numerous boarding houses for 10 years

Stocking up on paint supplies. Don't want to put on Lawren's credit. Had to withdraw almost 3 months' worth of wages.

I'm not afraid of War or death. I'm afraid of what War does to the mind.

1915 Pine Country #tt1915

On Saturdays, Varley and I hiked the outskirts or took the ferry to Centre Island.

War is glorious for those who have nothing to lose.

Books to take along: Maurice Maeterlinck, Wilfred Campbell, Izaak Walton - philosophy, poetry and fishing.

I am not a philosophner, nor a mystic, just an inspired man struggling against heavy odds.

Representation should stay in the background of a painting. Feeling is in the foreground.

A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.

March 22, 1917 Toronto World: Derailment north of Toronto

Bought my train ticket from the GTR agent. Leave tomorrow at 8:10am Arrive at Canoe Lake 3:13 pm

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Going for a walk on the streets. An early spring snow storm.

Mar 22, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: LIVELY FIGHTING - FOE PRESSED BACK. BRITISH ADVANCE RAPIDLY OVER ENEMY'S WASTED WAKE.

Canadian Casualties only make it to Page 6 now

Toronto World Daily Cartoon, Mar 22, 1917: 'Strategical Retirement' of the Kaiser

1914 Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park #tt1914

1916 Summer Clouds