Only 58 days before I meet my fate on July 8, 1917 #TomThomson ?1

I was fascinated with watching the tumbling logs coming through the dams.

A painting's power is from differences of colour working together.

Someone once observed that I like art better than women.

I did my best work when I was not the best of company.

1915 Round Lake Mud Bay #tt1915

I am plain and easy-going as an old shoe.

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May 11, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: BIG OFFENSIVE IS LAUNCHED ON MACEDONIAN FRONT.

Eastern Kingbird arrives today in @algonquin_pp #migratorybirds

Common Yellowthroat arrives today in @algonquin_pp #migratorybirds

Least Sandpiper arrives today in @algonquin_pp #migratorybirds

Canoe Lake Forecast: 5/11/1917 High: 64.9F Low: 32F Rain: 0 inches.

Jackson had the greater initiative and was as indifferent to material ambition as I was

I stayed over often at Fred and Maude Varley. The cot was always ready

1916-17 Jack Pine #upclose

Park Rule: Netting game fish or killing them by explosives is expressly forbidden.

My first long canoe trip was in 1911 with Bill Broadhead to Biscotasing and Mississagi Provincial Forest.

May 7, 1915 was not a good day to be a German in Ontario - the day of the sinking of the Lusitania.

Expression is a spiritual necessity: self-glorification is a lack of something to express.

Nothing focuses the mind better than a portage through the woods followed by a bear.

Will expect you either Friday or Saturday and will not go over to Highland Inn unless you want specially to start out from there.

1914 Split Rock Gap #tt1914

1910 Logging Camp #tt1910

You work with your mind not with your hands

I am prey to those old haunting moods - mistrust of myself and my abilities

Better to be wise and silent than a fool who speaks out

I've never painted anything I've not seen in my heart

It's never too early or too late to start anew.

In 1916 Thomas Edison started taking yearly camping trips to escape the modern life he created.

I am going over to Lowrie Dickon's. He's the only one who has whisky in the Park.

I was a big fan of Charlie Chaplin. I had a few Chaplin stunts to dazzle my friends.

One week camping with two men and no fishing requires seven lbs of bacon.

1917 Winter Thaw #upclose No. 1 #tt1917

Is my duty to be in the trenches, killing or being killed in the name of love of country?

While I am painting trees in Algonquin Arthur Lismer is painting ships in Halifax. S. S. Olympic in Dazzle.

I had a love of music, especially the Mendelssohn Choir in Toronto

My mood is not the best today. I feel like a dead tree on the shores of Canoe Lake.

My sketch of Northern Lights

Avoid companions that insist on claiming the stern seat in a canoe.