In my early days back in Toronto, I enjoyed the city immensely. I was a bit of a dandy.

Dr MacCallum's enthusiasm for art far outstrips his knowledge of it.

Jim MacDonald is a fan of Van Gogh. Me too.

Gilmour Company closed its operation on Canoe Lake in 1900

1903 Girl Looking in a Mirror

I don't confront issues. I just eliminate them from my way of living.

As a youth I spent a year out of school because of illness. It gave me time to wander alone in nature.

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

My journal entry for June 2nd, 1917 https://wp.me/p2YBXq-1fA

I am interested in the technical side of painting rather than the theoretical.

1914 Evening Wind Wooded Point and Rough Water #tt1914

Letter to Florence https://wp.me/p2YBXq-1fy

Guiding yourself to bed by candlelight makes life feel less complicated.

Rocks on Near Shore with Sunset Clouds

Pine Trees and Shore

A fine evening at Mowat Lodge - Shannon Fraser is on the left of the fireplace - Annie to the right http://t.co/okq8wYo4

Don't mistake the map for the territory.

I saw the challenges Fred Varley providing for his family. I didn't want that.

I don't talk much. I would rather sit on the floor, back against the wall, playing my mandolin.

1913 Moonlight #tt1913

Shannon insists that we take a picture of the catch, all strung on a line, before we clean them for dinner.

The Colsons are holding an Ecumenical Service on Sovereign's Day, June 3rd. Shannon @mowatlodge calls it an 'Economical Service'

Know the price of free advice.

Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?

Love art whether you accept it or not.

My blue palette: Cerulean, Cobalt, Prussian, and Ultramarine

1917 Women's Canoe fashion: The Middy Blouse and Pleated Skirt.

If you want to be a critic of mine, be familiar with the trees, rocks, lakes, rivers, have them in your bones

Me: 'I don't think I'll be coming back to Toronto. I told you I am planning about going out West.'

My sketches are truth itself.

Hard canoeing against the wind. Canoeing into the waves so we don't tip.

I picked up the habit of drinking when I was young

May 20, 1917 New moon tonight

A light rain starts. We decide to call it a day and retire to the tents.

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

In 1916 I worked with Ed Godin, following the Booth lumber drives down the Ottawa

@WinnieTrainor greets me out front, she invites me inside for coffee with her parents.

There are advantages to remaining free, especially as an artist with little to no earnings.

Harris experiments with broken colour.

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