In May 1914, he went camping with him in Algonquin Park, writing about the trip: Our canoe was a 16 footer Chestnut, canvas covered, roomy & capable of carrying the weight we had to put in it, stores for two weeks, tent, blankets, a cooking oven and utensils, plates and pannekins of aluminum, fishing tackle, axe, & sketching impedimenta, this last consisting (for me) of two dozen 12 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 three ply veneer boards of birch wood back and front & soft pine inside, & good for sketching.

These fit into a holder designed to carry six & two more into a flat sketch box, also about 12 to 15 pounds of paint, oil, brushes per man.

[2]At thirty-one years of age, Lismer moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1916 and served as the Principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design (now NSCAD University).

[4] His best-known work from the war years depicted what he observed and learned about in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Mine sweeping, convoying, patrolling and harbour defense.

[7] During his time as a war artist, he wrote a booklet for the Canadian Armed Services titled How to get started: Watercolor Painting for Pleasure.

[9][A] He also worked with the cadre at Grip Ltd..[10] Arthur Lismer's style was influenced by his pre-Canadian experience (primarily in Antwerp), where he found the Barbizon and Post-Impressionist movements a key inspiration.

Like the other members of the Group of Seven many of his works began as small en plein air sketches in oil on hardboard.

[17] Lismer died on March 23, 1969, in Montreal, Quebec, and was buried alongside other members of the original Seven on the grounds of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

[23] At the Cowley Abbott Auction of An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art - Part III, December 6, 2023, lot 107, Lismer's Ragged Lake, Algonquin Park, 1914, oil on canvas 30 x 22 ins (76.2 x 55.9 cms), Auction Estimate: $250,000.00 - $350,000.00, realized a price of $504,000.00.