[1] After the war, he resided in Montreal but travelled extensively and painted in every Canadian province, the United States, Jamaica, Italy, France, England and Scotland.

[1] After serving in the Reserves, Tinning enlisted in the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) in 1942 as a private.

He exhibited these watercolours at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and published an article on his experiences in Canada's newest province.

[1] From 1948 to 1953, Tinning illustrated travel articles for the Lincoln-Mercury Times, a magazine published by the Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan.

Notably, one of these was written by Aldous Huxley in 1951 on Lydiard Tregoz, a house in a village in Wiltshire, England.

[1] Apart from some prestigious patrons of the English Montreal establishment, many banks, hotels, stores, and factories commissioned works by Tinning.

A series of template watercolours inspired by a French-Canadian legend was designed for rooms at the Manoir Baie Comeau, Quebec, in the 1960s; they were later destroyed by fire.

Although Montreal remained his home and was his constant inspiration, Tinning also enjoyed rural Quebec – especially the Eastern Townships around Lake Memphramagog.