Support such as this was significant, as it was a struggle for women at the time to cross the conventional social boundary lines and succeed as an artist.

[9] Her work has been favourably compared to that of A. Y. Jackson[10] and in 1930 she won Honourable mention at the Second Willingdon Arts Competition, placing second to Frederick Varley.

[11] Morris painted scenes of urban and pre-industrial rural Quebec[b] not in support of a French Canadian identity but to suggest that the "primitive" could provide a sanctuary from modern life.

[12] From the first, deeply textured, strokes of her early works, to the gentle swoops of colour and line in her later landscapes, Morris exhibited a unique style that set her apart from her contemporaries.

Throughout her life, she spent two months of every summer in Marshall's Bay near Arnprior, Ontario, at a small secluded cottage that had been in the family for over a hundred years.

[c] However, since exhibitors preferred her town rather than her country scenes, most of her time was spent developing her winter sketches into larger canvases.

They, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, are running a campaign to abolish the Leg Hold Trap in Fredericton, N.B., and I am very interested in that as I think it is the worst thing of all.

Think of having your finger caught in a car door for a week or longer and no food or water and to be killed by another animal or a brutal trapper.

In these days when they can do such wonderful things they surely could make very nice artificial furs but of course the furriers will fight it tooth and nail.

[16] Canadian writer Albert Laberge called it extremely interesting and in 1924 and 1927 her name made it into the headlines of the reviews of the annual Art Association of Montreal spring exhibition.

[17][18] In 1928 one of her paintings of a Quebec fish market was reproduced in the Toronto Telegram newspaper under the title Canadian Art Reaches Peak at R.C.A.

It is humane, it is technically authoritative, it is the personal expression of the joy of life and of tangible emotion by a gifted, forthright, fearless artist.