Lorne Kidd Smith

He studied art in Boston in his early 20s and worked for the Forbes Lithographing Company.

He designed a poster for the First World War-era Victory Loan campaign, for which he won a prize.

[1] Smith's best-known paintings are "The Meeting of Brock and Tecumseh" and "Laura Secord Warning Colonel Fitzgibbon, June 1813", both of which are now in the collection of Library and Archives Canada.

They were likely commissioned by Dr. Arthur Doughty, the Dominion archivist, in the early 20th century.

[2] "Laura Secord Warning Colonel Fitzgibbon, June 1813" depicts the legend of Laura Secord warning the British army of impending American attack; it was probably painted around 1920.