[2][3] It met about once a week to produce drawings from life and its operative mottos were the disciplinary "Nulla Dies Sine Linea" and "Non Clamor Sed Amor".
The League founders were John David Kelly, William Walker Alexander, Charles Macdonald Manly and Alfred H. Howard.
[5] Members contributed to the League Calendars (1893-1904)[8][9] which covered virtually all phases of Canadian life in its illustrations and are today considered a milestone in the history of graphic art in Canada.
[13] Sketching trips were taken by League members as far away as the Niagara Peninsula, Muskoka, Quebec City, and the Richelieu River Valley.
MacDonald at the Central Ontario Art School (later the Ontario College of Art and Design), and in their work and that of others... as an influence on the students who succeeded us", said Jefferys who credits the League with being the origin of the Canadian Landscape School and thus, ultimately of the Group of Seven.