1882-1903: David Brown Milne born January 8, 1882 on a farm near Paisley, Bruce Country, Ontario. Finished high school and c. 1900 taught school in the Paisley area.

1903: Went to New York City to study art. Attended classes at the Art Student's League of New York. Earned a living doing showcards, display windows and some commercial illustrations. Began painting and occasional exhibiting, but sold little.

1906: Met Mary (Patsy) Hegarty. They courted for six years and were married in 1912.

1913: International Exhibition of Modern Art, New York City, known as the Armoury Show. Milne had five paintings in the show. About this time Milne met another artist named James Clarke. Clarke became a famous American illustrator and a life long friend and supporter of Milne. Exhibits at Montross Gallery, N.Y.C. Work reproduced in New York Times.

1914: World War I began.

1916: Ill health and financial worries forced Milne to leave New York City. Settled in Boston Corners, New York, in the lower Berkshires.

1918: Milne enlisted in the Canadian Army as a private. Trained in Toronto and shipped to England. Never saw action, but appointed a Canadian War Artist and painted the aftermath of war in France and Belgium.

1919-21: Returned to Boston Corners, N.Y.

1920-21: Milne built a hut on nearby Alander Mountain. Spent a solitary winter painting and writing.

1921: Spent summer at Dart's Lake, N.Y. Exhibition of the Dart's Lake water colours was held at Cornell University in 1922.

1921-23: Two winters spent at Mt. Riga, N.Y. Milne began experimenting with colour, dry-point etching, using a wringer washing machine as a press.

1923-24: Spent one winter in Ottawa, Canada. Has large one-man show in Montreal.

1924-25: Milne paintings included in British Empire Exhibitions at Wembley, England.

1922-28: Spent summers at Big Moose Lake, N.Y., and winters at Lake Placid, N.Y. Clarke obtained commission for Milne to produce 3,000 dry-points for Colophon.

1928-29: Returned to Canada. Lived at Temagami and Weston, Ontario.

1929-33: Lived at Palgrave, Ontario.

1933: Legally separated from Patsy.

1933-39: Lived in tar-paper shack at Six Mile Lake, Ontario.

1934: Wrote to Vincent Massey, offering to sell paintings. Massey bought paintings and arranged exhibitions at Mellors Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

1935: Met Douglas Duncan.

1938: Duncan became Milne's agent. Milne's work exhibited at Duncan's Picture Laon Society in Toronto from 1938-53.

1938: Met his second wife, Kathleen Pavey, at Six Mile Lake.

1939-40: Moved to Toronto.

1940-52: Lived in Uxbridge, Ontario. Painted Uxbridge, Coboconk, and Haliburton regions.

1941: Milne's only child, David Milne Jr., is born when Milne is 59 years old.

1948: Began building cabin on Baptiste Lake, near Bancroft, Ontario.

1952-53: Moved to Bancroft. Suffered first stroke, incapacitating him in November 1952. Major stroke, September 1953. Died December 26, 1953.