Alan Caswell Collier, Relief StiffAlan Caswell Collier was one of Canadas most admired and successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he worked alongside other single, unemployed men in government run relief camps. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to his fiance and depicted fellow relief stiffs and the BC landscape in character sketches and paintings. Incisive and candid, his letters reveal a born contrarian with a strong