Alan Caswell Collier, Relief StiffAlan Caswell Collier was one of Canadas most successful landscape painters, but during the Depression he joined the thousands of single, unemployed men who rode the rails or hitchhiked across North America in search of jobs. He eventually made his way to British Columbias remote government run relief camps, the birthplace of the famous Communist led On to Ottawa Trek. Labouring for twenty cents a day, he detailed camp life and politics in letters to