One of Ontario's outstanding artists and teachers, Haines was born in Meaford. In 1896 he moved to Toronto where he attended the Central Ontario School of Art. He later studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. Working in the realistic style as painter, etcher, and printmaker, he tended to specialize in idealized Ontario pastoral landscapes. In 1928 he was appointed a curator at the Art Gallery of Toronto (Art Gallery of Ontario). As Principal of the Ontario College of Art, 1933-1953, he introduced a separate workshop for advanced students and an open studio where students could watch Haines resolve his own artistic problems in painting.

I just found a photo of him in my grandmother's box of old photos. The man on the left looks like Fred Haines, the man in the middle I'm told is my great-grandfather Bertram and the man on the right is still unidentified.