Robinson and Jackson maintained from their 1911 trip together to France a lifelong friendship during which, among other places, they visited numerous villages along the St. Lawrence, including Cacouna in 1921 and Bienville in 1922, where Robinson painted Quebec, View from Bienville, and the preparatory sketch Bienville, Québecr.

About his first sketching trip to Bienville with his friend Robinson, Jackson wrote,

Robinson and I went to Bienville, a small village on the south shore. In March when the snow was melting, when the roads were covered with slush and the ice was going up and down the river with the tides, it was a fascinating place to paint…One of our favourite sketching locations was on the Canadian National tracks beside the river, where we could look across to Quebec with the ice drifting up and down in the foreground (Jackson 57-58).

* Jackson, Alexander Young. “Sketching in Algoma.” Canadian Forum, March 1921.