David Milne was born in Bruce County, Ontario and in 1903 he moved to New York to study at the Art Students League and worked as a commercial artist to support himself. Five of Milne’s pieces were chosen to be shown in the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armoury, in New York City along with artists like Matisse, Picasso and Van Gogh. After WWI he moved back to Boston and then Port Severn Ontario. He sold many works there before settling Uxbridge, Ontario.