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The Canadian painter Tom Thomson died on 8 July 1917, on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. After Thomson drowned in the water, his upturned canoe was discovered later that afternoon and his body eight days later.
Jul 7, 2017 · On July 8, 1917, Tom Thomson disappeared into Algonquin Park's Canoe Lake. His overturned canoe was found containing a gallon of maple syrup, some jam and a rubber sheet, but the...
Jun 2, 2022 · Northern light. But is Thomson really resting in Owen Sound? Did the wilderness painter accidentally fall from his canoe and drown in 1917? “Not at all,” says award-winning journalist Roy...
Mar 14, 2011 · His remains were supposedly exhumed and reburied at Leith, Ontario, shortly after his death, but new evidence suggests that they remain where they were first buried – at Canoe Lake. The mystery hangs on a skeleton found at the lake in 1956.
In 2004, another historical marker honouring Thomson was moved from its previous location near the centre of Leith to the graveyard in which he is now buried. The gravesite has become a popular spot for visitors to the area with many fans of his work leaving pennies or art supplies behind as tribute.
The death of Tom Thomson in the summer of 1917 has contributed to the mythic status of the painter as a rugged wilderness man, a sensitive genius whose life was cut short by cruel fate. For some, however, Thomson's death has also become the focal point of an unresolved and complex set of mysteries.
1 day ago · Thomson was initially buried in a small cemetery up the hill from Mowat Lodge, overlooking Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. But at the request of his family, the body was reinterred in the family plot beside Leith United Church.
