The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson
Title | The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson PDF eBook |
Author | George A. Walker |
Publisher | The Porcupine's Quill |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1123408556 |
In master engraver George A. Walker’s newest work, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of the iconic Canadian artist are explored through some one hundred and nine wood engravings, creating a work that eulogizes not only the artist himself, but the struggle of the artist’s attempt to express himself while constrained by society, the reality of the moment, and mortality.
The Real Mystery of Tom Thomson
Title | The Real Mystery of Tom Thomson PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Weiser |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781896124742 |
Although much has been written about Tom Thomson's mysterious death, little to nothing has been written about his life's accomplishment: how in less than four years, a man with little experience and no art school education was able to create hundreds of paintings that have captured the nation's imagination for almost a century. This is the real Tom Thomson mystery, and it is a story worth telling.
Who Killed Tom Thomson?
Title | Who Killed Tom Thomson? PDF eBook |
Author | John Little |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 462 |
Release | 2018-08-21 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1510733418 |
Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, Thomson's family hired an undertaker to exhume the body and move it to the family plot about 100 miles away. This undertaker refused all help, and only worked at night. In 1956, John Little's father and three other men, influenced by the story of an old park ranger who never believed Thomson's body was moved by the undertaker, dug up what was supposed to be the original, empty grave. To their surprise, the grave still contained a body, and the skull revealed a head wound that matched the same location noted by the men who pulled his corpse from the water in 1917. The finding sent shockwaves across the nation and began a mystery that continues to this day. In Who Killed Tom Thomson? John Little continues the sixty-year relationship his family has had with Tom Thomson and his fate by teaming up with two high-ranking Ontario provincial police homicide detectives. For the first time, they provide a forensic scientific opinion as to how Thomson met his death, and where his body is buried. Little draws upon his father's research, plus recently released archival material, as well as his own thirty-year investigation. He and his colleagues prove that Thomson was murdered, and set forth two persons of interest who may have killed Tom Thomson.
Northern Light
Title | Northern Light PDF eBook |
Author | Roy MacGregor |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 2011-09-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307357406 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION Roy MacGregor's lifelong fascination with Tom Thomson first led him to write Canoe Lake, a novel inspired by a distant relative's affair with one of Canada's greatest painters. Now, MacGregor breaks new ground, re-examining the mysteries of Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does a man who died almost a century ago and painted relatively little still have such a grip on our imagination? The eccentric spinster Winnie Trainor was a fixture of Roy MacGregor's childhood in Huntsville, Ontario. She was considered too odd to be a truly romantic figure in the eyes of the town, but the locals knew that Canada's most famous painter had once been in love with her, and that she had never gotten over his untimely death. She kept some paintings he gave her in a six-quart basket she'd leave with the neighbours on her rare trips out of town, and in the summers she'd make the trip from her family cottage, where Thomson used to stay, on foot to the graveyard up the hill, where fans of the artist occasionally left bouquets. There she would clear away the flowers. After all, as far as anyone knew, he wasn't there: she had arranged at his family's request for him to be exhumed and moved to a cemetery near Owen Sound. As Roy MacGregor's richly detailed Northern Light reveals, not much is as it seems when it comes to Tom Thomson, the most iconic of Canadian painters. Philandering deadbeat or visionary artist and gentleman, victim of accidental drowning or deliberate murder, the man's myth has grown to obscure the real view—and the answers to the mysteries are finally revealed in these pages.
The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List
Title | The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Esrock |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Total Pages | 153 |
Release | 2016-02-06 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 145973050X |
Renowned travel writer and TV host Robin Esrock has explored every inch of Canada’s Prairies to craft the definitive Bucket List. From food and culture to nature and adrenaline rushes, Robin has the inspiration and information you’ll need to follow in his footsteps and discover everything Manitoba and Saskatchewan have to offer.
Tom Thomson's Last Paddle
Title | Tom Thomson's Last Paddle PDF eBook |
Author | Larry McCloskey |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2002-07-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780888784308 |
Two preteens, Dani and Caitlin, set out to uncover the truth behind the mysterious death of Canadian painter Tom Thomson, while on a camping trip with their fathers in the Ontario wilderness.
The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson
Title | The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Klages |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2016-05-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1459731980 |
A National Post Bestseller! How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight? Did he end his life out of fear of being forced to marry his pregnant girlfriend? Commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter, The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson offers an authoritative review of the historical record, as well as some theories you might not have thought of in a hundred years. Cultural historian Gregory Klages surveys first-hand testimony and archival records about Thomson’s tragic demise, attempting to sort fact from legend in the death of this Canadian icon.