The “truth” eluded Canadians for nearly a century, right back to July 16, 1917, when the missing painter's body surfaced on Algonquin Park's most famous lake – a bruise over his left temple, one ankle wrapped round and round with fishing line.That suspicious death – accident? murder? suicide? – and the subsequent question as to whether his body remained at Canoe Lake, where his friends had buried him, or had later been exhumed at the Thomson family's request and taken to Leith, Ont., has made Tom Thomson Canada's greatest enduring mystery, his famous works inextricably tied to his fate.
This Globe and Mail article and accompanying slideshow reveal new facts surrounding the mysterious death of Group of Seven artist, Tom Thompson.
Wow, the Globe article saves the bit for the very end... kind of convoluted, but interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe question is, who shot him?
It wasn't me, honest!
ReplyDeletejust a slight correction...Thompson was not a member of the Group of Seven. He was a friend and colleague of several of them.
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