Death on a Painted Lake: Algonquin Provincial Park
In July of 1917 a pioneering landscape painter paddled out onto Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park and never returned. His death was initially ruled an accident, but in the following decades peculiar “evidence” and claims from the locals raised a lot of questions. Theories began to arise that maybe it wasn’t an accident after all. Tom Thomson’s death may have happened nearly 100 years ago, but it remains one of Canada’s most enduring mysteries.
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SourcesThe Many Deaths of Tom Thomson by Gregory Klages https://www.kobo.com/be/nl/ebook/the-many-deaths-of-tom-thomson
Inventing Tom Thomson by Sherril Grace
https://www.mqup.ca/Books/I/Inventing-Tom-Thomson2
Death on a Painted Lake website
https://canadianmysteries.ca/sites/thomson/home/indexen.html
CBC Ideas Podcast: The mysterious death of a great Canadian painter
CBC Ideas Podcast - Behind the eyes and in the land: What Tom Thomson saw, and what he may have missed https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16155954-behind-eyes-land-what-tom-thomson-saw-may
