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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.
- Delves into the unsolved mystery of how Thomson died, while explaining the colourful history of the subject's investigation
- Presents groundbreaking assessments from Ontario's Chief Forensic Pathologist
- Takes on popular conspiracy theories, with new insights on Thomson's death, on the one hundredth anniversary of his demise, grounded in hard evidence
- Challenges the deep flaws in the last major book published on Thomson's death, Northern Light, which was a national bestseller
- Author was Research Director for Death on a Painted Lake: The Tom Thomson Tragedy, a part of the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project, which won the Canadian History Society's Pierre Berton Award
