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The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

Gregory Klages
The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : Gregory Klages
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459731981

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The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson by Gregory Klages Pdf

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.

Who Killed Tom Thomson?

John Little
Who Killed Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : John Little
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781510733411

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Who Killed Tom Thomson? by John Little Pdf

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.

The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson

George A. Walker
The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : George A. Walker
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780889843486

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The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson by George A. Walker Pdf

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.

Northern Light

Roy MacGregor
Northern Light Book PDF

Author : Roy MacGregor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307357403

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Northern Light by Roy MacGregor Pdf

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.

Death in the Peaceable Kingdom

Dimitry Anastakis
Death in the Peaceable Kingdom Book PDF

Author : Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442606364

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Death in the Peaceable Kingdom by Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Death in the Peaceable Kingdom is an intelligent, innovative response to the incorrect assumption that Canadian history is dry and uninspiring. Using the "hooks" of murder, execution, assassination, and suicide, Dimitry Anastakis introduces readers to the full scope of post-Confederation Canadian history. Beginning with the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Anastakis recounts the deaths of famous Canadians such as Louis Riel, Tom Thomson, and Pierre Laporte. He also introduces lesser-known events such as the execution of shell-shocked deserter Pte. Harold Carter during the First World War and the suicide of suspected communist Herbert Norman in Cairo during the Cold War. The book concludes with recent Canadian deaths including the suicides of Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons as a result of cyberbullying. Complementing the chapters are short vignettes--"Murderous Moments" and "Tragic Tales"--that point to broader themes and issues. The book also contains a number of "Active History" exercises such as activities, assignments, and primary document analyses. A timeline, 24 images, and further reading suggestions are included.

The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

Gregory Klages
The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : Gregory Klages
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459731974

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The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson by Gregory Klages Pdf

Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of Tom Thomson's death, cultural historian Gregory Klages offers the deepest look to date at the historical record, testimony, and archives about the artist’s tragic and mysterious demise. Putting the whole range of theories under examination, he separates truth from legend in this great Canadian mystery.

The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List

Robin Esrock
The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List Book PDF

Author : Robin Esrock
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781459730502

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The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List by Robin Esrock Pdf

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

Jim Poling Sr.
Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : Jim Poling Sr.
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459504950

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Tom Thomson by Jim Poling Sr. Pdf

"An overturned canoe. A body recovered. Presumably Thomson drowned. That should have been the end of it. It was only the beginning." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: biography, history, the visual arts or true-life mysteries. Tom Thomson is perhaps Canada's most famous artist. His short and glorious career was abruptly and brutally ended on July 8, 1917. Since the recovery of Thomson's body, theories as to the cause of his death -- accident? murder? -- have preoccupied sleuths for close to 100 years.

Tom Thomson

David Silcox,Harold Town
Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : David Silcox,Harold Town
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443442350

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Tom Thomson by David Silcox,Harold Town Pdf

A stunning new edition of the Canadian classic with never-before-seen paintings First published in 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of a Canadian painter whose brief, brilliant life, and untimely death in a mysterious canoe accident, gained him mythic status in his homeland, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm quickly attained legendary status in its own right. This newly designed and expanded edition revives a classic and adds more than 25 never-before-seen paintings and a new introduction. Co-authors Harold Town, a founder of the Painters Eleven and an icon of Canadian art himself, and art historian David P. Silcox, former head of Sotheby's Canadian division, celebrate this early associate of the Group of Seven as a key creative figure without falling into the trap of cultural jingoism. Thomson, the authors maintain, was an inspired regional painter—in the best sense of that term—who stumbled upon the bold Expressionist palette pioneered by Matisse and his contemporaries despite working from a provincial backwater. Thomson's finest works are reproduced here in painstakingly colour-matched plates, including more than 80 of Thomson's famous oil sketches in exactly their original size.

Tom Thomson

Wayne Larsen
Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : Wayne Larsen
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554888498

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Tom Thomson by Wayne Larsen Pdf

Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada’s national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and woodsman’s innovative painting style produced such seminal Canadian images as The Jack Pine and The West Wind, while his untimely drowning nearly a century ago is still a popular subject of fierce debate. Originally a commercial artist, Thomson fell in love with the forests and lakes of Ontario’s Algonquin Park and devoted himself to rendering the north country’s changing seasons in a series of colourful sketches and canvases. Dividing his time between his beloved wilderness and a shack behind the Studio Building near downtown Toronto, Thomson was a major inspiration to his painter friends who, not long after his death, went on to change the course of Canadian art as the influential - and equally controversial - Group of Seven.

Defiant Spirits

Ross King
Defiant Spirits Book PDF

Author : Ross King
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1553658078

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Defiant Spirits by Ross King Pdf

Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English critic celebrated in the 1920s as the “most vital group of paintings” of the 20th century. Inspired by Cézanne, Van Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris called “an all-engrossing adventure”: travelling north into the anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what they regarded as the unique features of Canada’s northern landscape. Rigorously researched and drawn from archival documents and letters, Defiant Spirits constitutes a “group biography,” reconstructing the men’s aspirations, frustrations and achievements. It details not only the lives of Tom Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political and social history of Canada

Serpentine

Thomas Thompson
Serpentine Book PDF

Author : Thomas Thompson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504043274

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Serpentine by Thomas Thompson Pdf

New York Times Bestseller: This in-depth account of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer portrayed in Netflix miniseries The Serpent, is “compulsive reading” (The Plain Dealer). There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for same man: Charles Sobhraj, aka “The Serpent.” A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the “hippie trail” between Europe and South Asia. A master of deception, he used his powerful intellect and considerable sex appeal to lure naïve travelers into a life of crime. When they threatened to turn on him, Sobhraj murdered his acolytes in cold blood. Between late 1975 and early 1976, a dozen corpses were found everywhere from the boulevards of Paris to the slopes of the Himalayas to the back alleys of Bangkok and Hong Kong. Some police experts believe the true number of Sobhraj’s victims may be more than twice that amount. Serpentine is the “grotesque, baffling, and hypnotic” true story of one of the most bizarre killing sprees in modern history (San Francisco Chronicle). Edgar Award–winning author Thomas Thompson’s mesmerizing portrait of a notorious sociopath and his helpless prey “unravels like fiction, but afterwards haunts the reader like the document it is” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland).

The Legend Of Barney Thomson

Douglas Lindsay
The Legend Of Barney Thomson Book PDF

Author : Douglas Lindsay
Publisher : Blasted Heath Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908688064

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The Legend Of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay Pdf

"Great fun and daft as monkeys" — Stuart MacBride, #1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEADBarney Thomson — awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber — lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty-year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next. However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomson's uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer...Praise for Douglas Lindsay"The plot, Russian literature fans, is a modern spin on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. The bloody ending, movie buffs, is pure Reservoir Dogs." - The Mirror"This is pitch-black comedy spun from the finest writing. Fantastic plot, unforgettable scenes and plenty of twisted belly laughs." - New Woman"This chilling black comedy unfolds at dizzying speed...an impressive debut novel." - Sunday Mirror"Gleefully macabre, hugely enjoyable black burlesque." - The ScotsmanThe Barney Thomson novels in order#1 THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON (first published as THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON)#2 THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT#3 MURDERERS ANONYMOUS#4 THE RESURRECTION OF BARNEY THOMSON#5 THE LAST FISH SUPPER#6 THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON#7 THE FINAL CUTThese seven novels can be bought together as a set. Search for THE BARBERSHOP SEVEN.

The World Looks Different Now

Margaret Thomson
The World Looks Different Now Book PDF

Author : Margaret Thomson
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631526947

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The World Looks Different Now by Margaret Thomson Pdf

On a glorious, if blisteringly hot, Saturday in August 2010, Margaret Thomson’s world is suddenly shattered by the incomprehensible news that her twenty-two-year-old son, a medic in the army, has taken his life. In a deep state of shock, Thomson and her husband immediately travel to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where their son Kieran was stationed, in an effort to assist their daughter-in-law. Upon their arrival, though, the couple find themselves plunged into a labyrinthine and, at times, seemingly bizarre world of military rules and regulations. Eventually, after the funeral and the memorial services are over, an even more challenging journey—emotionally as well as geographically—ensues, especially for Margaret, who, as a former journalist, is determined to find out more about the circumstances surrounding her son’s death, no matter how high the cost. As she enters her second year of grieving, Thomson receives an unexpected invitation from an unlikely source—the army, which she’s often blamed in many ways, whether fairly or not, for her son’s death. Seizing upon this opportunity, Thomson finds that her perspective is changed—literally—and that as a result the world does indeed look different now.

Tom Thomson

Tim Bouma
Tom Thomson Book PDF

Author : Tim Bouma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177257175X

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Tom Thomson by Tim Bouma Pdf

A fictional journal covering the last few months of painter Tom Thomson's life. Includes a few letters written by Thomson.