The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

Separating Fact from Fiction

by Gregory Klages

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Pub Date Jun 07 2016 | Archive Date Apr 29 2016

Dundurn | Dundurn Press

Biographies & Memoirs | History

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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.

A Note From the Publisher

Gregory Klages is the research director for Death on a Painted Lake: The Tom Thomson Tragedy, one of twelve archival websites produced by the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History project. He is uniquely situated to address Thomson’s death and how it has been investigated over the last century. He lives in Toronto.

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