Biography/Art/Mystery/History/Romance
Trade Paperback
Price: $19.95 (US) $20.42 (CND)
Size: 6 x 9
Author: Neil J. Lehto
ISBN: 0-595-36132-3
252 Pages
Trade Paperback
Price: $19.95 (US) $20.42 (CND)
Size: 6 x 9
Author: Neil J. Lehto
ISBN: 0-595-36132-3
252 Pages
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This book tells the true story of one of Canada's greatest artists, Tom
Thomson, who painted sixty-two landscapes on small wood panels during
the last spring of his life -- a daily record of the season's change from winter
to spring in Ontario's magnificent Algonquin Provincial Park in 1917. It is
the bestselling biography of Tom Thomson available today in Canada.
All of these panels and all of his personal property were missing upon
his drowning in the park's Canoe Lake on July 8, 1917. Thomson's body
was not recovered until eight days later. It was hastily examined by a
vacationing physician and buried the next day but also hastily exhumed a
day later and his sealed-steel casket reburied on July 21, 1917, in the
family plot in Leith, Ontario. In 1956, his grave site at Canoe Lake was dug
up and a skeleton found. Medical investigation found that the body was not
that of Tom Thomson but a native Indian.
Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson's Last Spring tells the story of an
investigation into Tom Thomson's last spring. The non-fictional parts of this
novel are the most thorough ever investigated, documented and reported
about the drowning of Tom Thomson, an icon of Canadian culture -- whose
painting hang in the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario,
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
and elsewhere and also appear everywhere across the country on stamps,
posters and calendars. Schoolchildren across Canada are routinely offered
his works as the high point of Canadian art, an historic anchor that has
tied Canada to its sense of northernness.
The book appeals to anyone interested in love and art, life and death,
mystery, romance, history, Algonquin Park, whitewater rivers or canoeing.
One reviewer says that while Tom Thomson captured Algonquin Park in
his painting, Neil J. Lehto does so in his writing. High praise, indeed!
Thomson, who painted sixty-two landscapes on small wood panels during
the last spring of his life -- a daily record of the season's change from winter
to spring in Ontario's magnificent Algonquin Provincial Park in 1917. It is
the bestselling biography of Tom Thomson available today in Canada.
All of these panels and all of his personal property were missing upon
his drowning in the park's Canoe Lake on July 8, 1917. Thomson's body
was not recovered until eight days later. It was hastily examined by a
vacationing physician and buried the next day but also hastily exhumed a
day later and his sealed-steel casket reburied on July 21, 1917, in the
family plot in Leith, Ontario. In 1956, his grave site at Canoe Lake was dug
up and a skeleton found. Medical investigation found that the body was not
that of Tom Thomson but a native Indian.
Algonquin Elegy: Tom Thomson's Last Spring tells the story of an
investigation into Tom Thomson's last spring. The non-fictional parts of this
novel are the most thorough ever investigated, documented and reported
about the drowning of Tom Thomson, an icon of Canadian culture -- whose
painting hang in the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario,
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
and elsewhere and also appear everywhere across the country on stamps,
posters and calendars. Schoolchildren across Canada are routinely offered
his works as the high point of Canadian art, an historic anchor that has
tied Canada to its sense of northernness.
The book appeals to anyone interested in love and art, life and death,
mystery, romance, history, Algonquin Park, whitewater rivers or canoeing.
One reviewer says that while Tom Thomson captured Algonquin Park in
his painting, Neil J. Lehto does so in his writing. High praise, indeed!
Now selling at The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Algonquin Park Visitor Centre
and the Algonquin Art Centre in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ginger Press and Downtown
Bookstore in Owen Sound, Ontario, The Blue Canoe in South River, Ontario, the
Madawaska Kanu Centre in Barry's Bay, Ontario, and the Finnish Cultural Center on Eight
Mile Road in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Order Algonquin Elegy book at most bookstores.
Preview Algonquin Elegy at Google Books and Search Inside at Amazon.
Available for purchase at all online booksellers worldwide.
Also, please note that Amazon.ca shipping does NOT take 4-6 weeks. Canadian readers
will get the book shipped to them in 7 to 10 days.
and the Algonquin Art Centre in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ginger Press and Downtown
Bookstore in Owen Sound, Ontario, The Blue Canoe in South River, Ontario, the
Madawaska Kanu Centre in Barry's Bay, Ontario, and the Finnish Cultural Center on Eight
Mile Road in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Order Algonquin Elegy book at most bookstores.
Preview Algonquin Elegy at Google Books and Search Inside at Amazon.
Available for purchase at all online booksellers worldwide.
Also, please note that Amazon.ca shipping does NOT take 4-6 weeks. Canadian readers
will get the book shipped to them in 7 to 10 days.
Algonquin Elegy: Tom
Thomson's Last Spring
Thomson's Last Spring
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owned by others. Please respect the rights of all writers, artists and creators. Content such as text, music,
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