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b'Episode 244: On the morning of the 8th of July 1917, thirty-nine-year-old Tom Thomson, a renowned Canadian painter and skilled outdoorsman, set off well-supplied for a day-long fishing excursion in his canoe on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in Whitney, Ontario. A canoe, later identified as Thomson\\u2019s, was found floating upside down in the lake later on the same day. When Tom did not return from his fishing trip the next day, his friends became concerned. Eight days after Thomson first set out, Dr. G. W. (Goldwyn) Howland, a cottager from Toronto, spotted Tom\\u2019s bloated and decomposed body floating in the lake. An examination of Thomson\\u2019s body uncovered a large bruise on the right side of his head, and blood had come out of his right ear. Thomson\\u2019s death was quickly ruled an accident, and no police investigation occurred. Thomson was laid to rest in Mowat Cemetery near Canoe Lake, where he\\u2019d died. However, Thomson\\u2019s older brother George demanded the body be exhumed. Two days later, Tom\\u2019s grave was re-opened, the casket removed, and he was re-interred on July 21 in the family plot beside the Leith Presbyterian Church in what is now the Municipality of Meaford, Ontario.\\nOfficially the matter was closed, but mythology has grown around Thomson\\u2019s death. In the intervening years since Thomson\\u2019s death, investigations by sleuths, amateur and professional, have come to various conflicting conclusions. Some agree with the initial findings that Thomson died due to accidental drowning. Others, however, suggest that Tom Thomson was murdered.\\nSources:\\nDeath on a Painted Lake: The Tom Thomson Tragedy\\nAlgonquin Provincial Park | Ontario, Canada | The Friends of Algonquin Park\\nTom Thomson | The Canadian Encyclopedia\\nThe Group of Seven \\u2013 Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933\\nCanada\\u2019s History Books - Canada\\u2019s History\\nThe Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, Canadian Painter \\u2013 alexanderadamsart\\nTom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm by David Silcox, Harold Town - Ebook | Scribd\\nTom Thomson by Joan Murray - Ebook | Scribd\\nWho Killed Tom Thomson? by John Little - Ebook | Scribd\\nThe Many Deaths of Tom Thomson by Gregory Klages - Ebook | Scribd\\nThe Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson by George A. Walker - Ebook | Scribd\\nTom Thomson\\u2019s Last Paddle by Larry McCloskey - Ebook | Scribd\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'