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Northern Light: The Enduring Mystery Of Tom Thomson And The Woman Who Loved Him (2010)

by Roy MacGregor(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307357392 (ISBN13: 9780307357397)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Random House Canada

review 1: I learned a lot from this book. Having grown up in this little town, and walking those very streets, having paddled this lake hundreds of times with my father and hearing this story, yet never really knowing the connection Tom Thomson had with my town. This book had me with the first few chapters! The deceptions of the area are so vivid that you can't but be swept away to Algonquin at a time when the park was just beginning.
review 2: Growing up in Huntsville, Ontario in the 50's and 60's, Roy MacGregor was privy to all the local gossip concerning the death of the iconic Canadian painter, Tom Thomson in 1917 at nearby Canoe lake. After the mystery of the circumstances of Thomson's death continued to nag him for four decades, MacGregor gathered his notes and mem... moreories to come to some sort of personal conclusion about how Thomson actually perished. The strength of this book is not in the mystery which is actually quite banal and somewhat sordid, but in Roy MacGregor's personal connections to and nostalgia for both the time and place that held the "mystery" for many decades, and why it remained a secret. Through relatives, friends, and personal recollections, MacGregor paints a vivid picture of rural Ontario and the people who lived there in the first half of the 2Oth century. It would have been wonderful if he could have found the "real" Tom Thomson, but perhaps he only exists in his magnificent legacy of canvasses. less

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