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PHOTO PERMISSIONS
1. Tom Thomson’s parents John and Margaret (Mathewson) Thomson. Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1943-082, C-027122.
2. The Thomson brothers, Tom, Ralph, George, Henry, with Tom Harkness. Photograph reprinted with permission of the Thomson family.
3. Photo of Tom Thomson around the age of fifteen. Gibson, Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1981-254, PA-211294.
4. Member of the Group of Seven – Tom Thomson. Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1976-036, PA-121719.
5. Jimmy and Wam Stringer. (Photograph courtesy of Jack Hurley.)
6. Chief Ranger Tom McCormick. (Photo courtesy of Jim MacGregor.)
7. “Miss Winnifred Trainor, II” – “Winnifred Trainor” in a plaid dress, standing and facing the viewer. Tom Thomson, Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1995-133, PA-193567.
8. Winnie Trainor and Irene Ewing. (Source unknown.)
9. Winnie Trainor at Academy. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Muskoka Heritage Place Collection, Huntsville, Ontario.)
10. Winnie Trainor. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Muskoka Heritage Place Collection, Huntsville, Ontario.)
11. Tom Thomson, 1877-1917, Figure of a Lady, Laura, c.1915, McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
12. Winnie, portrait by Victoria Lywood, black-and-white. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Victoria Lywood.)
13. Tom Thomson, 1877-1917, The Jack Pine, 1916-1917, oil on canvas, 127.9 × 139.8 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, photo © NGC.
14. Portrait of Dr. J.M. MacCallum (“A Cynic”), 1917, oil on canvas, 67.5× 54.9 cm, Bequest of Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto, 1944, National Gallery of Canada (no. 4734).
15. Guide George Rowe on far right. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Algonquin Park Archives.)
16. Tom Thomson, a member of the Group of Seven. Blair Laing, Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1976-036, PA-125406.
17. Winnie Trainor’s cottage. (Author photograph.)
18. Tom Thomson Shaving. Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1943-078, C-007900.
19. Tom Thomson (painter and associate of the Group of Seven) engaged in an outdoor activity—paddling canoe. Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1991-002, PA-212472.
20. Tom Thomson [standing on a rock]. Library and Archives Canada, accession number 1991-002, PA-187135.
21. Tom Thomson and Arthur Lismer, Smoke Lake. McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
22. Ranger Mark Robinson and his son Jack. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Robinson-Addison family.)
23. Shannon and Annie (sitting) Fraser, with unidentified woman, Smoke Lake. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Algonquin Park Archives.)
24. Daphne Crombie and Robin Crombie in sled driven by Shannon Fraser. (Photograph used with permission of Robinson-Addison family.)
25. Shannon Fraser. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Algonquin Park Archives.)
26. Algonquin Park Superintendent George Bartlett. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Algonquin Park Archives.)
27. Dr. Noble Sharpe, (Photograph reprinted with permission of Boris Spremo/Getstock.com.)
28. Kelso Roberts, Attorney General of Ontario 1956. (Photograph reprinted with permission of the Globe and Mail.)
29. Blecher cottage table. (Author photograph.)
30. Tom Thomson, Canadian, 1877-1917, The West Wind, c.1916/1917, oil on canvas, 120.7×137.9 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of the Canadian Club of Toronto, 1926.
31. The four gravediggers (Photograph reprinted with permission of Algonquin Park Archives.)
32. Dr. Wilfred T. Pocock. (Photograph reprinted with permission of Algonquin Park Archives.)
33. Dr. Harry Ebbs. (Photograph reprinted with permission of the Statten family.)
34. Tom Thomson Memorial Cairn, Canoe Lake. (Author photograph.)
35. Tom Thomson’s grave. (Author photograph.)
36. Tom Thomson’s skull. (Photograph reprinted with permission of the Statten family.)
37. Tom Thomson’s skull, 1956, Ontario Centre for Forensic Science. (Photograph reprinted courtesy of Chief Coroner’s Office of Ontario.)
38. Face overlayed on skull, Victoria Lywood. (Portrait reprinted with permission of Victoria Lywood. Original photo reprinted courtesy of Chief Coroner’s Office of Ontario.)
39. Forensic artist Victoria Lywood’s interpretation of face belonging to discovered skull. (Portrait reprinted with permission of Victoria Lywood. Thomson close ups credited elsewhere.)
ROY MACGREGOR is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey (shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award); A Life in the Bush (winner of the U.S. Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book and the CAA Award for Biography); and Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People, as well as two novels, Canoe Lake and The Last Season, and the popular Screech Owls mystery series for young readers. A regular columnist at the Globe and
Mail since 2002, MacGregor has received four National Magazine Awards and eight National Newspaper Award nominations for his journalism. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and was described in the citation as one of Canada’s most gifted storytellers. He grew up in Huntsville, Ontario, and has kept returning to the Tom Thomson mystery all his writing life. He lives in Kanata, Ontario.
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