Claremont Enquirer
TOM THOMSON & SIBLINGS
Left to Right: Henry, Tom (age 10), Elizabeth, Minnie, George, Ralph, Louisa
Front row in white : Fraser, Margaret (Peg) (James, died at 9 months in 1882)
Tom Thomson's parents: John and Margaret (Mathewson) Thomson
moved their family from where Tom was born in Claremont, Ontario located northeast of Toronto, to a large farm near Georgian Bay in Leith Ontario located east of Owen Sound in 1877, just 3 months after Tom’s birth. In 1902, John and Margaret moved into Owen Sound, where they were living at the time of Tom's death.
Tom at the Grip, 1903
Tom 1893
When a child, Tom was delicate and had several attacks of congestion and inflammation of the lungs. Finally the Dr. told Mother to keep him out of school for a year and let him roam the woods with a shotgun, which he did, wearing an old felt hat which he soaked with water and shaped to a point over a broom handle, decorated with squirrel tails and wild flowers. In this way he became an expert with the shotgun and rifle, to his own delight and Mother’s despair.
Tom, Ralph, George and Henry Thomson with Tom Harkness
George Thomson,
Eldest brother of Tom's
5 Thomson Brothers, (left) Henry, Tom, George, Ralph, Fraser
Tom was a graphic artist at Grip Limited, a commercial design firm in Toronto
Tom 1899
Tom's most famous oil painting, 'The Jack Pine'
Tom's inspiration for the Jack Pine painting, Algonquin Park, Ontario
Headstone for Tom Thomson,Leith Church cemetery, Leith, Ontario
Winifred Trainor (1884-1962), eldest daughter of Hugh Trainor, a foreman with the Huntsville Lumber Company, summered at Canoe Lake with her family. It was there she met Tom Thomson, probably in 1913. Some researchers have drawn attention to the rings on Trainor's 'wedding finger', arguing that their presence lends support to the idea Thomson and Trainor were engaged.
Owen Sound offers this statue as a tribute to Tom, get your pic taken with it
1902 Self Portrait
Water Colours
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Shannon Fraser,Tom Thomson and Charles Robinson
at Mowat Lodge,May 1917
1916 Tom at Cauchon Falls
1916 Tom Shaving
Arthur Lismer & Tom Thomson
Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, 1914
Tom carried sketches in his briefcase
Canoe Lake Train Station, Algonquin Park
Tom's tent at Algonquin Park
Tom at Algonquin Park 1914
1914 (Click here to read letter)
Tom at Lake Scugog
Skull exhumed from Mowat cemetery site believed to be Tom Thomson's skull
Forensic facial recontruction shown above sure looks like it is Tom's skull.