Roy MacGregor grew up in Huntsville, close to his beloved Algonquin Park, where he spent his childhood surrounded by stories of the famous painter. At the heart of it all was MacGregor’s relative, Winnie Trainor, the “old maid” too eccentric to be considered a romantic character, even if it was well known that Tom Thomson had once been in love with her. MacGregor’s fascination with the mysterious painter went deeper. Thomson had made friends in Northern Ontario, but also enemies. He liked to drink and canoe for days on end; he was also seen as a seducer. Be that as it may, the artist’s body was found in Canoe Lake in July 1917.
The confusion surrounding his death and burial site was never resolved. In Northern Light (L’étoile du nord), MacGregor offers new leads and reveals previously hidden details of Thomson’s final days, as well as forensic data. Was Thomson a good-for-nothing womanizer or a visionary artist and gentleman? Did he drown accidentally or was he a victim of homicide? The myth of Tom Thomson has grown to obscure the reality of what happened, but the answers to many of these questions are finally revealed here.
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- Ottawa, CA
- Series
- Biographies et mémoires
Table of Contents
- Couverture 1
- Demi-page de titre 2
- Page titre 4
- Page de droits d’auteur 5
- La dédicace 6
- Table des matières 12
- Notice du traducteur 14
- Lieux et personnages 16
- Prologue 22
- Chapitre 1: Tom 32
- Chapitre 2: Winnie 44
- Chapitre 3: Le nord de l’Ontario 66
- Chapitre 4: Le lac Canoe 76
- Chapitre 5: La guerre 86
- Chapitre 6: Le printemps 1917 96
- Chapitre 7: Les recherches 110
- Chapitre 8: Le rôle de Winnie Trainor 122
- Chapitre 9: Le cercueil scellé 132
- Chapitre 10: À la recherche des coupables 144
- Chapitre 11: Daphne 158
- Chapitre 12: Limiter les dégâts 178
- Chapitre 13: Un enfant ? 192
- Chapitre 14: La vie après Tom 208
- Chapitre 15: L’exhumation 224
- Chapitre 16: La révélation 246
- Chapitre 17: Le poids du silence 262
- Chapitre 18: Après Tom 266
- Chapitre 19: L’icône 282
- Chapitre 20: La version de Jimmy 294
- Épilogue 304
- Remerciements 310
- Bibliographie choisie 314
- Liste des figures 316
- Index 318
- Biographies et mémoires 326
- Couverture arrière 328