Blodwen Davies, Excerpt from Paddle and Palette (The Story of Tom Thomson), 1930

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At noon on July 8th he [Thomson] set out across Canoe Lake with his supplies for another jaunt into the wilderness. By three o’clock that afternoon his empty canoe was seen floating on the Lake.

It was several days later before this body was found. During that time his friends could not believe that Thomson was dead. They hoped and believed that he was lost in the woods.

He was buried first of all near the spot where he was found, but shortly afterwards his body was removed to Leith where it lies in the graveyard of the little old Presbyterian church which he had attended as a boy.

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