Tom Thomson

By Spiroo
  • Birth

  • Entered and apprenticeship at an iron foundry owned by William Kennedy, his fathers close friened

  • Turned down from Second Boer war

  • Enrolled in a buisness college in Chatham, Ontario but dropped out to join his older brother George who opperated a buisness school in Seattle

  • Returned to Canada from Seattle where he had a fling with Alice Elinor Lambert

  • Started working with William Cruikshank untill 1906

  • First visited Algonquin park

  • Became working as a full time artist

  • Became a part of the group of seven

  • Became a fire fighter, park ranger and guide in Algonquin park

  • Participates in Royal Canadian Academy of Arts EX

  • Dies under Mysterious Circumstance

    Reported that there was a fishing line rapped around his leg and a head injury
  • Re entered into the family plot