Case file · Haunting
Tom Thomson at Canoe Lake
Painter Tom Thomson vanished on Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, on 8 July 1917; his body surfaced eight days later with a head wound, and canoeists still report his phantom canoe in the mist.
1917 CE · 45.57, -78.72 · status: disputed
The account
The official ruling was accidental drowning, but murder theories persist, and his grave at Canoe Lake may still hold his body although the family moved it to Leith.
The sceptical view
The ghost canoe is a campfire tale; the death itself is a real unsolved question.