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Tom Thomson's Last Paddle

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  • Publisher:
    Dundurn Press, 2002
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: McCloskey, Larry
    Date:
    Created
    2002
    Summary:

    While camping in Ontario’s Algonquin Park with their fathers, best friends Dani and Caitlin spend the night by themselves at an isolated site on Canoe Lake, rumoured to be the favourite spot of the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson. After a sleepless night, the girls are stunned by the appearance of a ghostly canoe drifting towards the shore. Is this really the ghost of Tom Thomson, the creator of The Jack Pine and West Wind?

    Genre:
    Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn
    Language(s): English