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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It was one of those rare and consequently cherished warm September days when even the geese believe the summer will last forever. I was fishing for some of the large bass that frequent the docks at Camp Wapomeo at Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. As I sat reflective and musing alert for any change to the tension of my line a canoe with three young men in their late teens pulled close to the dock. We exchanged greetings and they told me this was the third year in a row that they had motored from Toronto to spend a fall weekend in Algonquin. Thinking to test a theory that was loosely formed in my mind I laid down my rod and sauntered over to their canoe. I asked them if they associated Canoe Lake with any significant Canadian event. They looked puzzled and remarked that Canoe Lake was nothing more to them than the beginning and the end of their annual journey. Endeavouring to give them a clue I suggested that this lake played a prominent part in the events surrounding the life and death of a famous Canadian artist. When their response was still a puzzled bewilderment I told them about the important contribution to Canada that had been made by Tom Thomson that he had lived and painted on the shores of this lake and that here he had drowned on July 8 1917. (LL)