Relics
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Relics
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
This is number two in the Canoe Lake Paddle as numbered along the path of the paddle.
These shoreline stumps are relics of history - from a time when Mowat and Canoe Lake must have been more like a war zone. The village of Mowat was first established in 1893 on the northwest shore of Canoe Lake as a logging camp for the Gilmour Lumber Company. Logs were driven down the Oxtongue River towards Lake of Bays and eventually Trenton on Lake Ontario. The headquarters for Algonquin Park was established near the logging camp also in 1893. By 1897 the village of Mowat had grown to 500 residents and there were 18 km of railway siding. The village of Mowat was abandoned by Gilmour Lumber Co. in 1900.
As these pictures taken by Tom Thomson reveal, the landscape was denuded of valuable timber. The chips from the processing of the logs were dumped in the nearby shallow waters of Canoe Lake and are still there. The forest fell at least for a few decades. The trees have certainly come back but a few fallen soldiers and dead heads remain. I have no idea how long this particular log has been in the water. Pine logs decay very slowly and may take 200 years to break down.
As I paddled by I was thinking these thoughts and imagining what it might have been like in the time of Tom. World War One was in full stride. Chaos and destruction seemed to rule and the outcome was far from certain. A fallen pine laying on its side in the waters of Canoe Lake would seem insignificant... but not to me. I had to paddle around it. The little things matter. Tom and the Group of Seven turned these scenes into beauty.
I used a lot of paint on this small and very slippery surface. I simply laid the oils in and tried to leave them - continued stroking of the paint would turn it into mud. The name also appears courtesy of The Beachcombers - a Canadian television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990
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