Fallen Soldier
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Fallen Soldier
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
Mowat and Canoe Lake in the lumber years of Algonquin Park must have been 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 toward Lake of Bays and eventually Trenton on Lake Ontario. The headquarters for Algonquin Park was established near the logging camp on Canoe Lake 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 Thomson. World War One was in full stride. Chaos and destruction seemed to rule and the outcome of the war 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 Thomson 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 the oils into mud.
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