Thomas Edward Lumsden, who also used the alias Hutchinson, was 24 when he disappeared during a canoeing trip in Ontario in the spring of 1974. He and 23-year-old friend Carl Braum were last seen the morning of May 19 leaving Depot Harbour, just west of Parry Sound on the Wasauksing Ojibway First Nation, in a 14-foot fiberglass canoe heading north toward Killbear Park.

Authorities noted the canoe had no lifejackets. A nearby canoe had capsized the day before, and two other men from the West Parry Sound area went missing in the same waters around that time and were presumed drowned. Search efforts were carried out but the landscape and water depths offered major obstacles, and Thomas’s disappearance remains unresolved.