Posted: Jan 22, 2021 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 22
This screenshot is taken from the film In Search of Wendell Beckwith. The film is narrated by Beckwith’s grandson, Tyler Beckwith Evans, who never met his grandfather, but learned about his life through the film and visiting the cabins.(photo: Thunder Bay museum)
A new documentary film focuses on the life of an American scientist who became a legendary part of northwestern Ontario folklore.
The film, In Search of Wendell Beckwith, has just been released online by the Thunder Bay Museum.
The production is a partnership between the museum and local filmmaker Jim Hyder and it examines the life of Beckwith, an American inventor who lived alone on remote Whitewater Lake, between 1961 and his death in 1980.