Lyric discussion by icemachine 

Cover art for Three Pistols lyrics by Tragically Hip, The

When Tom Thomson died he was courting Winnifred Trainor who was allegedly pregnant with his child, she left for Philadelphia after Thomsons death with her mother, returning after Easter the following year. This might be the "Bride of the Northern Woods" as Trainor lived at her parents cottage on Canoe Lake.

@icemachine @edge24 I don't know for sure but I sounds like an allusion to 3 men