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	David Thompson (explorer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Thompson (April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857), was an English-Canadian map-maker and explorer.
		Thompson's 1814 map, his greatest achievement, was so accurate that 100 years later it was still the basis for many of the maps issued by the Canadian government.
		Thompson also completed the exacting survey of much of the Canada—U.S. boundary along the 49th parallel in the west, and from the St. Lawrence River to Lake of the Woods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Thompson_(explorer) (479 words)

	Thompson, David
		Thompson, David, fur trader, explorer, surveyor, mapmaker (b at London, Eng 30 Apr 1770; d at Longueuil, Canada E 10 Feb 1857).
		In 1799 Thompson was given additional duty as a trader and for the next 7 years he pursued his surveys whenever his other responsibilities permitted, as he rose from clerk to partner.
		Most now agree that Thompson was not aware that an agreement between the NWC and Jacob Astor to support jointly the proposed voyage to the mouth of the Columbia had fallen through, and that he had not been ordered to reach the mouth first in order to forestall them.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007969 (452 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thompson was granted an annual payment of £100 plus a full share of the profits of the company for three years, during which time he was to compile his observations and prepare maps for the NWC.
		Thompson accepted in January 1817 a position as astronomer and surveyor for the boundary commission created under the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent to determine the precise location of the border with the United States.
		Tyrrell, “David Thompson and the Columbia River,” CHR, 18: 12—27; “The rediscovery of David Thompson,” RSC Trans., 3rd ser., 22 (1928), sect.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38340 (5754 words)

	The Life of David Thompson
		David Thompson was born in London, England, on April 30, 1770.
		Thompson spent the remainder of the fall and early winter exploring in the vicinity, and ended the year by establishing Saleesh House on the Clark Fork River near modern day Thompson Falls, Montana.
		Thompson has been accused of destroying journals so as to leave no evidence of his failure, of lying by omission in his Narrative, and of dragging his feet on the trail.
	www.northwestjournal.ca /V1.htm (6849 words)

	David Thompson Canadian Explorer Mapmaker History Pictures
		From 1792 to 1812, David Thompson mapped most of the country west of Hudson Bay and Lake Superior, across the Rocky Mountains to the source of the Columbia River, and the length of the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean.
		David Thompson was dissatisfied with the Hudson’s Bay Company’s emphasis on the fur trade, and after his term of service was up, he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company’s chief rival the North West Company.
		Thompson’s first assignment was to determine the longitude and latitude of the North West Company posts that might be affected by the Jay Treaty of 1794.
	www.thefurtrapper.com /david_thompson.htm (3060 words)

	David Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		David Thompson (businessman), founder of the Hillsdown food group
		David Thompson (singer), the lead singer in the band Thunder Road
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Thompson (146 words)

	Thompson, David (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Explorer and map maker (born on April 30, 1770, at London, England; died on February 10, 1857, at Longueuil, Canada East [Que.]).
		David Thompson came to Canada to work for the HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY when he was 14 years old.
		Towards the end of his life, Thompson was reduced to surveying city streets for a living and he died in poverty.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0007969 (283 words)

	David Thompson Canada's greatest Geographer
		David Thompson in his Narratives, wrote when he was back in Montreal after years with the fur trade, commented, somewhat sarcastically, on the Hudson's Bay Policy to send to the school in which I was educated to procure a scholar who had a mathematical education to send out as clerk.
		David Thompson was very protective of his wife and children and the family was inseparable for the greater part of their marriage.
		Thompson was rarely without the company of his wife and children during these years but when he was, especially when she was expecting, Thompson wrote letters and his letters again reveal much of the man as husband and father.
	www.davidthompsonthings.com /geog1.html (6103 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Fur trader David Thompson explores the Pend Oreille River in September and October 1809.
		Thompson, a trader, surveyor, and mapmaker for the North West Company, is exploring the tributaries of the upper Columbia River for sources of beaver and other furs and for routes to get those furs to market.
		Thompson, born in London in 1770, spent years roaming the rivers, lakes, and forests of central Canada from Hudson’s Bay to the foothills of the Rockies, working first for the Hudson's Bay Company and then for its rival the North West Company.
		Thompson’s mastery of the arcane astronomical and mathematical skills necessary to calculate longitude and latitude and draw accurate maps, combined with his years of experience with the languages and customs of the Indian peoples who supplied the furs, were invaluable to his employers.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5097 (672 words)

	David Thompson: Star-Gazer
		Thompson’s map, his greatest achievement, was so accurate that 100 years later it remained the basis for many of the maps issued by the Canadian government and the railway companies.
		Thompson the Canadian immigrant grew to love ‘the forest and the white water, the shadow and the silence, the evening fire, the stories and the singing and a high heart.’ He was modest, talented and deeply spiritual.
		David and Charlotte Thompson, who had seven sons and six daughters, were only parted by his death fifty-eight years after their marriage.
	www3.telus.net /st_simons/cr9903.htm (912 words)

	David Thompson - Mapping the Northwest - 18th Century - Pathfinders and Passageways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of modest origins, David Thompson was born at Westminster, England, in 1770.
		He was sent to Hudson Bay as a clerical assistant and had the good fortune to spend his first year with the explorer Samuel Hearne at Fort Churchill, transcribing parts of the manuscript of his voyages.
		Thompson continued his surveying career in Lower and Upper Canada and, especially, with the International Boundary Commission, which determined the southern border of Canada.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/h24-1650-e.html (1227 words)

	David Thompson, Explorer and Mapmaker (Part 1)
		David Thompson was born in 1770 in England.
		Thompson and 44 other men were sent on this journey.
		Thompson had the opportunity to hunt buffalo with the Indians.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/62033 (406 words)

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		Thompson’s canoes—up to 40 feet long, bearing up to 1 1/2 tons of furs and paddled by six to 12 voyageurs each—sometimes had to be carried around rocks and rapids or pulled upstream with ropes.
		Thompson was unusual among fur traders in that he did not like to trade liquor to Indians.
		Thompson doted on his wife, and she often helped him in his work; her knowledge of various dialects and languages was particularly helpful.
	www.nvo.com /timharper/newsarticles/article.nhtml?uid=10002 (1876 words)

	Great Canadian Explorers: David Thompson
		The editor is interested in the texts as literature and as a record of time and circumstance, and is thus less interested in the significance of Thompson as part of the general record of Canadian achievement in exploration and discovery.
		David Thompson, undoubtedly one of Canada's greatest explorers and mapmakers, was also one of the finest travel writers of his era.
		Thompson landed at Churchill Factory, Hudson Bay, as a boy apprentice, in 1784.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/multimedia/explorers/thompson.html (455 words)

	David Thompson
		Thompson excelled at everything he did, and by 1799 he was one of the better paid clerks in the company, earning one hundred pounds per year plus twenty pounds worth of equipment and necessities such as clothing, tea, sugar, and chocolate.
		When Thompson's party arrived, a post with a warehouse to store goods and furs had been constructed, and the Astorians were getting ready to send a party up river to initiate trade with the Indians.
		Thompson was not given any credit for his data that was used on the Arrowsmith maps.
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	Introduction - David Thompson - 18th century - Passagways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Thompson is remembered most as a surveyor and map-maker, but he was also a fur trader, explorer, justice of the peace, businessman and author.
		Thompson received both a suit of clothes and a set of surveying instruments.
		Thompson measured the latitude and longitude everywhere he went so the Native people nicknamed him "The Man Who Looks at Stars".
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/kids/h3-1640-e.html (134 words)

	Was David Thompson a Canadian Marco Polo??
		But one of the best things that ever happened to the famous BC explorer David Thompson was when a large log rolled from a sleigh and crushed his leg.
		Even Alexander Mackenzie, the renowned explorer, was quite astounded and remarked that Thompson had performed more in ten months than he expected could have been done in two years.
		When David was only two years old, his father died and his mother moved to London, changing their Welsh name ApThomas to the more easily spoken Thompson.
	www3.telus.net /st_simons/digst102.htm (516 words)

	Explorer David Thompson and the Howse and Athabaska Passes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		* David Thompson, accompanied by his wife and three children, spent time in the upper reaches of the North Saskatchewan River Valley in June, 1807, before crossing through the "Shining Mountains" into what now is British Columbia.
		Thompson's eldest child, Fanny, celebrated her sixth birthday on June 10 of that year, while they still were camped on Kootenay Plains.Fanny was born at Rocky Mountain House.It was not unusual for Charlotte Small and the children in the early years to accompany Thompson on many of his travels.
		1,748 metres) was crossed by David Thompson in 1811, and became thereafter an important route to the Columbia River system.
	www.davidthompsonthings.com /DTPasses.htm (366 words)

	The Seattle Times: Books: The life of explorer David Thompson, Canada's Lewis and Clark
		In "The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau" (Washington State University Press, 180 pp., $29.95), author Jack Nisbet focuses on Thompson's life and exploration of the Columbia Plateau — in particular his survey of the Columbia River from its headwaters in Canada to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean.
		Seven years later, Thompson was one of two boys selected for an apprenticeship with the Hudson's Bay Co. in North America.
		Thompson gave up his surveying life in 1812 and "retired" to Montreal, where he devoted his time initially to mapmaking and finally to writing the story of his travels.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/books/2002795050_mapmaker10.html?... (729 words)

	David Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born at Westminster, England, he became "one of the greatest practical land geographers the world has ever known," as much interested in mapping and exploration as he was in fur trading, his ostensible occupation.
		He reached the mouth of the Columbia July 15, 1811, after the Astorians had commenced construction of their post, although his arrival at that point was never his principal aim, for his business was trading and locating new fur country.
		In 1916 he published Thompson's narrative, and publication of his field journals was accomplished piecemeal later, so that Thompson gradually is coming into the widespread recognition he deserves.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/biography/dthompson.htm (417 words)

	The David Thompson Story
		The David Thompson Story is a story of physical adventure and of the spiritual inspiration Thompson took from the natural wonders he encountered.
		More than is typical in the world of drama, The David Thompson Story is the result of detailed archival research.
		The David Thompson Story incorporates a number of themes—including Thompson’s love of the natural landscape and his ability to draw inspiration from the physical challenges he faced—as illustrated in the following excerpts:
	www.banffcentre.ca /MountainCulture/media/2001/davidthompson.html (656 words)

	Plains Folk: David Thompson
		One of the oddest and most forlorn historical monuments in this part of the country is the David Thompson Memorial, in the Souris River Valley, McHenry County, North Dakota.
		If you’re unfamiliar with David Thompson, don’t feel bad, because as Jenish notes, “He died penniless and obscure in 1857 and remained unknown to the Canadian public,” let alone the American, until 1916, when his autobiography was unearthed and published.
		Thompson practiced adroit diplomacy and, I suspect, knew when to shrink from a fight, thereby living to explore again and, he hoped, make his maps of the country.
	www.ext.nodak.edu /extnews/newsrelease/2004/042204/04plains.htm (696 words)

	Oregon History ProjectOregon Biographies David Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the late 1840s explorer David Thompson wrote a journal of his travels over the past half century.
		Thompson began to map the surrounding area in 1789 and two years later received informal training in astronomy from Phillip Torner, a Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor.
		Thompson had hoped to establish a fur post at the mouth of the river, securing the first navigable route between Lake Athabasca and the Pacific Ocean, but he found that John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company had already established Fort Astoria.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-David-Thompson.cfm (479 words)

	Archives of Ontario Microfilm: David Thompson fonds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Thompson (1770-1857) was an explorer, surveyor, and astronomer for the Hudson Bay Company and the Northwest Company who also completed survey work of the Canada-United States border for the British Government under the Treaty of Ghent.
		Thompson completed his well-known map of what are now western Canada and the Northwestern United States in 1814.
		In 1817, Thompson was hired as an astronomer and surveyor for the British Commission established under the Treaty of Ghent.
	www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/interloan/f443athomps.htm (602 words)

	Thompson, David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1784 he came to Fort Churchill, Canada, as an apprentice of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and until 1797 he was a fur trader of Hudson Bay and in the Athabasca country to the west.
		He then went to Montreal, where he made (1812–14) a large and invaluable map of W Canada for the North West Company, long the best map of the region.
		Thompson, however, received little open recognition except an appointment (1816–26) to the commission for surveying the U.S.-Canadian boundary.
	www.bartleby.com /65/th/ThmpsnD.html (285 words)

	BFRO Report 1399: A surveyor and trader for the Northwest Company comes across tracks of an unusually large, ...
		Once upon a time, on January 7th, 1811, David Thompson, a surveyor and trader for the Northwest Company, was attempting to cross the Rocky Mountains near the present day site of Jasper, Alberta.
		Thompson kept a daily journal, (see T.C. Elliott, "Journal of David Thompson," Oregon Historical Quarterly, 15 (March-June 1914) Thompson also published a work called the "Narrative", which was based on his journals.
		As snow was about six inches in depth the track was well defined, and we could see it for a full hundred yards from us, this animal was proceeding from north to south.
	www.bfro.net /GDB/show_report.asp?id=1399 (413 words)

	Amazon.com: Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America: Books: Jack Nisbet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DAVID THOMPSOM WAS born in London of Welsh parents in 1770.
		Based on David Thompson's own account of his explorations of the western North American continent, this is a perceptive tale of hardship and adventure.
		David Thompson, after whom the Thompson River in British Columbia was named and perhaps the most unsung of the great North American explorers, was faced with a mystery to solve.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570610061?v=glance (1751 words)

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