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David Thompson (explorer) David Thompson (30 April 1770 – 10 February 1857) was an Anglo-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer".
Apr 30, 2024 · David Thompson (born April 30, 1770, London, Eng.—died Feb. 10, 1857, Longeuil, Lower Canada [now Quebec]) was an English explorer, geographer, and fur trader in the western parts of what are now Canada and the United States. He was the first white man to explore the Columbia River from source to mouth.
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David Thompson, explorer, cartographer (born 30 April 1770 in London, England; died 10 February 1857 in Longueuil, Canada East). David Thomson was called “the greatest land geographer who ever lived.”. He walked or paddled 80,000 km or more in his life, mapping most of western Canada, parts of the east and the northwestern United States.
Aug 11, 2023 · By Thompson’s account, the devil walked in and challenged Thompson to a game of checkers — actually, several games of checkers, all of which Thompson won. Once defeated, the Spaniard-looking, short-horned devil simply disappeared. The experience made a lifelong, devout Christian of the young man, and the devil apparently made no further ...
THOMPSON, DAVID, fur trader, explorer, surveyor, justice of the peace, businessman, and author; b. 30 April 1770 in the parish of St John the Evangelist, Westminster (London), son of David and Ann Thompson; d. 10 Feb. 1857 in Longueuil, Lower Canada. David Thompson’s origins were humble, his final years spent in poverty.
Feb 8, 2012 · David Thompson and the Mapping of Canada. Article by Tom Radford. Published Online February 8, 2012. Last Edited March 4, 2015. The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. Born in London of Welsh parents, David Thompson was an outsider, struggling to find a foothold in ...
Parks Canada, 2006. David Thompson (1770-1857) fur trader, astronomer and surveyor, mapped more of North America than anyone else. By horseback, canoe, dog sled and on foot, he travelled some 90,000 kilometres (55,000 miles), equivalent to circling the globe twice. His great map of the West depicted one sixth of North America.
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