David Thompson (1770-1857)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Belyea, Barbara
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Biographies; Boundaries; Expeditions; Exploration; Explorers; Fur trade; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Inland water navigation; Mapping; Thompson; David; 1770-1857; British Columbia; Manitoba; North America; Ontario; Prairie Provinces; Arrowsmith; Pacific; Arctic; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64844

David Thompson's cartographic achievement is still one of Canada's best-kept secrets, even though the maps of this patient and determined surveyor were the first accurate and complete representations of the country. That Thompson's work should have been ignored so long and so complete...