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If you didn't have a chance to pick up this weekend's Globe and Mail, follow this link to John Allemang's piece on Canada's greatest inland explorer, David Thompson. Interviewed for the piece is William E. Moreau, editor of The Writings of David Thompson, Volume I, The Travels, published by MQUP this weekend.
A fur trader in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, Thompson accurately mapped over three million square kilometers of North America while keeping extensive travel journals about his thoughts and impressions of the land. More than an explorer, Thompson was an exceptional prose stylist who balances romantic description with what William E. Moreau calls a "rational, calculating side." Mr. Allemang's story and Mr. Moreau's interview show how Thompson is an early Canadian hero for being so "open-minded, observant and methodical." The story and the book are testaments to a remarkable figure in Canadian history who is also one of the country's earliest — and most fascinating – writers.
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