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In honour of David Thompsons's bicentennial, The North American David Thompson Bicentennials initiative was created to commemorate the character and accomplishments of prominent trader, naturalist, surveyor and map-maker David Thompson.
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Further Reading
The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1
By David Thompson, edited by William E. Moreau
David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America.
The tale spans the years 1784 to 1807 and extends from the Great Lakes to the Rockies, from Athabasca to Missouri. A distinguished literary work, the Travels alternates between the expository prose of the scientist and the vivid language of the storyteller, animated throughout by a restless spirit of inquiry and sense of wonder.
The definitive collection of Thompson's works, The Writings of David Thompson will bring one of North American's most important early travellers and surveyors and his world to a whole new generation of readers.
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