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Name: David Thompson
Birth Date: 1770
Death Date: 1857
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupations: explorer, cartographer, surveyor

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David Thompson (1770-1857) was a Canadian explorer, cartographer, and surveyor. He was the first white man to descend the Columbia River from its source to its mouth. David Thompson was born at Westminster, England, on April 30, 1770. After a...
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Just as the British-American War of 1812 began, David Thompson, a leading North American mapmaker, explorer, and travel writer, went to Montreal for the first and only time. Forty-two years old, he had completed explorations and surveys of the West...


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David Thompson Born April 30, 1770, London, England Died February 10, 1857, Montreal, Quebec David Thompson was born on April 30, 1770, in London, England. He attended a charity school that apprenticed him at age 14 to the Hudson’s Bay Company,...
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1770-1857 English-Canadian Fur Trader, Surveyor and Explorer David Thompson has been characterized as "one of the greatest practical land geographers the world has ever known," having done all his work in western North America,...
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David Thompson (April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857), was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometres of...


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The food at the Sedgwick County jail is barely edible and disgusting to look at, according to two county commissioners who ate at the jail this week.Commissioners Gwen Welshimer and Kelly Parks ate at the jail Monday after receiving an anonymous tip about the food....
 


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