David Thompson (explorer)
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David Thompson was a British fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he travelled 90,000 kilometres across Nor
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Grey Coat Hospital, front entrance, taken in 1880
Postage stamp commemorating David Thompson's life
David Thompson and two First Nations guides on the shore of Lac la Biche, where he landed on 4 October 1798.
Churchill, Manitoba
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Churchill is a subarctic port town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly 140 km from the Manitoba–Nunavut border. It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlbo
David Thompson (explorer)
…He set sail on a ship to North America on 28 May of that year, leaving England. On 2 September 1784, Thompson arrived in Churchill (now in Manitoba) and was put to work as a clerk/secretary, copying the personal papers of the governor of Fort Churchill, Samuel Hearne. The next year…
Churchill in 2010
Prince of Wales Fort
Polar bear statue in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Beluga whales