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
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.
Fort Okanogan
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Fort Okanogan was founded in 1811 on the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers as a fur trade outpost. Originally built for John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, it was the first American-o
Fort Okanogan in 1853
The site of Fort Okanogan