Howse Pass
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Howse Pass is a pass through the Rocky Mountains in Canada. The pass is located in Banff National Park, between Mount Conway and Howse Peak. From here waters flow east via Conway Creek, Howse River, N
A camp in the Howse Pass in 1902
Howse Pass from below
Howse Pass in August 2025
An informational sign at Howse Pass
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
Howse Pass
…to the west and Peigan to the east. In 1806 two men from Rocky Mountain House cut a rough road from the Howse River toward the pass. In June 1807 David Thompson crossed it to the Columbia River. It was named for Joseph Howse, a Hudson's Bay Company factor who crossed it later, in 1809. The pass was not much…
David Thompson
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.