Explorer. A fur trader and geographer, for 34 years he mapped the main routes between the Saint Lawrence River and the Pacific Ocean. He surveyed the West and found an economical route down the Columbia to the Pacific.
Explorer. A fur trader and geographer, for 34 years he mapped the main routes between the Saint Lawrence River and the Pacific Ocean. He surveyed the West and found an economical route down the Columbia to the Pacific.
Inscription
David Thompson
1770 1857
To The Memory Of
The Greatest Of
Canadian Geographers
Who For 34 Years
Explored & Mapped
The Main Travel
Routes Between The
St. Lawrence
& The Pacific
Gravesite Details
The current monument was erected in 1927 through an initiative of the Canadian Historical Society. A sextant originally decorating the top of the monument was recently removed for safe-keeping by cemetery staff.
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