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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DAVID THOMPSON

BY THOMAS

WHO IS MY EXPLORER?

  • He was named after his father.
  • His father died when he was two years old.
  • He was born on April 30, 1770 in England.
  • He died in1857 and was blind.
  • As a boy, went to the Gray Coat School and he was good at math and science.
  • The Northwest Company from Canada visited the school and chose to take him and teach him to be a fur trader.
  • He worked with them for a long time.
  • He married a Metis woman named Charlotte and had 13 children.

WHAT DID MY EXPLORER DO?

  • He was a good fur trader.
  • He enjoyed studying the environment and was a good writer.
  • He made big maps.
  • He is known for mapping western Canada from Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean.
  • He built a trading post called Manchester House.
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WHERE DID MY EXPLORER DO HIS EXPLORATIONS?

  • He mapped the U.S. border.
  • He joined the Northwest Company in England and came to Canada.
  • He set up Manchester House as a trading posts in western Canada.
  • He discovered a pass from the Colombia River to the mouth of the Pacic Ocean.
  • He mapped western Canada.

WHEN DID MY EXPLORER GO EXPLORING

  • In 1807 he found a pass though the rockies.
  • In 1811 he followed the Columbia river to the mouth of the Pacific Ocean
  • He did most of his explorations between 1797 and 1812.
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WHY DID MY EXPLORER GO EXPLORING?

  • He made a trading post for other traders to trade and rest at.
  • It was his job to make maps of the trading routes and trading posts for the Northwest Company.
  • He liked being in the outdoor environment.

HOW DID MY EXPLORER DO HIS EXPLORATIONS?

  • He took good field notes and kept a journal.
  • He used a canoe and a horse to get around.
  • He used a good telescope
  • He used walking boots and snowshoes.
  • He learned how to speak several Indiginous languages to communicate.
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HOW DID THINGS CHANGE AFTER MY EXPLORER DID HIS EXPLORATIONS?

  • He made big, detailed maps and mapped all of the places he went.
  • People started using these maps to understand western Canada.
  • He mapped a total of 3.9million km.

REFLECTIVE COMMENT

  • He was a communicator because he learned to speak with the Indigenous people.
  • He was a risk-taker because he did dangerous things like walking through the Rocky Mountains, canoeing down rivers and having to survive in the wilderness.
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