DAVID THOMPSON

WHO IS MY EXPLORER?

• Born April 30, 1770 London England
• Dad died when he was two years old
• Brother named John
• Really good at math and science
• Hudson's Bay Company visited his school and he worked for them for seven years
• Married a Metis girl named Charlotte
• Had 13 children
• He died 1857 and was 87 years old and blind

WHAT DID MY EXPLORER DO?

• David worked for Hudson Bay Company
• He was known as one of Canada's greatest land geographers and map makers
• He was a surveyor and mapped an area of 3.9 million km from Hudson Bay to Pacific Ocean
• He was a good fur trader
• Built trading post called Manchester house
• He was the first European to find the Rocky Mountain pass to Pacific Ocean

WHERE DID MY EXPLORER DO HIS EXPLORATIONS?

• Did his explorations in London, England
• Hudson Bay company in Canada
• North America, specially in Canada's west
• Pacific Ocean
• Also the U.S.A.

WHEN DID MY EXPLORER GO EXPLORING?

• Did most of his explorations between 1797 and 1812
• Between 1797 and 1798, he joined the Northwest Company and mapped the US border
• In 1807 he found a pass through the Rockies and set up trading post
• In 1811 he followed the Colombia river to the mouth of the Pacific Ocean
• In 1812 he finished map of Northwest Canada and the US

WHY DID MY EXPLORER GO EXPLORING?

• Left England to get job with Northwest company
• In 1807 he found a pass through the Rockies and set up trading post
• The men of Northwest company needed him to map all of the trading posts
• He also mapped the US border

HOW DID MY EXPLORER EXPLORE?

• While exploring he traveled by canoe, horse, and used walking boots and snowshoes
• He used many surveying tools to help him with his map making
• He needed a telescope and a sextant
• Sextant is an instrument for measuring distances between objects by using mirrors
• He learned to speak Cree and Peigan to communicate with Indians

HOW THINGS CHANGED BECAUSE OF HIS EXPLORATIONS

• Maps were created for the places he found
• Many people began using these maps
• He mapped 3.9 million kilometres
• We now have a detailed route between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean

REFLECTION

• He is a risk-taker because he left England when he was young to work for Hudson's bay company
• Also a communicator because he created many new maps to help people know about places he found
• He was an inquirer because he wanted to learn new languages