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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Louis Jolliet, David Thompson, William Grant Stairs, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Richard Weber, Thomas McKay, John Hemming, William Fraser Tolmie, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Verendrye, Jeff Fuchs, Josee Auclair, Norman Elder, Peter Fidler, Colin Angus, C. S. Wright, Walter Moberly, Henry John Moberly, William Leonard Hunt, Jaco Finlay, Paul Landry, William Kennedy, Pierre Robineau de Portneuf, Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Verendrye, William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton, Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye, Sylvester Joe, Jean Baptiste de La Verendrye, Albert Peter Low, Jacques de Noyon, Rudolph Martin Anderson, Louis Groston de Saint-Ange de Bellerive, Walter Butler Cheadle, Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, Frank Cole, Albert Faille, Joseph-Elzear Bernier, Francois Beaulieu, Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, Joseph La France, Samson Beaver, Francois de La Verendrye, Gabriel Franchere, Matonabbee, Alexander Kennedy Isbister, Etienne Bellenger, Yves Fortier, Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Joseph Davis, Frank Moberly, Philip Turnor, Francois Byssot de la Riviere, George Best, Pierre Allemand. Excerpt: David Thompson (April 30, 1770 - February 10, 1857) was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer." Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometers of North America and for this has been described as the "greatest land geographer who ever lived." Thompson was born in Westminster to recent Welsh migrants, David and Ann Thompson. When Thompson was two, his father died and the financial hardship of this occurrence resulted in his and his brother's placement in the Grey Coat Hospital, a school for the disadvantaged of Westminster. He eventually graduated to the Grey Coat mathematical...
