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Columbia Journals : David Thompson

1993

His next postings were to the Athabaska and Fort des Prairies departments, the farthest exten- sions of the fur trade at the close of the eighteenth century.3 Following Tumor's example, Thompson observed, mapped, kept a journal and looked forward to the senior partners' approval of expe- 1. See Nicks's account of Thompson in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. [...] George Simpson, the governor of the new Northern Department, continued the HBC practice of forwarding information to Aaron Arrowsmith, who used it to update his own map of North America.7 In 1817, Thompson was engaged by the International Boundary Commission set up by the Treaty of Ghent to survey the Anglo- American border from Lake of the Woods to the Eastern Townships of Quebec. [...] Anxious to fit the (absence of) data to his theory of the "race," Morton hinted darkly: "It is not safe to rely on evidence of the man Thompson himself, all the more so since there is a strange, perhaps a determined silence in his journals at this point."10 Confusing, as Tyrrell had done, the roles of historian and editor, Glover took up the "race" debate in the second edition of the Narrative and [...] The persona of the journals, which is retained in great measure in the Narrative, defeats the efforts of Tyrrell, Glover, Hopwood and others to characterize and identify the writer apart from his distinct functions in the two texts. [...] Mackenzie's journal relates the incidents of the day to his "darling project" of reaching the Pacific; Fraser's journal obsessively recounts the dangers of his voyage; Simpson's ruminates on the reorganization of the Columbia Department.
fur trade northwest, canadian description and travel northwest, pacific thompson, david, 1770-1857 to 1821

Authors

David Thompson, Barbara Belyea

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-330) and index
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
971.2/01
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
0773509895 9780773574311
LCCN
F1060.7
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T46 1994eb
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CaOONL
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1 electronic text (xxiv, 336 p.)
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Canada
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00200881 (CaBNVSL)slc00200881 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)243564388 (CaOOCEL)403844
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