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Re: Thompson mapping Canada
From: Andrew Corl
Date: 2009 Dec 4, 08:22 -0800
From: Ken Muldrew <kmuldrew@ucalgary.ca>
To: navlist@fer3.com
Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 10:57:55 AM
Subject: Re: [NavList 10906] Thompson mapping Canada
On 4 Dec 2009 at 5:58, joseph_schultz@rrv.net wrote:
> We may not have heard of Thompson if it hadn't been for the efforts of
> Joseph Tyyrrell. His "David Thompson's narrative...." is interesting
> reading. The university in Toronto has a digital version of this book,
> but the URL is a bazillion characters long. Access it at the bottom of
> the following.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thompson_(explorer)
>
> I think the field books are still in Ontario's provincial archives. Have
> they been digitized?
No. You can get microfilm through interlibrary loan but they are pretty
tough to read. You can see a sample page here:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/Thompson013.JPG
Peter Fidler's journals are, by contrast, much more legible. They are also
available in microfilm but I have images of most of what is available from
the Hudson Bay archives if anyone is interested.
Barbara Belyea, who edited Thompson's journals (Columbia Journals,
University of Washington Press, 1998) has been working on producing a
volume of Fidler's Saskatchewan journals but I haven't heard of a
publication date yet.
> 1870s. WGS-84 now has N49 almost where it was at the 1818 treaty! The
> border in northeastern Minnesota wasn't resolved until the 1940s, due to
> the remoteness of the area. Didn't Thompson "survey" this area twice?
After retiring from the fur trade, Thompson was part of the boundary
survey team that implemented the borders agreed to in the Treaty of Ghent.
Ken Muldrew.
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From: Andrew Corl
Date: 2009 Dec 4, 08:22 -0800
I think Thompson's Journal is available compelte on Google Books. I think that is where I found it.
From: Ken Muldrew <kmuldrew@ucalgary.ca>
To: navlist@fer3.com
Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 10:57:55 AM
Subject: Re: [NavList 10906] Thompson mapping Canada
On 4 Dec 2009 at 5:58, joseph_schultz@rrv.net wrote:
> We may not have heard of Thompson if it hadn't been for the efforts of
> Joseph Tyyrrell. His "David Thompson's narrative...." is interesting
> reading. The university in Toronto has a digital version of this book,
> but the URL is a bazillion characters long. Access it at the bottom of
> the following.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thompson_(explorer)
>
> I think the field books are still in Ontario's provincial archives. Have
> they been digitized?
No. You can get microfilm through interlibrary loan but they are pretty
tough to read. You can see a sample page here:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/Thompson013.JPG
Peter Fidler's journals are, by contrast, much more legible. They are also
available in microfilm but I have images of most of what is available from
the Hudson Bay archives if anyone is interested.
Barbara Belyea, who edited Thompson's journals (Columbia Journals,
University of Washington Press, 1998) has been working on producing a
volume of Fidler's Saskatchewan journals but I haven't heard of a
publication date yet.
> 1870s. WGS-84 now has N49 almost where it was at the 1818 treaty! The
> border in northeastern Minnesota wasn't resolved until the 1940s, due to
> the remoteness of the area. Didn't Thompson "survey" this area twice?
After retiring from the fur trade, Thompson was part of the boundary
survey team that implemented the borders agreed to in the Treaty of Ghent.
Ken Muldrew.
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