THOMPSON, DAVID, fur trader, explorer, surveyor, justice of the peace, businessman

 Dec. 1853. Samuel Thompson*, in partnership with two others, bought the Colonist from Scobie’s widow, and other parts of his

PFC party established Fort Astoria (Astoria, Oreg.). On 22 July, Ross went up the Columbia with a trading expedition under David Stuart. The PFC men were accompanied for a short distance by David

Reverend Robert David Cartwright (1832–33), John Solomon Cartwright* (1833–34), and Charles William Grant (Alwington, 1834, now destroyed

several years in the Fort des Prairies department (Sask.). In 1807 he accompanied David Thompson on his

explorer-colleagues David Thompson and Simon Fraser

by the merger of the NWC and the HBC in March 1821, and then he served as accountant at Fort George. In 1826 he took charge of Thompson’s River Post (Kamloops, B.C.) and in the fall of that year he

, Finan McDonald and a certain Lagacé, at Hell’s Gate Pass (near Helena, Mont.). This meeting would have been some time after 1807, the year McDonald arrived in the Columbia region with David

the HBC’s first foray into the Rocky Mountains is, ironically, documented only in the journals of David Thompson

Bibaud, édit. (Montréal, 1820). HBRS, 2 (Rich and Fleming). A. Ross, Adventures on the Columbia. David Thompson, David Thompson’s narrative, 1784–1812, ed. R. [G

). David Thompson, David Thompson’s narrative, 1784–1812, ed. R. [G.] Glover (new ed., Toronto, 1962). Van Kirk, “Many tender ties.”

Henry* the younger in September 1810, Bethune accompanied Henry to Rocky Mountain House (Alta). Late in the fall of 1810 David