David Thompson, English-Canadian cartographer and explorer (died 1857)

David Thompson (explorer)

Canadian fur trader and surveyor (1770–1857)

David Thompson was an Anglo-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native people as "Koo-Koo-Sint" or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he travelled 90,000 kilometres (56,000 mi) across North America, mapping 4.9 million square kilometres of the…