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David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.

Historical image related to David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. from June 7, 1800

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…
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Saskatchewan River

River in western Canada

The Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada. It stretches about 550 kilometres (340 mi) from where it is formed by the joining of the North Saskatchewan River and South Saskatchewan River just east of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It flows roughly eastward across…
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Manitoba

Province of Canada

Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,342,153 as of 2021. Manitoba has a widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense…
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