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Re: Thompson mapping Canada
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2009 Dec 04, 08:57 -0700
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2009 Dec 04, 08:57 -0700
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. -- NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList+@fer3.com