By Tom Shardlow
David Thompson was a young boy from London, longing for excitement when stepped ashore at Churchill Factory in 1784. He went on to become a legendary explorer having traveled some 80,000kms by canoe, foot or on horseback by the time he retired. This biography tells of his boyhood working at the Hudson’s Bay Company, training as a fur trader and surveyor, family life with his métis wife and his many adventures.
