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"As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and ...
David THompson has been called one of the world's greatest geographers. During his 28 years in the fur trade, THompson walked, canoed, rode horses, and snow-shoed 88,500 kilometres, and surveyed more than 3 million squar...
A biography of the Canadian explorer, fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, David Thompson.
During his lifetime he mapped a million and a half square miles of uncharted country; the greatest achievement in land geography of all time. This film re-creates Thompson's story, culminating in his journey to the Pacif...
COMPANION TO: GEORGE VANCOUVER, ISBN 9781773085883. Follow in the footsteps of some of Canadas greatest explorers in this high-interest series. Each title chronicles the timeline of an explorer, explains the motivation b...