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David Thompson was born in Westminister, London, England. When he was two, his father died and him and his brother went to the Grey Coat Hospital, a school for the disadvantaged, when he was 7.
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He was apprenticed to the HBC (Hudson's Bay Company) and was sent out to sea. From 1784 to 1797, he was a clerk at the bay but eventually left the company.
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On the 23rd, David fell down a bank and broke his leg. It was very serious, almost life-threating. The person who ran the Manchester House, bound the leg.
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He measured a lunar distance for the longitude of the Cumberland House. He made 34 over the next 4 months and 6 observations of the latitude.
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David set out again, reaching the Reed Lake House, September 2. He brought three canoes full of trading goods for the new fur post.
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His wife, Charlotte Small, had given birth to their first child. It was a girl and they named her Fanny.
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He surveyed the north shore of the lake while he was on his way east and he arrived at Terrebonne, north of Montreal, in the fall.
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David had died two months before his 87th birthday. His wife, Charlotte, passed three months after. They are buried side by side in Montreal's Mount Royal cemetery.
