The second edition of 1962 has a new Introduction, followed by Tyrrell’s original “David Thompson’s Itinerary in North-Western Americana, 1785-1812.” From the outset of this new Introduction, Glover is critical of the critics of the HBC, for example Hearne, Thompson, and Umfreville, as well as of the hagiographers of those traders and authors, e.g. even Tryrell could sink to writing that Thompson bore continuously “the white flower of the blameless life”, and lesser men wrote still worse stuff” (p. xii). Grover is a stylish and provocative writer, and few escape his ascerbic pen.
David Thompson’s Narrative 1784-1812.
Thompson, David. A New Edition with Added Material Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Glover. (Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1962). [This is Volume XL. Volume XII of The Publications of the Champlain Society, Edited by J. B. Tyrrell, was published by the Society in 1916.].
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David Thompson’s Narrative of His Explorations in Western America 1784-1812.
Thompson, David. Edited by J. B. Tyrrell. (Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1916). [Volume XII of The Publications of the Champlain Society. A new edition edited by Richard Grover, with additional material, was published by the Society in 1962.].
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David Thompson (1770-1857), after early education at a London charity school where he studied mathematics and navigation, signed on as an apprentice with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1784, and worked as surveyor for both the HBC and the North West Company.