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Title:Thompson's Highway : British Columbia's Fur Trade, 1800-1850
Series:(Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 3)
Author:Alan Twigg
ISBN:1553800397 : 9781553800392
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:253
Weight: .396 Kg.
Published:Ronsdale Press - October 2006
List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Local history: British Columbia


Twigg traces the writings of David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and thirty of their peers, mainly Scotsmen, who founded and managed more than fifty forts west of the Rockies prior to 1850. After the failure of Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser to find a navigable route to the Pacific Ocean, it was the remarkable mapmaker, David Thompson, who was instrumental in creating the 'highway' for commerce that connected both sides of the North American continent. Thompson's exploration and mapping enabled George Simpson, the 'Little Emperor' of the Hudson's Bay Company, and James Douglas, the founding father of the province, finally to bring viability to the corporate fur trade on the so-called Western Slope.