Builders of Canada series: David Thompson & Pierre Berton.(Obituary)

David Thompson
David Thompson was an explorer, a geographer, a I cartographer and, in his early years in Canada, a fur trader. He was born in London, England in 1770 of impoverished Welsh parents and, after his father's death, attended the Grey Coat gymnasium a royal foundation providing an of the first grade Christian education for those rare orphans fortunate enough to be accepted as pupils.
He was an outstanding pupil and learned mathematics, geography, mechanics and navigation, as well as being expos to travellers' tales, of the like kind as Gulliver's Travels. It was a curriculum