in poverty, 59;
astronomer of North West Company, 57; previously in service of Hudson's
Bay Company, 57-58; extent of his travels, 58; visits Mandan country,
58; enters Bow River Pass, 1805, 58; discovers Howse Pass, 58; builds
Fort Kootenay, 58; first to explore Kootenay district, 58; discoverer of
Athabaska Pass, 58; proclaims British sovereignty, at junction of
Spokane and Columbia, 58. =Bib.=: Tyrrell, _Journeys of David Thompson_;
_Henry-Thompson Journals_, ed. by Coues; Laut, _Conquest of the Great
North-West_; Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay
Company_.

=Thompson, David= (1796-1868). Born in Scotland. Served in the British
army and in the Canadian militia. Taught school in Niagara and acted as
a surveyor. In 1832 published _History of the late War between Great
Britain and the United States of America_.

=Thompson, Edward.= =Mc= Defeats Mackenzie, 308.

=Thompson, James.= =Dr= Engineer, his work on the fortifications of
Quebec, 117.

=Thompson, Sir John Sparrow David= (1844-1894). Born in Halifax, Nova
Scotia. Educated at Free Church Academy, Halifax. In 1859 a reporter in
the House of Assembly. In 1865 called to the bar and practised in
Halifax. In 1877 member for Antigonish, in the Assembly; and in 1878
attorney-general in the Holmes-Thompson government. On the retirement of
Holmes in 1882, became premier, but being defeated in the House,
resigned two months later. In 1882 appointed a judge of the Supreme
Court. In 1885 minister of justice and attorney-general of Canada, in
Sir John A. Macdonald's government, being elected for Antigonish to the
House of Commons. Appointed legal adviser to the British
plenipotentiaries who arranged the Fishery Treaty with the United States
in 1888, and knighted for his services. In 1892 premier, on the
retirement of Sir John Abbott. In 1893 went to Paris as one of the
arbitrators upon the Bering Sea fisheries dispute. In 1894, while on a
visit to England, and soon after being sworn in as a member of the
Imperial Privy Council, died suddenly at Windsor Castle. =Index=: =Md=
Minister of justice, 254; his address when unveiling statue of John A.
Macdonald at Hamilton, 332. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Dict. Nat.
Biog._; Hopkins, _Life of Sir John Thompson_.

=Thompson, Samuel.= =B= His pen picture of George Brown, 4-5.

=Thompson, S. R.= =T= Anti-Confederate candidate in St. John County, New
Brunswick, 108, 109.

=Thompson, William= (1725-1781).