Grey Coat Featured in BBC Documentary
November 2009
Grey Coat was featured in a recent documentary on the explorer and cartographer David Thompson. Thompson, our most famous Old Grey, was educated at Grey Coat and in 1784, at the age of fourteen, entered a seven-year apprenticeship with the Hudson's Bay Company. Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometres of North America and for this has been described as the ‘greatest land geographer who ever lived.’ He was known to some native peoples as ‘Koo-Koo-Sint’ or ‘the Stargazer’. The programme was part of Ray Mear’s Northern Wilderness series and was broadcast on BBC2 on Sunday 22nd November.
Related stories: Ray Mears visits GCH for BBC filming (June 2009)
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