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Thompson’s sight, compromised in his youth by the loss in his right eye, completely failed him by 1851, when he lost the sight of the left one. Although not a welcome situation, his complete blindness and years of misfortune did not diminish his belief in the ultimate goodness of Providence. Nor did it diminish the solace he found in wife Charlotte’s support and “unfailing care”.
On further researching the life of David Thompson, your scribe discovered it was not daughter Fanny, but rather daughter Eliza and her husband, Dalhousie Landall with whom David and Charlotte lived in Longueuil, near Montréal.