1755 East 55th Avenue
1958-present
The school is named for David Thompson (1770 – 1857), the British-Canadian fur trader, explorer, and map maker.
Ground view of entrance to David Thompson Secondary, main building (1970).
Front View (1958).
Construction sign (1957).
Bob Peacock, Coordinator of Business Education, speaking to Registrar at Secretaries Day Conference (1980).
A student assembles the metal frame for a greenhouse on school property (1972).
Students building the school’s greenhouse (1972).
Students building the school’s greenhouse (1972).
Dean Soward, UBC History Dept., and Mrs John Quinnell , Chairperson of the VSB , at opening of a new addition to the school (1962).
Teacher, Mr Nightingale, showing a model of the ear to two students: Gail McGreevy & Bev Mason (1960).
Home Economics (textiles) class (1960).
Social Studies class (1960).
Teacher and students working on a mosaic (1961).
Four students posed in front of the ‘Space Mural’ (1967).
A teacher helps a student in a Social Studies classroom (1984).
Two students exiting the school at the front entrance (1960).
Students working on model houses (1960).
Miss Wilson and students in her Home Economics class examine bottles of marmalade (1960).
Student slices meat at a White Spot restaurant for work experience (1974).
Students sell items at the school store (1978).
Students appear on ‘Reach for the Top’ TV show. Thompson students are left to right: John Schimm, David Gorski, Tim Chow, Laurie Mah.
Two girls wearing lab coats measure a liquid in the cooking lab. One of them is wearing a hair net (1960).
Two girls do laundry in home economics class. One student operates a wringer-type washing machine, the other, a dryer (1960).
A ‘work experience’ student uses a labelling machine to label food containers at a White Spot restaurant (1974).
David Thompson School Girls Hi-Y Club sponsors a convention in Vancouver (1959).