{"id":3195,"count":10,"description":"Thompson is a city in northern Manitoba. As the \"Hub of the North\" it serves as the regional trade and service centre of northern Manitoba. Thompson is located 830\u00a0km (520\u00a0mi) north of the Canada \u2013 United States border, 739\u00a0km (459\u00a0mi) north of the provincial capital of Winnipeg, and is 396\u00a0km (246\u00a0mi) northeast of Flin Flon. It has a population of 13,256 residents, which also serves as a trade centre for an additional 36,000 - 65,000 Manitobans. As such, it has all of the services and amenities that would be expected in a much larger, urban centre.\nThe Thompson area was first inhabited by nomadic Paleo-Indian hunters 6000 B.C. Europeans conducted a federal geological survey in Thompson in 1896.\nThe modern history of Thompson began in 1956 when on February 4, a major ore body was discovered by use of an airborne electromagnetometer following ten years of mining exploration in the region. The community was founded in 1957 following an agreement with the Government of Manitoba and Inco...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/thompson\/","name":"Thompson","slug":"thompson","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}