Canada Again
Thompson had remarried in 1840. His second wife, Elizabeth, died in 1852 and in 1853, he married Mary Ann Groves and returned to Canada.
He was appointed architect for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada and the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, designing the masonry for the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, and the terminus at Portland, Maine. The latter opened in 1855 and was claimed to be the largest station in America at that time.
He and his wife returned to London in 1859 and in 1866 he retired to Hastings, moving finally to Bredfield, where he died on 23 April 1895.
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