[2] Thompson worked at Eaton's and Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Montreal.
[2] Because of her father's decline in health, she came back to Winnipeg in 1980 and bought the family's business Birt Saddlery.
[2] While running Birt Saddlery, she worked hard to promote women in business and became involved in Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce.
[2] She choose not to seek a third term, but in 1999 she became Canada's Consul General in Minneapolis, United States - the first woman to have this position in its thirty years of existence.
[6] The City of Winnipeg Archives has the Susan Thompson Fonds including of textual records, photograph albums, framed memorabilia, and artifacts.