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	Alexander Mackenzie
		Alexander Mackenzie (January 28, 1822 - April 17, 1892) was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
		Mackenzie married Helen Neil[?] (1826-1852) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.
		Another Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish violinist, conductor, composer and head of the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1888 to 1924.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alexander_Mackenzie.html (246 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie, Explorer
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie, propelled by the fur trade and his own wanderlust, was the first person to traverse the North American continent north of Mexico.
		Montreal, the centre of the fur trade, enticed Mackenzie in 1779 to enter the industry that must have seemed an exciting occupation to a boy who was nearly a man. Only five years after joining the firm of Finlay, Gregory and Company he was sent to Detroit as a trader.
		Mackenzieâs leadership was tested when the men wanted to turn back, but he persuaded them to continue, with the help of a little rum.
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	Mackenzie and District Museum -- History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1793 Alexander Mackenzie the famous explorer camped near the present town of Mackenzie.
		Mackenzie is 185 km North West of Prince George and 963 km North of Vancouver.
		Mackenzie lies at the south end of Williston Lake, The largest man-made reservoir in North America.
	www.mackenziemuseum.ca /history.html (137 words)

	Alexander MacKenzie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander MacKenzie painted by Thomas Lawrence (c.1800), courtesy National Gallery of Canada.
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1764 - March 11, 1820) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer.
		Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Hebrides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Mackenzie_(explorer) (358 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie
		Alexander Mackenzie (January 28, 1822 - April 17, 1892) was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
		Mackenzie married Helen Neil (1826-1852) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.
		Another Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish violinist, conductor, composer and head of the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1888 to 1924.
	www.ukpedia.com /a/alexander-mackenzie.html (267 words)

	Alexander MacKenzie
		Alexander MacKenzie is a tall, upright, vigorous shrub introduced in 1985.
		However, REPLOQ test results showed that this rose can survive in zone 2b but cane dieback in zones 2b to5b, can be to snow or soil level depending upon the hardiness of the winter.
		Alexander MacKenzie was obtained from a cross between the grandiflora Queen Elizabeth and a hardy seedling descended from a cross between the shrubs Red Dawn and Suzanne.
	www.canadianrosesociety.org /hardyroses/amackenzie.html (429 words)

	Journey of Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Bella Coola Grizzly Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alexander Mackenzie, Explorer and Fur Trader was born in Scotland in 1764 and emigrated with his father to New York at the age of ten.
		Mackenzie was truly amazed with the boat handling techniques of the Rivermen as they effortlessly poled their way downriver through columns of water and the tallest trees Mackenzie had ever seen.
		Mackenzie's Rock, on the north shore of Dean Channel and at the mouth of Elcho harbour, is marked with a large cairn and preserved in Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park.
	www.grizzlytour.com /mackenzie.htm (2872 words)

	canoe-odyssey.com
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie was born in 1764, in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis off the West Coast of Scotland.
		Mackenzie died in 1820 and was buried in Avoch, near Inverness, Scotland.
		Mackenzie's description of the Western Canada river system was so precise that Napoleon, languishing in prison, gave orders to Bernadotte, his key Marshall, to lay out a strategic plan to retake New France.
	www.canoe-odyssey.com /mackenzie.php (455 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie
		When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General needed to call on someone to form a government as elections were unnecessary.
		There was no clear leader of the opposition and Mackenzie was the fourth person called upon, and the first to accept, the post of Prime Minister of Canada.
		Another Alexander Mackenzie (1847 - 1935) was a Scottish violinist, conductor, composer and head of the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1888 to 1924.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/alexander_mackenzie (361 words)

	Sir Alexander Mackenzie the Scottish Bulldog
		In 1764, Alexander Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, a windswept, rugged island in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland.
		Mackenzie was so heartbroken over ending up at the wrong ocean that he named his river ‘The River of Disappointment.’ The Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin renamed it the Mackenzie River.
		Mackenzie’s description of the Western Canada river system was so precise that Napoleon had set up a scheme during the War of 1812 to use Mackenzie’s book to invade Canada.
	www3.bc.sympatico.ca /st_simons/cr9904.htm (1110 words)

	Empire of the Bay: Alexander Mackenzie
		A fur trader and explorer, Mackenzie became convinced that Cook's River, in present-day Alaska, could provide a water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
		Mackenzie became the first European north of Mexico to reach the Pacific ocean on an overland route, beating, as well, the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who arrived at the coast in 1805.
		In 1802, Mackenzie was knighted by King George III, and recognized as leader of the first expedition to cross the North American continent from the Atlantic to Pacific north of Mexico.
	www.pbs.org /empireofthebay/profiles/mackenzie.html (325 words)

	THE PEACE RIVER AND SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mackenzie himself was modest about his writing saying, "he was not a candidate for literary fame." He wanted neither "exaggeration nor display; neither embellished narrative nor animated description".
		Alexander was the second son of Kenneth Mackenzie, (or MacKenzie) and brother to two younger sisters.
		Mackenzie ceased his constant journeys across the Atlantic and bought an estate called Avoch on Moray Firth, an estate which Mackenzie paid for to the trustees of Geddes dead father, evidently not being content to acquire wealth by marriage to an heiress.
	www.calverley.ca /Part%2002%20-%20Fur%20Trade/2-007.html (6604 words)

	The CLEARWATER RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
		Explorer Entryway: In addition to furs, the Methye Portage also carried a steady stream of explorers, adventurers and entrepreneurs.
		Among the notable figures that crossed the ridge were David Thompson, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir John Franklin and Sir George Simpson.
		Alexander Mackenzie's voyages to the Arctic and the Pacific and David Thompson's surveys of the west were all carried out in the course of North West Company business.
	greatcanadianrivers.com /rivers/clearriver/history-home.html (1046 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alexander Mackenzie's journal of his travels through (current) northern Canada was published in England in 1801 as Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans In the Years 1789 and 1793.
		There are significant differences between Mackenzie's names and the modern names of the lakes in the area upstream of Otter Rapids to Black Bear Island Lake.
		Mackenzie is here describing the transition from shield to plains topography which occurs in this area.
	www.carlton.paschools.pa.sk.ca /pa/Canoeing/alexander_mackenzie.htm (5624 words)

	Peter Pond Society
		Pond inspired Alexander Mackenzie to become the first white man to reach the Pacific Ocean overland across North America in 1793.
		It was Mackenzie's book on his overland voyage to the Pacific Ocean that caused President Thomas Jefferson to launch the more famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, which reached its objective in 1805.
		The scene is from “The Magnificent Adventures of Alexander Mackenzie,” by Philip Vail (Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, 1964) when Mackenzie first meets Pond: “Pond stalked into the hall, a pack of dogs at his heels.
	www.peterpondsociety.com (572 words)

	First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent: Current ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scottish-born Alexander Mackenzie's (1763-1830) journal of his travels across North America was published in 1801 as Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the Years 1789 and 1793.
		The author begins this engrossing account with a brief history of Alexander Mackenzie's early years in the Canadian fur trade, then he focuses on the explorer's navigation of what came to be called the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean in 1789, and his expedition by boat and overland to the Pacific Ocean in 1793.
		Mackenzie's journals describe the hardships, dangers, weather, food, and the indigenous population and their villages.
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	World Almanac for Kids
		Many of the explorers, under government auspices, sought a northwest passage by sea from Europe to Asia’s riches and thus regarded the Canadian landmass as an obstacle as well as a potentially useful discovery.
		It was opened to the fur trade through the efforts of the explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie and others and then, in the late 1850s, flooded by European and American prospectors in search of gold.
		Mackenzie King dropped Bennett’s New Deal package, which was eventually declared unconstitutional in 1937 by the British Privy Council, then the final court of appeal.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/canada2.html (8332 words)

	Great Canadian Explorers: Sir Alexander MacKenzie
		This book is about Mackenzie's search for a Northwest Passage, and the link from Canada to Russia, Japan and Cathay.
		Often forgotten in Canadian and American history, Mackenzie's life as told by this author is a re-examination of the importance of exploration, and of fur traders' contribution to discoveries.
		Mackenzie was knighted for his achievements, and he developed various commercial designs for Canadian trade to China, some of which involved American shipping and financial interests.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/multimedia/explorers/mackenzie.html (301 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mackenzie was born in Stornoway in the (A group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland) Hebrides.
		He was sent to replace (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Pond) Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company.
		Mackenzie died in 1820 of (Click link for more info and facts about Bright's disease) Bright's disease.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Al/Alexander_Mackenzie_(explorer).htm (223 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alexander-Mackenzie-(explorer)
		Sir Thomas Lawrence (April 13, 1769 - January 7, 1830), was an English painter was born at Bristol.
		He is buried in Avoch, on the Black Isle, north of Inverness.
		Alex MacKenzie from Canada by land, BC This photo was taken by John Harvey at the Alexander Mackenzie monument on the West coast of British Columbia on Wednesday, August 8th, 2001.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alexander-Mackenzie-%28explorer%29 (1489 words)

	Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company - Personalities
		They were very tired after such a difficult voyage, but Mackenzie was determined not to give up.
		The fur trade made Sir Alexander Mackenzie rich.
		On February 27, 1802 Alexander Mackenzie was knighted and became Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
	www.canadiana.org /hbc/person/mackenzie_e.html (227 words)

	From Canada, by Land
		The author made such cogent comparisons between the expeditions of Alexander Mackenzie and the Corps of Discovery that it is well worth reading again.
		Mackenzie at heart was a businessman, an important partner in a private fur-trading company based in Montreal.
		Mackenzie's journal was published in London eight years after his Pacific trip.
	www.lewis-clark.org /MACKENZIE/mack_large-1.htm (651 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie, explorer and fur trader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alexander Mackenzie explorer and fur trader, was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe, twelve years before Lewis and Clark.
		Using the explorer's own journal as a guide, author Robert Hing retraced Mackenzie's trail in the summer of 1990, alone, in a small seaplane.
		Tracking Mackenzie to the Sea is the lively account of that journey, a celebration of the first crossing of continental North America, and of the freedom of splashing down on the lakes and rivers of Canada's vast and sparsely populated interior.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/mackenzie.html (249 words)

	Sir Alexander Mackenzie
		Given (1788) supervision of the important Athabasca fur district, Mackenzie set out (1789) from his headquarters at Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca on the first of his two noted trips of exploration.
		Following the course of the Blackwater River, a western tributary of the Fraser, they reached and crossed the Coast Ranges to the Bella Coola River, which they descended, in a borrowed dugout, to its mouth in a tidal inlet of the Pacific.
		Mackenzie was elected in 1805 to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, but he soon returned (1808) to Scotland, where he lived the rest of his life.
	www.factmonster.com /cgi-bin/id/CE031968 (328 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alexander was a young ten-year-old boy when his mother died.
		Alexander and his family sailed to New York because they were poor in Scotland.
		Alexander used native Indians to help him with paddling, as they knew the rivers well He also used mapmaking instruments to help him with directions.
	projects.cbe.ab.ca /ict/2learn/jcreid/famousalbertans/htmlfiles/albertans/mackenzie.htm (293 words)

	Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I think Sir Alexander Mackenzie should have a stamp named after him because Mackenzie based one of his voyages on Peter Pond's prediction.
		Alexander Mackenzie was born in Scotland in the year 1764 and died in 1820.
		I also think Mackenzie should have a stamp because he was the first European to travel the full lenght of the river which later bore his name.
	www.spp.k12.nf.ca /explorer/sarahh.html (174 words)

	mackenzie
		Grep of noun mackenzie mackenzie mackenzie river sir alexander mackenzie Overview of noun mackenzie The noun mackenzie has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1.
		Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Mackenzie -- (Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North American by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)) 2.
		Mackenzie, Mackenzie River -- (a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea) Overview of noun mackenzie The noun mackenzie has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1.
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	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: A Brief History - Scots in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in the Outer Hebrides in 1755, explorer Alexander Mackenzie completed the first known transcontinental crossing of America north of Mexico.
		Another Scot, William Lyon Mackenzie, who led the revolt in Upper Canada against the Canadian government in 1858, became a symbol of Canadian radicalism.
		Another Scot, William McDougall was known as one of the fathers of the Confederation and Sir Richard McBride was the Premier of British Columbia from 1903-1915.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/scot18c.html (847 words)

	Journey of Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Bella Coola Grizzly Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mackenzie started heading downriver and as he traveled learned of hostile natives and impassable river conditions ahead.
		They are planning an attack now." Mackenzie and his voyageurs did not like the sound's of this.
		Mackenzie was only 29 years old when he and his men made the extraordinary overland journey to Bella Coola.
	www.bcgrizzlytours.com /mackenzie.htm (2872 words)

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