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	Mackenzie River
		The river's peak discharge occurs in June, but its flow is generally uniform because of the flat Barren Lands east of the river and the many large lakes in the system.
		The lakes and rivers of the Mackenzie and its tributaries are open from mid-June to the beginning of November in the northerly areas.
		Near the North Nahanni River the Mackenzie trends west-northwest through a rolling plain and deflects north past an escarpment of the MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS, which lie parallel to the river.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004954 (396 words)

	Paddler Magazine Online : Retracing Mackenzie
		Mackenzie may have grown suspicious as to whether he was heading in the right direction at Camsell Bend, some 250 miles into the Mackenzie River.
		Mackenzie had camped here and climbed to the top of a 1,500-foot mountain that resembles the shape of a bear, surrounded by three large red patches of rock.
		Mackenzie rolled his eyes at this prospect, but he did expect some sort of danger in the form of whitewater in the narrow canyons.
	www.paddlermagazine.com /issues/2000_2/article_2.shtml (2877 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie - Mapping the Northwest - 18th Century - Pathfinders and Passageways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mackenzie, located by Gregory, MacLeod in just this region, found himself in the right place at the right time, with the Montreal merchants ready to invest in finding a commercial route to the sea -- which was now known to be in the west, thanks to Captain James Cook.
		Mackenzie was to ascertain whether the river (later named after him) flowing out of Great Slave Lake actually did go to Cook Inlet in Alaska, as Pond believed it did.
		Mackenzie then went back up the Fraser to the West Road River, crossed the valley of the same name, reached the Mackenzie Pass at 6 000 feet of altitude and entered the deep gorge of the Bella Coola.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/h24-1630-e.html (1198 words)

	Mackenzie River, Canada
		With a length of 4250 km (2641 mi.), the Mackenzie is the second largest river in North America, one of the longest in the world (from the mouth to the source of the Finlay River, its longest tributary) and has a catchment area of 1.8 million sq.
		The main sources of the Mackenzie are the Peace River and the Athabasca which merge to form the Slave River.
		The river was already an important artery for the canoes of the fur trade in the 18th c.
	www.planetware.com /canada/mackenzie-river-cdn-nt-ntm.htm (224 words)

	BMMDA Background-Mackenzie Delta
		This is due to the warming of the landscape caused by the Mackenzie River.
		The main driving force is the Mackenzie River that is responsible for introducing large amounts of water, energy and sediment to the delta.
		Despite the hungry hordes of insects, the Mackenzie Delta is a haven for wildlife.
	www.bmmda.nt.ca /mackenzie_delta.htm (2983 words)

	The MACKENZIE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
		While smaller rivers splash, foam and twist through the rugged land, Canada's longest river flows patiently, steadily, solemnly north.
		Beginning at the headwaters of the Peace and Athabasca, gathering and taming the spirited waters of the Slave, the Liard, the Nahanni and the Arctic Red, and ending at the Arctic Ocean, the Mackenzie river system totals almost 4,200 kilometres.
		Even in the 21st century, as its inhabitants - Dene, Métis, Inuvialuit and non-aboriginal alike -contemplate their river's future, the Mackenzie remains one of the most undeveloped, sparsely populated, and endlessly intriguing river valleys in the nation.
	www.greatcanadianrivers.com /rivers/mack/mack-home.html (273 words)

	CHRS - Arctic Red River - Fact Sheet
		The Peel River Preserve, which occupies the northwest corner of the river’s watershed, was established in 1921 as an exclusive hunting area for the Gwich’in.
		In the Mackenzie Mountains, the U-shaped river valley is a reminder of the continental and alpine glaciers that once enveloped the area.
		Aircraft with pontoons have a myriad of lakes to choose from near the river throughout the Mackenzie Lowlands and landings on the river itself are possible on the straighter and deeper sections of the river.
	www.chrs.ca /Rivers/ArcticRed/ArcticRed-F_e.htm (2209 words)

	Mackenzie River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the longest river in Canada at 1,738 km and, together with its headstreams the Peace and the Finlay, the second longest river in North America at 4,241 km in length; only the Mississippi-Missouri is longer.
		The Mackenzie and its tributaries drain 1,805,200 square kilometers.
		The divide between the Mackenzie basin and the basin of the Yukon River to the west forms the central portion of the boundary between Northwest Territories and the Yukon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mackenzie_River (339 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mackenzie MACKENZIE [Mackenzie] river, c.1,120 mi (1,800 km) long, issuing from Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Arctic Ocean through a great delta.
		MacKenzie, Sir Compton MACKENZIE, SIR COMPTON [MacKenzie, Sir Compton] 1883-1972, English author, b.
		Mackenzie Financial Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter ended September 30, 2000, ------------------------ Financial Report for the second quarter ended September 30, 2000 ------------------------.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/07813.html (626 words)

	Sled Dog Central: Mackenzie River Huskies - History
		The "Mackenzie River Husky" is a catch all name, that can describe vastly different dogs depending on who is using that name.
		The catchy name "Mackenzie River Husky" was coined from newcomers seeing the freight huskies and not being able to differentiate the different villages while passing through an area.
		Arctic Red dogs, Porcupine River dogs, Hay River dogs, etc. The name really took hold in the 1960’s, from which the distortions grew, especially as the freight husky began to disappear.
	www.sleddogcentral.com /mackenzies2.htm (1335 words)

	Rivers of Canada: Mackenzie River - Going down north (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because the river channel is shallow, freight is carried on flat-bottom barges pushed, not pulled, by shallow-draft tugboats.
		Despite Mackenzie's mistake and disappointment, the river was renamed in his honour by Canada's European colonizers.
		In the 1970s, the river was suddenly busy with long barge trains carrying drill pipe to the big international energy companies seeking oil and gas lying under the Arctic Ocean and under the bed of the Mackenzie River itself.
	rcgs.org /ccge/english/Resources/rivers/tr_rivers_mackenzieRiver.asp (996 words)

	Mackenzie — FactMonster.com
		Mackenzie, river, c.1,120 mi (1,800 km) long, issuing from Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Arctic Ocean through a great delta.
		A plan to construct the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline from the Arctic Ocean to Alberta, which would have been the greatest construction project ever undertaken, was shelved in 1977 after a federal royal commission concluded that, though feasible, the project involved serious legal, political, and environmental problems.
		Peter Pond was possibly the first European to enter (1777) the Mackenzie drainage area, but Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the 19th-century Canadian explorer, was the first to descend (1789) the river to the Arctic Ocean.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0830974.html (448 words)

	Mackenzie River
		River in the Northwest Territories, northwestern Canada; about 1,705 km/1,060 mi long (from the Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea).
		The Mackenzie River is navigable from June to October, when it eventually freezes over.
		The river was named after the British explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who first saw it in 1789.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0010609.html (330 words)

	Empire of the Bay: Alexander Mackenzie
		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.
		While crossing the Peace River watershed to the Fraser, they suggested to proceed overland, instead of continuing on the hazardous Fraser River.
		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)

	Alexander Mackenzie Biography \| scit_041_package.xml
		Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the Scottish island of Lewis to a prominent military family.
		It was from Ft. Chipewyan that Mackenzie based his later expeditions down the Mackenzie River and to the Pacific coast.
		Mackenzie stressed the advantage of using members of the local tribes and Inuit as guides for their knowledge of the area.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alexander-mackenzie-scit-041 (753 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail
		Alexander Mackenzie, who was born in Scotland in 1764, worked in the fur trade business for the North West Company, and by the year 1779 he was in command of the Athabasca country.
		Mackenzie made Fort Chipewyan on the shores of Lake Athabasca the base for exploring a water route to the Pacific.
		The Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail was designated as a heritage trail under the Heritage Conservation Act and as a forest recreation trail under the Forest Act, in 1987.
	www.bcadventure.com /adventure/explore/cariboo/trails/almack.htm (1337 words)

	WWF - Mackenzie River Valley and Delta, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is the longest river in Canada and the Delta the largest in Canada with the second largest wetland area in the country.
		The river transports over half of the freshwater flowing through the north of Canada and carries the most sediment in the circumpolar north to the Arctic Ocean.
		The Mackenzie Delta and Canadian Beaufort Seas are thought to hold significantly greater reserves, with an estimated 5.8 billion barrels of oil and 65 tcf of gas.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/arctic/what_we_do/oil_gas/mackenzie_oil_gas/index.cfm (528 words)

	The Mackenzie River
		Mackenzie is the world's ninth-longest river at 2,635 miles.
		river is navigable for about five months of the year, freezing over in October and breaking up again in May. Creative Canadians use the river as an ice road during the extreme winter.
		Rivers commonly included in the Mackenzie system are Arctic Red, Athabasca, Liard, Peace, Slave, and south Nahanni.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/geography/mackenzieriver.htm (107 words)

	CHRS - South Nahanni River - Fact Sheet
		Although the overall drop in elevation along the river is considerable, 90 metres of it are accounted for by the perpendicular drop at Virginia Falls.
		River Touring: Wild river touring by canoe, kayak or raft is by far the most important recreational activity in Nahanni, Canada’s premier wild river national park.
		The nearest highway is the 392 kilometre Liard between Fort Simpson on the MacKenzie River and Fort Nelson, B.C., which passes within 64 kilometres of the park reserve.
	www.chrs.ca /Rivers/SouthNahanni/SouthNahanni-F_e.htm (1717 words)

	Rivers of Canada: Mackenzie River - Wrong turn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Alexander Mackenzie was a fur trader for the North West Company who became one of Canada's most famous explorers.
		Even though Mackenzie had navigated the Deh Cho in error, and the river had been populated by the Dene First Nation for thousands of years before his voyage, the river is officially named for the Scottish fur trader.
		He followed the Peace River westward to the continental divide and reached the headwaters of the Fraser River which flows into the Pacific at present-day Vancouver.
	www.ccge.org /ccge/english/Resources/rivers/tr_rivers_MRwrongTurn.asp (290 words)

	The application of CCME Water Quality Index in the Mackenzie River Basin: A summary
		The CCME WQI is a candidate indicator for the 2003 (first-ever) Mackenzie River Basin Board’s State of Aquatic Ecosystem Report.
		The 4241 km long Mackenzie River is the second largest river in the North America, draining into the Arctic Ocean. The Mackenzie-Great Bear sub-basin lies north of 60° latitude and has a limited number of vegetation species due to its extremely cold climate.
		The CCME WQIs analysis reflected that the water quality of the Mackenzie River basin had deteriorated over the 1990s due to an increase in the level of the trace metals.
	www.eman-rese.ca /eman/reports/meetings/mackenzie_river_summary.html (1211 words)

	GEO_PLATE_D-10.HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mackenzie River is the longest river in Canada, the second longest in North America, and one of the ten longest rivers in the world.
		Myriads of lakes and additional river channels are spread over the entire Mackenzie floodplain (up to 60 km wide) upstream for at least 150 km, as seen in a mid-fall (October 23, 1973) Landsat image (Figure D-10.2).
		Ice jams and the late thaw of the delta relative to the river thaw cause extreme localized high-water levels in the distributaries; overbank crevassing and formation of splays are common features extending into the freshwater lakes (Figure D-10.3).
	disc.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_5/GEO_PLATE_D-10.HTML (628 words)

	Mackenzie River (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is the longest river in Canada and, together with its headstreams, the Peace River and the Finlay River, the second longest river in North America at 4241 km in length.
		The Mackenzie was named after Alexander Mackenzie who travelled the river while trying to reach the Pacific Ocean.
		The divide between the Mackenzie basin and the basin of the Yukon River to the west forms the boundary between Northwest Territories and Yukon.
	mackenzie-river.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (375 words)

	The Mackenzie Institute
		Founded in 1986 in Toronto, the Mackenzie Institute is an independent non-profit organization concerned with issues related to political instability and organized violence.
		The Institute is named for the voyageur Alexander Mackenzie, the first European (and likely the first man) to reach the Pacific Ocean from Upper Canada, and the first to trace the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean.
		Mackenzie had the courage to explore routes that everyone knew existed, but feared to try.
	www.mackenzieinstitute.com (181 words)

	The Mackenzie river is more of a highway through life than it is a river
		It is the longest river in Canada and has no dams, no roads to speak of and almost no population.
		Having lived on the Finlay river in BC which is more or less isolated I expected more camps or cabins along the Mackenzie.
		The rapids of the Ramparts are the beginning of a seven mile stretch of river most often pictured in Mackenzie river journals.
	www.stillmevoyage.com /mackenzie.html (4483 words)

	The Mackenzie River Dining Room Suite - Pickle Ridge - www.pickleridge.com
		Averaging four to six miles wide, the mighty Mackenzie River is Canada's largest and longest river.
		While working for the Northwest Company, the Hudson's Bay Company's chief rival, the great Canadian explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie -using a canoe- was the first European to navigate the river to the Arctic Ocean in 1789.
		Two of the ten largest lakes in the world drain into the Mackenzie River: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake.
	www.pickleridge.com /pages/mackenzieriver.htm (127 words)

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