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	Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Encyclopedia.com
		Mackenzie, Sir Alexander 1764?-1820, Canadian fur trader and explorer, b.
		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.
		Alexander Cozen's 'New Method': the blot and general nature.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-MackenzSrA.html (589 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.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alexander_Mackenzie.html (246 words)

	Journey of Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Bella Coola Grizzly Tours - Mackenzie Heritage Trail, BC
		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.
		In 1802 Mackenzie was knighted Sir Alexander Mackenzie by King George 111, and recognized as leader of the first european expedition to cross the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific north of Mexico.
		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.bcgrizzlytours.com /mackenzie.htm (2898 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Mackenzie had acquired shares in it as early as 1800, and by 1802 it was sometimes known as Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Company.
		Mackenzie had long been a close friend of McTavish’s nephew and successor, William McGillivray*; for several years in Montreal, when both were bachelors, they shared quarters, and their convivial life was the talk of the town.
		Mackenzie was hoping to exert pressure to secure the use of the Hudson Bay supply route for the Montreal traders; Selkirk was interested in a land grant in the Red River country on which to found a colony.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36643 (5378 words)

	Alberta: How the West was Young - Fur Trade and Mission History - Alexander Mackenzie
		Alexander Mackenzie was born at Stornoway, Scotland, in 1764, to parents Kenneth and Isabella.
		Alexander was schooled in Montreal for a brief period, before being lured away to a life in the fur trade, joining Gregory, Macleod and Company.
		Alexander Mackenzie subsequently left the Northwest in 1794, spending the remainder of his life engaged in various activities, none too-far removed from the fur trade.
	www.abheritage.ca /alberta/fur_trade/bio_alexander_mackenzie.html (612 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)
		Mackenzie was born in Stornoway in the Hebrides.
		In 1779 he obtained a job with the North West Company, on whose behalf he travelled to Lake Athabasca[?] and founded Fort Chipewayan[?] in 1787.
		He discovered the Mackenzie River in 1789, following it to its source in hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/si/Sir_Alexander_Mackenzie.html (194 words)

	Alexander Mackenzie: Scottish Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		His father, Alexander Mackenzie (1819-57), was the principal violinist and leader of the band at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh, and was keen for his eldest son to follow in his footsteps.
		Mackenzie notes that Joachim was in the process of going through a divorce which may have pre-occupied him, but the violinist procrastinated a remarkably long time before delivering his decision.
		Mackenzie’s uncomplicated structure gives the movement a conciseness and lack of discursiveness that may have appealed more directly to the extrovert Sarasate than to the cerebral Joachim, possibly explaining the latter’s lack of affinity with the work.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /mackenzie (2613 words)

	Alexander MacKenzie Summary
		Alexander Mackenzie began working in the offices of the Northwest Company at the age of 16 in the last days of the American war for independence.
		Mackenzie was able to get his men to continue, and they canoed past abandoned Inuit settlements and whale carcasses along the river until they reached an island from which they could see nothing but ice-covered water for 6 miles (9.65 km).
		MacKenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
	www.bookrags.com /Alexander_MacKenzie (2593 words)

	BC Parks - Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park, Chilcotin, British Columbia
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park is a small coastal park located near Elcho Harbour on Dean Channel, approximately 65 km northwest of Bella Coola on the central coast of British Columbia.
		Mackenzie was the first European to cross the Rocky Mountains and view the western seas from the shores of northwestern North America, preceding the more widely known Lewis and Clark expedition by 12 years.
		Mackenzie and his party trekked overland and by canoe from Lake Athabaska in 1793 on behalf of the North West Company in search of a trade route to the Pacific.
	lillooet.com /ParksAndTrails/Parks/details/?ID=543 (1457 words)

	Significant Scots - Alexander MacKenzie
		Mackenzie’s claim that he traveled on a path that was only “eight hundred and seventeen paces in length over a ridge of 3000 ft. elevation” and his report that the mountains to the south were of even lower elevation, convinced Jefferson of the feasibility of an American expedition across the continent.
		MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER – In the list of those adventurers who have explored the wild recesses of North America, and acted as the pioneers of Anglo-Saxon civilization, the name of Sir Alexander Mackenzie occupies a place inferior to none.
		From this period we so completely lose sight of Sir Alexander, that we know neither his after history, nor the period of his death; but from a biographical volume of living authors, published in 1816, we ascertain that he was still alive at that date.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/other/alexander_mackenzie.htm (897 words)

	Sir Alexander Mackenzie the Scottish Bulldog
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie ranks as one of the most remarkable persons of North American wilderness history and, indeed, as one of the greatest travelers of all time.
		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.
	www3.telus.net /st_simons/cr9904.htm (1110 words)

	Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (Explorer)
		Mackenzie became a partner in the North West Company when it was formed.
		Neither of Mackenzie's discoveries were much use to the fur trade, but they made him a highly respected figure in the Northwest.
		Mackenzie was a great celebrity; in England his explorations won him a knighthood.
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	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)

	Sir Alexander Mackenzie the Scottish Bulldog
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie ranks as one of the most remarkable persons of North American wilderness history and, indeed, as one of the greatest travelers of all time.
		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.
	www3.bc.sympatico.ca /st_simons/cr9904.htm (1110 words)

	Empire of the Bay: Alexander Mackenzie
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scot who grew to become a Canadian hero.
		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)

	Mackenzie
		Alexander Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, in 1764, reputedly in Luskentyre House, shown here.
		Alexander moved to a community in the Mohawk valley, in upper New York State, on the lands of Sir William Johnson who kept open house in Johnson Hall.
		Alexander spent a year at school in Montreal, and in 1779 was apprenticed to the Montreal fur trading company of Finlay, Gregory and Co.
	www.avoch.org /html/mackenzie.html (1082 words)

	John Amatt's Global Adventures - Alexander Mackenzie Expedition Concept & Route Map
		Alexander Mackenzie was born In 1764 in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis of the west coast of Scotland.
		Alexander Mackenzie left the newly built Fort Chipewyan and embarked in a birch bark canoe with four French-Canadian voyageurs.
		Mackenzie was the first man to cross the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean North of Mexico, a feat he achieved some 13 years before the larger government supported expedition of Lewis and Clark in the United States.
	www.adventureattitude.com /mackenz.htm (1130 words)

	Sir Alexander MacKenzie on the Myth of Cailean FitzGerald
		For two centuries after the reigns of the Alexanders, the district of Kintail formed part of the lordship of the Isles, and was held by the Earls of Ross.
		He was naturally unwilling to offend the susceptibilities of the Mackenzie chiefs, all of whom had hitherto claimed Colin Fitzgerald as their progenitor, but he was forced to admit the inconclusive character of the disputed charter, and that no such charter was granted to Colin Fitzgerald by Alexander III.
		Sir William says:- "In the middle of the seventeenth century, when Lord Cromartie wrote his history, the means of ascertaining, by the names of witnesses and other ways, the true granter of a charter and the date were not so accessible as at present.
	members.aol.com /desmondearls/mackenzie.htm (4363 words)

	Mackenzie
		Sir Alexander went to Canada in 1779 and became an employee of the North West Company, a rival of the more famous Hudson's Bay Company.
		During his time at Avoch he was responsible for the building of a new harbour, something the fishing population badly needed as they had no protection for their boats due to the flatness of the shore.
		Sir Alexander died at Dunkeld in 1820 while on his way to Edinburgh for a visit with his young family.
	www.blackisle.org /mackenzie.htm (216 words)

	Ministry of Environment - Sir Alexander Mackenzie
		Alexander Mackenzie was the first white man to view the western seas from the shores of northwestern North America, preceding the more widely known Lewis and Clark expedition by more than 12 years.
		Mackenzie and his party trekked overland from the Fraser River, across the Interior Plateau, through the Rainbow Mountains and down Burnt Bridge Creek.
		Hikers attempting the Alexander Mackenzie Heritage (Grease) Trail will complete their journey by travelling by boat to the park.
	www.env.gov.bc.ca /bcparks/explore/parkpgs/sir_alex/nat_cul.html (437 words)

	Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Encyclopedia.com
		Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (1764?–1820) Canadian fur trader and explorer, b.
		Mackenzie moved to Montréal in 1778, and became a partner (1787) in the fur-trading North West Company.
		On his second expedition (1793), Mackenzie became the first man to cross the American continent n of Mexico.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-MackenzieSirAlexander.html (359 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 Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_Alexander_Mackenzie (511 words)

	Explorers of Canada, Part XXV: Sir Alexander Mackenzie
		Alexander Mackenzie may bring up two ideas when said to Canadian historians.
		This second Alexander Mackenzie (although first in terms of historical chronology) was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in the year 1764.
		Mackenzie, realising he wasn't quite good enough for such an operation, gave up his dream of finding the Northwest Passage just yet and eventually returned to England for more cources in astronomy and cartography.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/91811 (432 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)

	Tweedsmuir Provincial Park
		MacKenzie was the first white man to view the western seas from the shores of northwest America, preceding the more widely known Lewis and Clark expedition by more than 12 years.
		MacKenzie's rock, on the north shore of Dean Channel, is marked with a cairn and preserved in Sir Alexander MacKenzie Provincial Park.
		Thousands of years before MacKenzie came to the area it was the home of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin Indians who depended on the abundance of salmon in the rivers for their livelihood.
	www.bcadventure.com /adventure/explore/cariboo/bella/tweeds.htm (1291 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)

	Famous Scots - Sir Alexander Mackenzie
		Alexander Mackenzie was born in Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides
		It was later to be called the Mackenzie River
		Three years later he began a voyage on the Peace River but, when it became impassable, the rest of the journey had to be completed overland on foot through the Rocky Mountains.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfammackenzie.htm (241 words)

	Sir Alexander Mackenzie , Bella Coola BC, Canada
		Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park is a small coastal park near Elcho Harbour on Dean Channel.
		The park is located at the westernmost point in the journey of Alexander Mackenzie where, in reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease, he wrote on a rock: "Alex Mackenzie from Canada by land 22nd July 1793".
		The rock, near the water's edge, still bears his words, which were permanently inscribed in the rock later by surveyors.
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