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SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE (c. 1755-1820)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:ALEXANDER See also:MACKENZIE (c. 1755-1820)  , See also:Canadian explorer, was probably a native of See also:Inverness . Emigrating to See also:North See also:America at an See also:early See also:age, he was for several years engaged in the See also:fur See also:trade at Fort Chippewyan, at the See also:head of See also:Lake See also:Athabasca, and it was here that his schemes of travel were formed . His first See also:journey, made in 1789, was from Fort Chippewyan along the See also:Great Slave Lake, and down the See also:river which now bears his name to the See also:Arctic Ocean; and his second, made in 1792 and 1793, from Fort Chippewyan across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific See also:coast near Cape Menzies . He wrote an See also:account of these journeys, Voyages on the River St See also:Lawrence and throug''a the See also:Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Ocean,; (See also:London, 18o1), which is of considerable See also:interest from the See also:information it contains about the native tribes . It is prefaced by an See also:historical dissertation on the Canadian fur trade . Amassing considerable See also:wealth, See also:Mackenzie was knighted in 1802, and later settled in See also:Scotland . He died at Mulnain, near See also:Dunkeld, on the 11th of See also:March 182o .

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