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Sir Alexander Mackenzie (c. 1764 – 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America north of Mexico by a European in 1793. The Mackenzie River and Mount Sir Alexander are named after him.
By only a few weeks MacKenzie missed meeting James Johnstone, one of Captain George Vancouver's men, who also visited North Bentinck Arm that year. Inscription at the end of the Alexander Mackenzie's Canada crossing located at 52°22′43″N 127°28′14″W / 52.37861°N 127.47056°W / 52.37861; -127.47056 ( Mackenzie's
Intrepid Scottish explorer in Canada Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the first European to explore the great Canadian river now known as the Mackenzie River, crossing North America twice, to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and Pacific Ocean in 1793, retired to Avoch in 1812 where he died in 1820 and was buried in the old Avoch Parish churchyard.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, 1st Baronet (1663–1744) [1] He participated in the Darien expedition, and settled in Jamaica where he owned the Farenough estate. [2] Sir George Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet (1711-c. 1780) [1] Or McKenzie; he apparently didn't use the title. [3] Sir George Udney Mackenzie, 3rd Baronet (1747–1815) [1]
The Brahan Seer, known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar ("Dark Kenneth"), and Kenneth Mackenzie, was, according to legend, a predictor of the future who lived in the 17th century. The Brahan Seer is regarded by some to be the creation of the folklorist Alexander MacKenzie (1838-1898) whose accounts occur well after some of the ...
Alexander Mackenzie most commonly refers to: . Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) (1764–1820), Scottish explorer and commercial partner of the North West Company Alexander Mackenzie (politician) (1822–1892), second prime minister of Canada
Inscription at the end of the Alexander Mackenzie's Canada crossing located at . The Alexander MacKenzie Heritage Trail (also Nuxalk-Carrier Route, [1] Blackwater Trail, or simply The Grease Trail) is a 420 km (260 mi) long historical overland route between Quesnel and Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada (53.269N,123.149W to 52.968N, 125.704W) Of the many grease trails connecting the Coast ...
English: Photograph of Alexander Mackenzie's burial place in the village of Avoch, Ross Shire. Included is a replica of the stone he carved at Bella Coola in Canada. Included is a replica of the stone he carved at Bella Coola in Canada.