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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.
The Mackenzie River itself, the great waterway extending to the Arctic Ocean, was first put on European maps by Alexander Mackenzie in 1789, the Scottish trader who explored the river. [1] The watershed thus became a vital part of the North American fur trade , and before the advent of the airplane or road networks, the river was the only ...
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie travelled the river in the hope it would lead to the Pacific Ocean, but instead reached its mouth on the Arctic Ocean on 14 July 1789. There is a story, likely apocryphal, that he named it "Disappointment River", but eventually it was named after him. [ 54 ]
Alexander Mackenzie most commonly refers to: Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) (1764–1820), Scottish explorer and commercial partner of the North West Company;
He was followed in 1789 by Alexander Mackenzie, who traced what is now the Mackenzie River to open sea 500 miles (800 km) west of the mouth of the Coppermine. [ 2 ] In 1818, Barrow had sent his first expedition to seek the Northwest Passage.
Ellen MacKenzie: Ellen has never popped up during the six seasons of Outlander because she died while Jamie was just a wee bairn, which was many years before the events of the books and the series ...
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.
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