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Alexander Mackenzie: North America
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Alexander Mackenzie was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe in 1793 -- twelve years before Lewis and Clark. Mackenzie’s journal of his explorations appeared in 1801.
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Roderic Mackenzie was a Highlander who, like his cousin Alexander Mackenzie, served his fur trade apprenticeship with Gregory, McLeod & Company. Although he never entered B.C. territory, but his son Ferdinand McKenzie, having studied medicine in Great Britain, became a trusted but unofficial physician to the people of New Caledonia upon his arrival in 1847, having joined the Hudson's Bay Company as an apprentice clerk in 1845. A lifelong affinity with Alexander Mackenzie made Roderic Mackenzie an important historical figure beyond his lengthy tenure with the Northwest Company as a director. Roderic Mackenzie ... collected and posthumously published a copy of Simon Fraser's journal of his voyage from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast in 1808.
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The greatest contribution that Alexander made to Alberta was to discover new land in northern Alberta like the Mackenzie River. He was ... a mapmaker and his discoveries helped modern day geologists who depend on past records.
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Mackenzie lies at the southern end of Williston Lake, the largest man-made reservoir in North America. The lake was formed as a result of the W.A.C. Bennet Dam being built on the Peace River, and stretches over 200 kilometres north from Mackenzie.
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Alexander was a bright child, playing and frollicking with the geese in bliss, out of the reach of the evil King Jonathan. He learned the English language from old cassettes, and visited America at the age of 15 while migrating south for the winter.
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Other economic policies pursued by the Mackenzie administration were ... constrained by circumstances. In the case of reciprocity, the Mackenzie government felt that the previous administration had not sufficiently pursued improved trade relations with the United States. The Liberals intended to piggyback the trade issue on the outstanding issue of American payment for access to Canada’s and Newfoundland’s inshore fisheries, as specified in the Treaty of Washington [see SirJohn A.Macdonald; Peter M
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