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Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a British fur trader born in 1764. In 1774 he went to New York where he stayed until 1778. He was sent to Montreal in 1779 where he went to the service of a firm of fur traders, Gregory McLeod and Co. He stayed to work as a clerk and trader. He later became a partner until the absorption of the firm by the North West Company post of Fort Chippewan, Alberta. It was from this post that he set out on his voyage to Great Slave Lake and down the river which bears his name. He reached the Arctic Ocean on July,16 1789. Within three months of setting out, he was back at Fort Chippewan having explored the Mackenzie, one of the largest rivers of North America. In 1793 Mackenzie
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie, propelled by the fur trade and his own wanderlust, was the first person to traverse the North American continent north of Mexico. His 6400 km trek to the Pacific on behalf of the North West Company revealed the promise of the Canadian Northwest and much of the geography of western North America. All who followed, including Lewis and Clark 12 years later, benefited from his endeavors, but Canada benefited most of all.
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Alexander Mackenzie 1822-92, Canadian political leader, b. Scotland. Emigrating (1842) to Canada, he worked first as a stonemason in Kingston, Ont., and then as a builder and contractor in Sarnia. In Lambton he became editor (1852) of a Liberal newspaper. Elected (1861) to the Canadian Legislative Assembly, Mackenzie supported the confederation movement and the Liberal leader, George Brown . A member of the first dominion House of Commons (1867), Mackenzie headed the Liberal opposition to Sir John A. Macdonald 's government; upon its fall (1873) as a result of the Pacific scandal he became the first Liberal prime minister of the dominion. In 1878, Macdonald came back into power, and Mackenzie, who remained in Parliament until his death, led the Liberal opposition until 1880. During his ministry the courts and provincial governments were strengthened, trade expanded, and immigration, especially to the western provinces, was encouraged.
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On Jan. 28, 1822, Alexander Mackenzie was born near Dunkeld. His parents were poor, and young Mackenzie left school to apprentice himself to a stone mason. At the age of 20 Mackenzie emigrated to Canada, where he soon found work in his trade at Kingston, Upper Canada. Prospering, Mackenzie moved to Sarnia, further west, as builder and contractor. He was ... a concerned citizen, and in 1852 he became the editor of the Lambton Shield, a tiny newspaper that nonetheless served to give him access to the world of politics. In 1861 he ran successfully for the Assembly as a Reformer, and in 1867 he was elected to the first Parliament of Canada, where he became the leader of the opposition to the government of Sir John Alexander Macdonald.
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie was born in 1764, in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis off the West Coast of Scotland. He traveled to New York with his father and then went to school in Montreal. In 1779, he entered a company that eventually joined with other Montreal firms involved in the fur trade, forming the North West Company. Mackenzie became a determined young fur trader who ultimately found his way overland across Canada, to the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie was born in 1764 in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. In 1771, his family emigrated to New York, but most of Alexander's schooling was in Montreal in Canada. In 1779, he entered the service of Gregory MacLeod and Company, fur traders in Montreal. The company was later to merge with other companies in the area to become the North West Company.
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