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| | Alexander Mackenzie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mackenzie appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada: | | | Mackenzie formed a government and then asked the Governor General to call an election for January 1874. | | | She had three children, and died after being married to Mackenzie for seven years. |
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Dorion, Mackenzie’s first minister of justice, was ideal for the position, but his long service in law and politics and his wish for a more predictable life led Mackenzie to appoint him to the chief justiceship of Quebec in 1874. | | | Mackenzie properly claimed that the electorate of the province was fully able to judge the case and that it was a matter of provincial concern. | | | Mackenzie’s motion, on which the Sandfield government was defeated, accused it of being a corrupt coalition government intent on making patronage expenditures unregulated by parliamentary votes: a “deliberately inaugurated. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Mackenzie was first elected as a Reform member to the Provincial Assembly in 1861. | | | Mackenzie became leader of the Liberal (formerly Reform) party in 1873. | | | Under Mackenzie, the Liberal government established the Supreme Court of Canada, reformed the electoral system and introduced the secret ballot, as well as completing the Intercolonial Railway and starting the Pacific line. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie - Uncyclopedia |
| | Descended from Alexander the Great by means of his stepmother, he is best known for defeating George Washington at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and uniting West Canada and East Canada together. | | | But tragedy struck when President James Garfield, the cross-dressing President of the United States of America invaded Canada with a single platoon of riflemen on May 30, 1881. | | | He became a beloved leader passing many laws such as the 1864 Proclamation of Appreciation for Canadian Geese, the 1869 Law Permitting Man-Goose Marriage, and the 1873 Law Permitting Man-Goose-Moose-Mouse Marriage. |
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Pond was both an accomplished trader and a born explorer, and Mackenzie was anxious to learn all he could from him. | | | By 1784, when he had been five years in the Montreal office, Mackenzie was anxious to try his hand at trading. | | | On 16 June 1804 he was elected to represent the county of Huntingdon in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. |
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| | Tartans.com :: View topic - SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE |
| | Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820) was born in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis. | | | They are from Mackenzie's marriage to his "country wife" with whom he had one daughter. | | | He returned to Scotland, married the heiress to the Avoch Estate on the Black Isle and stayed there until his death in 1820. |
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| | Significant Scots - Alexander MacKenzie |
| | Thomas Jefferson was aware of Mackenzie’s success at least as early as 1797, although he did not read the detailed account of the voyage until the summer of 1802. | | | After being knighted for his achievements in exploration, Mackenzie acted as a statesman in urging Britain to assert control over the Pacific Northwest. | | | I received, however, the reward of my labours, for they were crowned with success." |
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| | Scots in Canada |
| | Another Scot, William McDougall was known as one of the fathers of the Confederation and Sir Richard McBride was the Premier of British Columbia from 1903-1915. | | | The first of these was Sir William ALexander, Viscount Canada and Earl of Stirling, appointed hereditary Lieutenant of New Scotland in 1621. | | | His rebellion dramatized the need to reform the country's outmoded constitution and led to the 1841 Confederation of Canadian provinces. |
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| | Alexander Campbell Mackenzie - Classical music composer |
| | Find more recordings for Alexander Campbell Mackenzie at Amazon.com | | | Find more books about Alexander Campbell Mackenzie at Amazon.com | | | Find more scores by Alexander Campbell Mackenzie at SheetMusicPlus.com |
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| | The Right Honourable Alexander Mackenzie |
| | "I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin." Alexander Mackenzie, 1875. | | | Created the Office of the Auditor General, 1878 | | | Recession in mid-1870's, blamed on the Liberals, caused Mackenzie to lose the 1878 election. |
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| | Amazon.com: First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent: ... |
| | Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar sea in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827: Including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Franklin on page 289 | | | CAPs: Pacific Ocean, Hudson's Bay Company, Great Slave Lake, Alexander Mackenzie, North America (more) | | | Scottish-born Alexander Mackenzie's (1763-1830) journal of his travels across North America was published in 1801 as Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the Years 1789 and 1793. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie: Scottish Composer |
| | Mackenzie notes that Joachim was in the process of going through a divorce which may have pre-occupied him, but the violinist procrastinated a remarkably long time before delivering his decision. | | | His father, Alexander Mackenzie (1819-57), was the principal violinist and leader of the band at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh, and was keen for his eldest son to follow in his footsteps. | | | Quite probably Mackenzie had depended on his friendship with Joachim to secure the performance of the Violin Concerto at Birmingham. |
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| | Canadian Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com |
| | On a second expedition, from 1825 to 1827, Franklin explored the North American coast from the mouth of the Mackenzie River, in northwestern Canada, westward to Point Beechey (Alaska, USA). | | | In 1845, Franklin sailed from England with an expedition of 128 men to Canada in search of Northwest Passage. | | | In 1819 to 1822, Franklin surveyed part of the northwestern Canadian coast east of the Coppermine River. |
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| | Mackenzie, Sir Alexander on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Mackenzie was elected in 1805 to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, but he soon returned (1808) to Scotland, where he lived the rest of his life. | | | Given (1788) supervision of the important Athabasca fur district, Mackenzie set out (1789) from his headquarters at Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca on the first of his two noted trips of exploration. | | | Parks Canada: The Government of Canada Commemorates Canada's Second Prime Minister the Right Honourable Alexander Mackenzie |
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| | Biography: Alexander Mackenzie |
| | He became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808 and in 1812 married and moved to Scotland, where he died in 1820 of Bright's disease. | | | Born in Stornoway Scotland in 1764, Alexander Mackenzie moved to New York with his family in 1774. | | | Mackenzie became a partner in the NWC and in 1788 was put in charge of the Athabasca region. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail |
| | Mackenzie's trek in 1793, preceded the famous Lewis and Clark expedition by twelve years. | | | Alexander Mackenzie, who was born in Scotland in 1764, worked in the fur trade business for the North West Company, and by the year 1779 he was in command of the Athabasca country. | | | The Alexander Mackenzie Heritage Trail was designated as a heritage trail under the Heritage Conservation Act and as a forest recreation trail under the Forest Act, in 1987. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Speech given on February 22, 1897 by William Nelson about the life of Alexander Hamilton, from his youth through Revolutionary War service to his duel with Aaron Burr. | | | His interest in reform led to his becoming editor in 1852 of the Lambton Shield, a local Liberal newspaper. | | | After Alexander's death, there were endless disputes between his heirs that eventually led to the complete destruction of the family. |
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| | Explorer's biography: Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Mackenzie headed back for his start point at Lake Athabasca. | | | Mackenzie had found the Northwest Passage but the route that he had travelled had almost killed his band. | | | Lewis and Clark are universally acclaimed as the first white men to have crossed the North American Continent. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie was widely recognized as the greatest Scottish composer of his day. | | | Mackenzie's only association with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was a composer and first night conductor of His Majesty, a two-act comic opera written by F. Burnand, R. Lehmann, and Adrian Ross, and produced at the Savoy on February 20, 1897. | | | In 1879 he went to Florence and devoted himself to composition, until 1888 when he was appointed principal of the Royal Academy of Music, a post he held until 1924. |
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| | Tweedsmuir Provincial Park |
| | From here MacKenzie and his men were transported down the river by the Bella Coolas into Dean Channel. | | | MacKenzie's rock, on the north shore of Dean Channel, is marked with a cairn and preserved in Sir Alexander MacKenzie Provincial Park. | | | MacKenzie was the first white man to view the western seas from the shores of northwest America, preceding the more widely known Lewis and Clark expedition by more than 12 years. |
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| | First Voyage (to Arctic)-Alexander Mackenzie-18th century-Passagways |
| | A Chipewyan, who went by the English name English Chief, guided his party. | | | This river is now called the Mackenzie River, in his honour. | | | In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie set out from Fort Chipewyan on his first expedition in search of a route to the Pacific Ocean. |
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| | Introduction-Alexander Mackenzie - 18th century - Passagways |
| | The results of his two expeditions did this, but not until after he had died. | | | Mackenzie once told a friend, "I think it unpardonable in any man to remain in this country who can afford to leave it." | | | Alexander Mackenzie, fur trader and explorer, is credited with being the first European to cross the north part of North America by land. |
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| | Sir Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Determined to renew his efforts, Mackenzie travelled to England to study recent advances in the determination of longitude. | | | Armed with new knowledge and equipment, he returned to Canada a year and a half later to accomplish his dream. | | | When his company joined with the North West company in 1787, Mackenzie became a partner and set off for Athabasca, where he conceived the plan to find an overland route to the Pacific. |
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| | Great Canadian Explorers: Sir Alexander MacKenzie |
| | He fought against the monopolistic interests of the Hudson's Bay Company, as his book shows. | | | This book is about Mackenzie's search for a Northwest Passage, and the link from Canada to Russia, Japan and Cathay. | | | Mackenzie was knighted for his achievements, and he developed various commercial designs for Canadian trade to China, some of which involved American shipping and financial interests. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Alexander Mackenzie [1923-2002] studied at Liverpool School of Art before moving permanently to Cornwall, where he became one of the St. Ives group of artists and a member of the Penwith Society. | | | Alexander Mackenzie work is included in many public collections including the Tate Gallery [London] and the Arts Council. | | | A recent exhibition at Austin/Desmond Fine Art [London] was a great success. |
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| | Famous Scots - Sir Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Mackenzie was knighted for his achievements in exploration. | | | At the time, Mackenzie was a fur trader and the river, second in North America only to the Mississippi, was nameless. | | | In 1789, Sir Alexander Mackenzie became one such representative of Scotland when he became the first European to travel the length of the Mackenzie River. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie, explorer and fur trader |
| | Mackenzie's journal of his explorations appeared in 1801. | | | Alexander Mackenzie explorer and fur trader, was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe, twelve years before Lewis and Clark. | | | Mackenzie followed (1789) an unknown river (later named after him) to the Arctic Ocean. |
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| | Empire of the Bay: Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Mackenzie returned with the westward route mapped 117 days later. | | | In 1802, Mackenzie was knighted by King George III, and recognized as leader of the first expedition to cross the North American continent from the Atlantic to Pacific north of Mexico. | | | Mackenzie became the first European north of Mexico to reach the Pacific ocean on an overland route, beating, as well, the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who arrived at the coast in 1805. |
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| | canoe-odyssey.com |
| | Between 1789 and 1793, Mackenzie became the first European to cross the North American continent, twelve years before the American explorers, Lewis and Clark. | | | This web site is devoted to retracing the Cross-Canada canoe odyssey of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the great Scottish-Canadian explorer and fur trader (1764-1820). | | | At age 60, armed with a little recreational canoeing experience but with a grand sense of adventure, John Donaldson retraced the voyages of the great Scottish-Canadian explorer, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, his boyhood hero. |
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| | The Alexander Mackenzie Voyageur Route: Home Page |
| | The same route ~ stretching from Quebec City, Quebec to Bella Coola, British Columbia ~ has been formally proclaimed by Canada, the six Provinces and the one Territory through which it passes as a lasting legacy for all Canadians. | | | Native guides and French Canadian voyageur canoeists worked with Alexander Mackenzie of the North West Company from Lower Canada (Quebec) to what is now known as British Columbia in search of a shipping outlet on the Pacific. | | | Over 200 years ago, near Bella Coola, British Columbia, explorer Alexander Mackenzie noted: |
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| | Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company - Personalities |
| | On February 27, 1802 Alexander Mackenzie was knighted and became Sir Alexander Mackenzie. | | | In 1799, he returned to England to publish a book about his travels. | | | When they reached the Rocky Mountains his crew begged him to return home. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Alexander Mackenzie |
| | Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (explorer) (1764?-1820), Canadian explorer and fur trader, born in Stornoway, Lewis with Harris Island, Scotland. | | | Find more about Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (explorer) from | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | David Thompson Canadian Explorer Mapmaker History Pictures |
| | This was the first act of public recognition of the years of hard work completed a hundred and fifteen years earlier by a man now grudgingly recognized as the worlds greatest land geographer (Gottfred). | | | Leaving the Astorians on the last day of July, Thompson and his men continued up the Columbia to their winter camp on the Canoe River. | | | Since Mackenzie’s 1793 route to the Pacific was too far north to be practical for the fur trade, the partners decided to make another attempt...Thompson’s first attempt in 1801 to cross the mountains had failed. |
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| | Canadian History - Part 2 |
| | Ross, Alexander Milton, M.D. A remarkable man who contributed hugely to stopping the slave trade in America |
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| | The MACKENZIE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers" |
| | Like a gentle giant, Deh Cho, the great Mackenzie River, rules serenely over the waterways of the great northwest. | | | Instead, it led north to the Arctic Ocean. | | | In 1789, explorer Alexander Mackenzie thought he was following a river route to the west coast. |
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| | National Geographic Adventure Mag.: 100 Greatest Adventure Books (80-100) |
| | Journal of the Voyage to the Pacific, by Alexander Mackenzie (1801) Ten years before Lewis and Clark, the Canadian Mackenzie, traveling with a group of voyageurs, became the first white man to cross North America. | | | The story of their struggle to take their birch-bark canoe against the current up the Peace River is worth a book in itself. |
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| | Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, British Columbia |
| | This 981,000 hectare Park is roughly triangular in shape, surrounded by the Ootsa-Whitesail Lakes, the Coast Mountains and the Interior Plateau. | | | In a book, he stated in the foreword "I have now travelled over most of Canada and have seen many wonderful things, but I have seen nothing more beautiful and more wonderful than the great park which British Columbia has done me the honor to call by my name." | | | Trails - The Park is filled with trails providing access to some of the Park's more notable features. |
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| | Les grands explorateurs du canada: Sir Alexander MacKenzie |
| | Souvent oubliée par les historiens tant canadiens qu'américains, la vie de Mackenzie, telle que Gough la retrace, est une réévaluation de l'importance de l'exploration et du rôle des trafiquants de fourrures dans l'exploration de l'Amérique du Nord. | | | Mackenzie fut anobli en récompense de ses accomplissements, et développa plusieurs entreprises commerciales entre le Canada et la Chine, dont certaines mettaient en jeu des capitaux et des vaisseaux américains. | | | Les grands explorateurs du canada: Sir Alexander MacKenzie |
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| | BC Parks - Tweedsmuir (South) Provincial Park, Chilcotin, British Columbia |
| | Free winter camping is permitted in the Rainbow Range parking lot. | | | Overnight stays can be reserved by calling the club at (250) 982-2231. | | | The Rainbow Cabin, located in the Mackenzie Valley, is for emergency use only. |
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| | Alexander Mackenzie Hotel, Mackenzie, BC, Canada |
| | Mackenzie, B.C. Reservations (250) 997-3266, Fax (250) 997-4675 | | | Conveniently located in the centre of Mackenzie, close to all recreation facilities. | | | Only 45 minutes drive to skiing at Powder King. |
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| | TheStar.com - 2005 athletes of the year |
| | Lincoln Alexander (Mississauga) - Rahul Mohla (tennis, badminton, table tennis) | | | Lincoln Alexander (Mississauga) - Malissa Bryan (wrestling, basketball) | | | Lester B. Pearson (Burlington) - K.C. Mackenzie (track and field, basketball, badminton, volleyball) |
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