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Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820


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  • Variants

    • Kenzie, Alexander Mack, 1764-1820
    • MacChoinnich, Alasdair, 1764-1820
    • Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820
    • Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820
    • Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1755?-1820

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1764

    • Death Date

        1820-03-12

    • Has Affiliation

    • Birth Place

        Stornoway (Scotland)

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      (lcsh) Northwest, Canadian--Discovery and exploration

      Fur trade--Canada


    • Occupation

      Fur traders

      Explorers

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820

  • Sources

    • found: A map of America between latitudes 40 and 70 north and longitudes 45 and 180 west exhibiting Mackenzie's track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the north sea in 1789 & to the west Pacific Ocean in 1793, 1801:map recto (Alexander Mack Kenzie)
    • found: A map of Mackenzie's track from Fort Chipewyan to the north sea in 1789, 1801:map recto (Alexander MacKenzie)
    • found: Tooley's dict. of mapmakers, 1979(Mackenzie, Alexander (d. 1820); explorer in N. Canada (Mackenzie River) and publisher)
    • found: Mackenzie, Alexander. Mit Gewehr und Kanu, 2004:t.p. (Alexander Mackenzie)
    • found: LC database, Mar 8, 2007:(hdg.: Mackenzie, Alexander, 1763-1820)
    • found: Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1978p. 522 (MacKenzie, Sir, Alexander, 1764-1820)
    • found: Alasdair MacChoinnich ann an Canada, 1991.
    • found: DNB (via Oxford DNB, WWW, Sept. 9, 2009)(Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (1755?-1820), North American explorer, believed to have been b. at Inverness about 1755; d. at Mulnain, near Dunkeld, Mar. 11, 1820)
    • found: Oxford DNB (WWW), Sept. 9, 2009(Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (1763/4-1820), explorer, b. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis; knighted Feb. 10, 1802; d. Jan. 1820 at Mulnain, near Dunkeld)
    • found: NUC pre-56(hdg.: Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, 1763-1820)
    • found: NUC 1973(hdg.: Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820)
    • found: OCLC, Sept. 9, 2009(hdgs.: Mackenzie, Alexander; Mackenzie, Alexander, 1755-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, 1763-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1755-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820; etc.)
    • found: LAC internal file, May 21, 2019(access point: Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820; variants: Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1755?-1820; born at Stornoway, Scotland, in 1764; died near Dunkeld, Scotland, on March 12, 1820; Sir Alexander Mackenzie; fur trader and explorer; in 1779 he entered the employment of the fur-trading firm of Finlay and Gregory, later Gregory, MacLeod and Co.; in 1787 began working for the North West Company)

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    • 2002-06-05: new
    • 2019-05-22: revised

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