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    Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)

    Scottish explorer and fur trader (–)

    "Sir Alexander Mackenzie" redirects here. For others, see Alexander Mackenzie.

    Sir Alexander Mackenzie

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    Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland

    Died12 March (aged&#;55&#;56)

    Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland

    Occupation(s)Explorer, fur trader
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    Spouse

    Geddes Mackenzie

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    Children3
    Parents
    • Kenneth 'Corc' Mackenzie (–) (father)
    • Isabella MacIver (mother)

    Sir Alexander Mackenzie (c.&#; – 12 March ) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America north of Mexico by a European in The Mackenzie River and Mount Sir Alexander are named after him.

    As a leading member of the North West Company, he aspired to extend the Company's operations into western Canada and selling those furs in China. His hopes thus were intrusions on the monopoly positions of both the Hudson's Bay

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    Alexander Mackenzie (politician)

    Prime Minister of Canada from to

    For other people see Alexander Mackenzie (disambiguation) and Alexander McKenzie (disambiguation).

    The Honourable

    Alexander Mackenzie

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    In office
    November 7, &#;– October 8,
    MonarchVictoria
    Governor GeneralThe Earl of Dufferin
    Preceded byJohn A. Macdonald
    Succeeded byJohn A. Macdonald
    In office
    March 6, &#;– May 4,
    Preceded byEdward Blake
    Succeeded byEdward Blake
    In office
    September 20, &#;– April 17,
    Born()January 28,
    Logierait, Scotland
    DiedApril 17, () (aged&#;70)
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Resting placeLakeview Cemetery, Sarnia, Ontario
    Political partyLiberal
    Spouses

    Helen Neil

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    Jane Sym

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    Children3
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    AllegianceCanada
    Branch/serviceCanadian militia
    Years&#;of service–
    RankMajo

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    MACKENZIE, Sir ALEXANDER, fur trader, explorer, and author; b.  at Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, third of four children of Kenneth Mackenzie, of Melbost farm (two miles east of Stornoway), and Isabella Maciver, whose family was prominent in the town; m.  Geddes Mackenzie, and they had three children; d. 12 March at Mulinearn, near Dunkeld, Scotland.

    In the s a severe depression developed on Lewis, and in Kenneth Mackenzie decided to join his brother John in New York. His wife had died while Alexander was still a child. Kenneth sailed for North America with his two sisters and Alexander, leaving both his daughters behind. (Alexander’s older brother Murdoch studied medicine; a terse family record states that he then “followed the sea and was lost on the coast of Halifax.”) Only months after the family’s arrival the American revolution broke out, and Kenneth and John joined the King’s Royal Regiment of New York, raised by Sir John Jo