Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820

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Name (Latin)
Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820
Other forms of name
Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1755?-1820
Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820
Kenzie, Alexander Mack, 1764-1820
MacChoinnich, Alasdair, 1764-1820
Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820
Date of birth
1764
Date of death
1820-03-12
Field of activity
Fur trade--Canada
Northwest, Canadian--Discovery and exploration
Occupation
Explorers
Fur traders
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 10149556
Wikidata: Q319657
Library of congress: n 2002125712
Sources of Information
  • 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)
  • A map of Mackenzie's track from Fort Chipewyan to the north sea in 1789, 1801:map recto (Alexander MacKenzie)
  • Alasdair MacChoinnich ann an Canada, 1991.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • LC database, Mar 8, 2007:(hdg.: Mackenzie, Alexander, 1763-1820)
  • Mackenzie, Alexander. Mit Gewehr und Kanu, 2004:t.p. (Alexander Mackenzie)
  • Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1978p. 522 (MacKenzie, Sir, Alexander, 1764-1820)
  • NUC 1973(hdg.: Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820)
  • NUC pre-56(hdg.: Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, 1763-1820)
  • 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.)
  • 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)
  • Tooley's dict. of mapmakers, 1979(Mackenzie, Alexander (d. 1820); explorer in N. Canada (Mackenzie River) and publisher)