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Mackenzie (SIR ALEXANDER a Canadian)

SIR ALEXANDER, a Canadian explorer; born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1755. In the employment of the Northwest Fur Company, he explored the great river named after him from the W. end of Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean (1789). He made another expedition to the W. coast (1792), and was the first white man to cross the Rocky Mountains and reach the Pacific coast. He returned to Great Britain in 1801, and was knighted. He died in Mulnain, near Dunkeld, Scotland, March 11, 1820.