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Sir Alexander Mackenzie was one of the greatest explorers in history. He opened up vast tracts of the Canadian wilderness for trade and settlement. He mapped the Mackenzie River all the way to the Arctic Ocean and seas the first man to travel right across Canada and return.
While Cook and Vancouver were sailing the seas and touching on the coast, Mackenzie was slogging through the dense rainforests of the West Coast, over the majestic barrier of the Rockies and across the endless grasslands of the Prairies.
Mackenzie's was born on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland in the small town of Stornaway.
His journey as an explorer started when his father brought him from Britain to New York City in where the revolution was starting to gain momentum. His father joined the King's Royal Regiment of New York and died in NY from unknown causes in Alexander was taken in by his aunts who moved to Johnstown and then as loyalists they moved to Montreal where Alexander was enrolled in school.
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