Download or read book Sir Alexander Mackenzie and His Influence on the History of the North West written by Walter Noble Sage and published by Kingston, [Ont.] : Jackson Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Alexander Mackenzie and His Influence on the History of the North West by Walter N Sage written by Walter N. Sage and published by . This book was released on with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Barry M. Gough and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled link to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789 journey to the Arctic Ocean and his arduous journey to the Pacific in 1793 predate the Lewis and Clark expedition. By the age of thirty-one, Alexander Mackenzie had become the first man to cross North America from the northwestern hub of the interior trade, Lake Athabasca, to the Pacific Ocean. He had opened the continent to trade and exploration. In his research, Barry Gough traveled from Mackenzie's birthplace to his tomb and from Montreal to both the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific. He takes the reader along with Mackenzie on his hazardous travels and voyages, using contemporary accounts to bring to life the perils faced by the young explorer. First Across the Continent reveals the international impact of Sir Alexander Mackenzie's expeditions and places him among the elite of New World Explorers, illuminating his vital role in the history of the fur trade and the American West.
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Barry M. Gough and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
Download or read book First Crossing written by Derek Hayes and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage written by Alan Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie and the North West written by Roy Daniells and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie Explorer written by James K. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer and North West Company fur trader of 18th century Canada, who discovered the Mackenzie River, and who was the first man to reach the Pacific overland north of Mexico. Includes maps, photographs, list of Indian groups encountered by Mackenzie, and bibliography.
Download or read book The Journals of Alexander MacKenzie written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 2001-06-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Mackenzie was the first man to cross continental North America, a trip he accomplished by canoe ... 12 years before Lewis and Clark.
Download or read book Disappointment River written by Brian Castner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey -- and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of globalization and climate change. Fourteen years before Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie set off to cross the continent of North America with a team of voyageurs and Chipewyan guides, to find a trade route to the riches of the East. What he found was a river that he named "Disappointment." Mackenzie died thinking he had failed. He was wrong. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote indigenous villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that could become a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money.
Download or read book Alexander Mackenzie Biography written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PageWise, Inc. offers a biographical sketch about the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820). Mackenzie explored the northwest and discovered the Mackenzie River in 1789. In 1793, Mackenzie found a northwest passage through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie published a book in 1801 entitled "Voyages from Montreal," which gave an account of his expedition.
Download or read book Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by New York : A.S. Barnes. This book was released on 1903 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Man West written by Alexander MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen s Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Man West written by Sir Alexander Mackenzie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclop dia of Canadian History written by Lawrence Johnstone Burpee and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interesting History of the Mackenzie Peace and Finlay Rivers written by Emily Stehr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting History of the Mackenzie, Peace and Finlay Rivers Definitions of the Mackenzie River: