A Map Showing the Travels of Alexander Mackenzie
EXPLORER: Alexander Mackenzie (c. 1763 [exact date of birth unknown]-1820)
FROM: Scotland; expedition on behalf of the North West Company of Canada
IMPORTANT DATES: in 1789, he followed the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean; in 1792, he departed on a second expedition on the Peace River; he traversed the Rocky Mountains and came down the Fraser and Bella Coola Rivers to the Pacific in 1793
VOYAGE: overland and river
VESSELS: canoes
POTENTIAL PURPOSE: search for the Northwest Passage; development of fur trade
