Canada In The Making - Glossary mackenzie, sir alexander (explorer) (1764 1820) In 1603, he was given afur trading monopoly in the new world from France and was obliged to settle 60 http://www.canadiana.org/citm/reference/biographies_e.html
Extractions: Canadian academic, lawyer and politician; prime minister from 1891 to 1892. An energetic man, he was appointed to the Senate in 1887, serving in Cabinet , and also briefly acted as Mayor of Montreal from 1887 to 1888. In his brief term as prime minister, he pushed for public service and Criminal Code reforms, as well as a reciprocity treaty with the U.S. He resigned in 1892 due to ill heath and died in Montreal the following year. Shipping magnate, railway promoter and financier. Born in Scotland, he immigrated to Montreal in 1826. He rose quickly and within 10 years was a partner in a merchandising firm. From there, he built the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company and expanded into railway building. In 1872, he was accused of buying a government contract to build a railway to the Pacific after it came to light that he had contributed $350,000 to the campaign of the
Welcome To The University Of Oklahoma Press - Home sir alexander mackenzie by Barry Gough Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled expeditions and places him among the elite of new world explorers, http://www.oupress.com/bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-8061-2944-1
History Of Nova Scotia, Bk1, Pt1, Ch3, Early European Explorers. George Vancouver (c.175898) and sir alexander mackenzie (c.1755-1820) was He had a daughter named Eleanor who came out to the new world with him, http://www.blupete.com/Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part1/Ch03.htm
Extractions: Chapter 3 - "Early European Explorers" Norwegians though there be very little record of it visited the most northern parts of eastern North America over a thousand years ago. Indeed, maybe before the Norwegians, the Irish paid a visit; or maybe, in classic times, the Greeks. However, what we do know, pretty well for sure, is that the Norsemen first came to Iceland, then as the decades and centuries unfolded they traveled beyond Iceland, to Greenland; and, then again, beyond Greenland to the shores of Baffin Island and Labrador; and then, swinging south, in their frail vessels, down they came along the upper coast of eastern North America. Whatever motivated these northern Europeans to keep extending their northern voyages, and exactly when they might have made them, are further matters on which we are obliged to speculate. Was it for timber? Was it new lands for splintered clans? Whatever the extent of their explorations and the timing of them, it is believed that any settlements of the Norsemen were but of a temporary kind and that they made no great impact or contribution to the exploration of North America. Before we deal with such known explorers as Cabot and Cartier, we must acknowledge the thousands of seafaring men, who, in the process of making a living, came to the shores of America, especially those that are washed by the waters that flow over the great fishing banks of the northwestern Atlantic. Discovery, like everything else in life, is an evolutionary process and one voyage by one family was built upon the knowledge gained on a previous voyage of another family member; only slowly did the Europeans become aware of their courses and their objectives that lie to the east over the ocean.
Extractions: David Thompson Bi-Centennial Commemoration Take a walk along the lakeshore in the Town of Lac La Biche and see the David Thompson Statue. The statue was built to commemorate David Thompson's landing on this lakeshore back in 1798. In addition to this point of interest you will also find a network of trails. David G Anderson He has been called the worlds greatest land geographer. Certainly no man of his time saw the rivers, islands and peoples of the western reaches of our continent with a vision so clear. His precision maps remained the official maps of western Canada for a hundred years and his perceptive writings have enabled us to see the aboriginal peoples of the early fur trade and to know the ways of a world long since vanished. Yet, less than a hundred years ago, his name was known only to a few. Even today, there is no known portrait of David Thompson and we remain unable to picture him other than by dwelling on his known similarity to two other historical figures: John Bunyan and John Philpot Curran. A Welsh boy at Hudsons Bay In 1784, as a 14-year-old Welsh boy in Londons Grey Coat charity school, David Thompson accepted an apprenticeship with the Hudsons Bay Company to learn inland surveying at the remote fur trade posts of Hudsons Bay.
Discoverers Web Alphabetical List M sir alexander mackenzie alexander mackenzie To the Pacific alexander mackenzie Peter Martyr d Anghiera The new world Chronicles of Peter Martyr http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha/m.html
Extractions: Alexander Mackenzie (Scotland, 1764?-1820) 1789: Follows the Mackenzie River to its mouth. 1793: Travels up the Peace River, crosses the Rocky Mountains, reaches the Fraser and reaches the Pacific by way of the Bella Coola River. Sir Alexander Mackenzie Alexander Mackenzie - To the Pacific Alexander Mackenzie same page in French Donald Baxter MacMillan (USA, 1874-1970) 1908-9: Member of Peary's final expedition. 1910-2: Lives in Labrador, doing ethnological research. 1913-7: Explores northwest of Axel Heiberg Island, searching for (nonexistant) Crocker Land. 1920-1954: Several more expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. 1957: Flies over the North Pole. Rear Admiral Donald B. Macmillan Donald B. MacMillan (better known as Ferdinand Magellan , also known as Fernando de Magellanes , Portugal, 1480?-1521) 1505-12: Serves in the Indies, visiting Malacca and possibly the Moluccas. 1519-22: In Spanish service, discovers the Straits of Magellan and sails through them, crosses the Pacific and reaches the Philippines. Is killed when getting involved in a local war. Other members of his expedition complete the first circumnavigation. First Circumnavigation of the Globe by Magellan 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan After dire straits an agonizing haul across the Pacific Ferdinand Magellan: The greatest voyager of them all ... Magellan, Ferdinand
Extractions: Sent as the Pope's ambassador to the Mongols, Carpini was the first European to describe the vast steppe country of Central Asia. More than 60 years old when he started out on Easter Day 1245, this Franciscan friar withstood the bitter cold of the Siberian winter as he travelled to the court of the Great Khan (Emperor) in Mongolia. On his return he wrote A History of the Tartars, describing their customs, such as drinking mare's milk, and how they had become the finest cavalry of their day 02 Marco Polo 1254-1324. Venetian. 17 years old when he began his travels with his uncle and father, Marco Polo crossed the Persian desert, climbed the Pamirs, and finally reached the court of the great Khan, Kublai, near Peking. Travelling about China he observed the use of paper money, coal, and the huge Chinese cities. 24 years later when he returned to Venice, few people believed his descriptions. But asked on his deathbed to recant, Marco answered "I have not told half of what I saw". 03 Leif Ericsson, tenth century A.D. Norseman.
Peter Pond Society Pond, apt for exploration of new trade routes, subsequently became one of the mackenzie Esq., sir alexander. 1967. Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1793. http://www.peterpondsociety.com/burial_report.html
Extractions: Introduction In 2002, the Peter Pond Society requested the Office of State Archaeology (OSA), University of Connecticut, to conduct a search for his grave. Previous geo-physical tests adjacent to the tombstone of Peter's mother Mary had determined that possibly three unmarked burials lay to the south of her in the Milford ancient burial ground. While the ground-penetrating radar can establish soil disturbances indicative of burial shafts, it is unable to determine any personal identification of the individuals buried within those shafts. To determine if the unmarked grave(s) located is that of Peter Pond, required archaeological exposure of the skeletal remains, coffin hardware and other associated material culture. The OSA conducted excavations from August 20th - 22nd 2003 with the assistance of the Friends of the Office of State Archaeology (FOSA), as well as University of Connecticut and Boston University students. History of Peter Pond (1740-1807) Peter Pond, the oldest son of Peter Pond (1718-1765) and Mary (Hubbard) Pond (1725-1761) was born on January 18th, 1740 in Milford, Connecticut (Figure #1). He was the grandson of Samuel Pond (1648-1718), who was one of the signers of the Branford, CT., Covenant on January 20th, 1667. Samuel was also signer of the New Plantation Covenant and church covenant, CT., (1688/9). Peter Pond's great grandfather, Samuel Pond
CARTON1 alexander s father, who had preceded him to the new world, enlisted in a Loyalist Gough, Barry First Across the Continent sir alexander mackenzie. http://www.chilit.org/CARTON1.HTM
Extractions: October 16, 2000 . On Thursday, June 13, 1793, a small party of exhausted men lay on the bank of one of the headwaters of the Fraser River in what is now known as British Columbia. They really had no business being there. The closest settlement of Europeans was five hundred miles to the northwest at Lake Athabaska. It, in turn, was a mere wilderness outpost, 1800 miles to the west of Montreal. Ahead of our party lay over 300 more miles of mountainous country before they might reach the Pacific, where there was no friendly face to greet them. The party had been recruited by Alexander Mackenzie, a 31 year old Scottish fur trader, with the purpose of crossing the North American continent from the settled area of Canada to the Pacific Ocean. This had never before been accomplished by Europeans north of the Spanish possessions in Mexico. In addition to Mackenzie the party consisted of nine persons: another Scot, Alexander MacKay, six French-Canadian voyageurs, and two Indian hunters. There also was a dog, known to history only as "our dog". All the men plus their baggage were carried in one twenty-five foot long birch bark canoe. The trip had been arduous, upstream all the way from Lake Athabaska.
World Almanac For Kids the efforts of the explorer sir alexander mackenzie and others and then, mackenzie King dropped Bennetts new Deal package, which was eventually http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/nations/canada2.html
Extractions: HISTORY Select a section LAND AND RESOURCES Physiographic Regions. Geological History. Rivers and Lakes. Climate. Natural Resources. Soils. Vegetation. Animals. POPULATION Population Characteristics. Political Divisions. Principal Cities. Language. Religion. EDUCATION AND CULTURE Education. Elementary and secondaryschools. Specialized schools. Universities. Cultural Life and Institutions. Libraries and museums. Theater and music. ECONOMY Labor. Agriculture. Forestry and Fishing. Furs. Mining. Manufacturing. Energy. Currency and Banking. Foreign Trade. Tourism. Transportation. Communications. GOVERNMENT Central Government. Legislature. Judiciary. Local Government. Political Parties. Health and Welfare. Defense. International Organizations. HISTORY A MEETING OF PEOPLES Indians and Inuit. European Intruders.
The Aryan Calendar 1872; Death of sir alexander mackenzie, North West Territories explorer, 1820 1853; Columbus sails on second voyage to the new world, 1493 http://www.crusader.net/texts/calendar.html
Extractions: Below is our calendar of holidays, events and remembrances of individuals who were important contributors to the success of our race and the nations they built. We have attempted to incorporate important religious holidays without showing favoritism between the indigenous religions of Europe and Christianity. While The Crusader attempts to address all the peoples of the Occident, most of our audience resides in America, therefore our calendar also lists all the American civic holidays. This calendar is largely borrowed from the Canadian Patriots Network, and to them we express our appreciation. If the reader notes any errors or inadvertent misspellings on the calendar, please let us know Top of Page The Holy Name of Our Lord or New Year's Day (Christian) Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant in 1968 Roman statesman Cicero is born in 106 A.D. Birthday of Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, German children's writer in 1785 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 5, the first successful planet landing (Venus) in 1969
Literature Of Travel And Exploration -- M Entries Gough, Barry, First across the Continent sir alexander mackenzie, Atlas ofWorld exploration, London Times Books, and new York HarperCollins, 1991 http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/travellit/azentriesm.html
Extractions: Jean Mabillon 1632[-]1707 Travel Writing Itinerarium Burgundicum , 1685; in volume 2 of Ouvrages posthumes , 3 vols, 1724 Itererarium Germanicum , first published as Libri Germanicum , vol. 4 of Vetera analecta [Collections of Anciant Writings], 1685 Iter Italicum Further Reading Barret-Kriegel, Blandine, Jean Mabillon , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1988 An impressively erudite and yet surprisingly readable biography that sets Mabillon firmly in the context of his times. However, it should be noted that his travels are covered in just one chapter.
Extractions: Before his assassination in 1687, Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle had fulfilled two personal ambitions: in 1682 he had descended the Mississippi to the sea, claiming for France the vast territory drained by the Father of Waters; and in 1686 he had extended French colonization to the lower Mississippi Valley. La Salle's own account of his adventures was not made public until 1879 when his letters and documents were published in Pierre Margry's Decouvertes et etablissements des Francais dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amerique Septentrionale , 1614-1754 (6 vols., Paris, 1876-1886); however, several contemporary accounts of the visionary Frenchman's life and death were published by his companions and followers. The first to write A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America . . . (London, 1698), wherein he described his discovery of the Falls of St. Anthony (now the site of Minneapolis, Minnesota). But, more important, he boldly repudiated La Salle's genuine claim to glory: In 1698
Furtra sir alexander mackenzie. first person to cross Canada from sea to sea of thenew things you will discover as you paddle the river ways of the new world. http://www.bwdsb.on.ca/ioees/furtra.htm
Lewis And Clark Expedition - University Libraries - USC and most accurate description of the new world; containing the original ofthe inhabitants, and the remarkable mackenzie, alexander, sir, 17631820. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/l&c/unknown.html
Extractions: Thomas Cooper Library (main library) - Government Documents - Map Library - Newspapers/Microforms - Reference Department - Science Library Business Library Film Library Math Library Music Library South Caroliniana Library - Books Division - Manuscripts Division - Modern Political Collections - University Archives Law Library Medical Library Special Library Collections Other USC campus Libraries The Unknown Interior and French Louisiana
American Journeys Find A Document 1583, Brief and True Account of the exploration of new Mexico, AJ006 1793,mackenzie, alexander, sir, 1763-1820, Voyages from Montreal, http://www.americanjourneys.org/texts.asp
Extractions: Home Find a Document Images Advanced Search Highlights Teachers ... American Journeys Home Find a Document Click any underlined column heading to sort the list; click the "AJ-" number to go to a document's homepage. Find works about specific explorers, expeditions, or geographic areas by using the boxes below. Learn why these particular works were chosen by clicking "About." Select a Field Expedition or Settlement Geographic Region U.S. State or Canadian Province Show All Documents Results: 181 results Date Author Title AJ # The Saga of Eric the Red AJ-056 The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book AJ-057 Adam of Bremen From Adam of Bremen's Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis AJ-058 From the Icelandic Annals AJ-059 Papal Letters Concerning the Bishophric of Gardar in Greenland during the Fifteenth Century AJ-060 Articles of Agreement Between the Lords the Catholic Sovereigns and Cristóbal Colon AJ-061 Columbus, Christopher Journal of the First Voyage of Columbus AJ-062 Columbus, Christopher
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Arctic Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com Fiennes holds many world exploration records. sir alexander mackenzie (1755?1820)was a Scottish-born fur trader and explorer who charted the mackenzie http://www.zoomschool.com/explorers/arctic.shtml
Extractions: Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was a Norwegian polar explorer who was the first person to fly over the North Pole in a dirigible (May 11-13, 1926) and was the first person to reach the South Pole. Amundsen and his small expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, traveling by dog sled. Amundsen was also the first person to sail around the world through the Northeast and Northwest passages, from the Atlantic to the Pacific (in 1905). He was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. Amundsen died in a plane crash attempting to rescue his friend, the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile who was lost in an airship. For more information on Amundsen, click here BOYD, LOUISE A. Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972), known as the "ice woman," was an American who repeatedly explored and photographed the Arctic Ocean; she was also the first woman to fly over the North Pole. Born in San Rafael, California, (near San Francisco), Boyd inherited the family fortune (made by her father's investment company) when she was 33 years old (in 1920).
Untitled Document of early English accounts of travel to the new world encompassing 103 volumes), mackenzie, alexander, sir, 17631820. Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, http://www.stolaf.edu/library/instruction/biguides/fall2004/ARMS251earlyamerica.
Extractions: Back to Course-Specific Research Guides Page ARMS 251 THE PROBLEM OF RACE IN EARLY AMERICA Fall 2004 Paper Assignment #1: Writing Race in Early America How do I find non-fiction accounts of early exploration and travel? I Browsing reference materials: Browse through reference books relevant to your topic. The Atlas of North American Exploration [RR G1106. S12 G6] and Ofxord Atlas of Exploration [RR fG1036. S12A87] are good places to start. Also, see Encyclopedia of Exploration [RR G200 .H69], The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia 2v.[RR E111 .C7], Literature of Travel and Exploration : An Encyclopedia 3v.[RR G465 L565], and Encyclopedia of Travel Literature [RR G465 .B765]. II Searching in subsciption databases: The on-line database of Early American Imprints, Series I provides electronic access to a variety of American publications from 1639 to 1800, including travel literature, captivity narratives, and diaries.
Extractions: Search for Books By author: By title: By keyword or ISBN: Advanced booksearch Search for multiple books @Biblio Home Search for books Books by subject Rare book room ... Contact us Books by subject Arts Biography Books on Books Gardening ... More subjects Browse by subject Browse by title Browse by author ENGLISH VOYAGES OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY - Retold from Hakluyt Bacon, Edwin M. (retold from Richard Hakluyt) Format: Hardcover Offered by W. Fraser Sandercombe (Ontario, Canada) Add to cart Shipping rates THE LAST RIVER - The Tragic Race for Shangri La Balf, Todd Format: Paperback New York: Crown Publishers, 2000. 263 pp. Inscribed by Todd Balf on the front endpaper to a previous owner. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; aside from the signature, no interior markings. . ISBN: 0609606255. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. Uncorrected Proof. tsangpo river; himalayas; tsangpo gorge; kayak; white water kayaking; signed; shangri la;.
