Quiz Feature 1 We all know that Christopher Columbus discovered the new world in 1492. alexander mackenzie, a North West Company fur trader, set out in 1789 to http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/1997/10/quiz_01.html
Extractions: Subscribe Gift Subscription Letters to Editors It's a Fact ... Our Canada Quiz Feature How Well Do You Know Your Explorers? BY KEN RAMSTEAD C HRISTOPHER COLUMBUS is the best known of the wanderers who charted the globe, but there were plenty of others. How well do you know them? To find out, navigate your way through the following questions. We all know that Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World in 1492. But Viking adventurers from the Old World beat him to it by almost five centuries. What name did they give their first settlement in North America? Close, me hearty. But Sir Francis Drake, in 1577-80, was only the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world. Back to 9 No, Marco Polo was more than 200 years too early to have heard of El Dorado, a fabulous land of gold. Stories of its riches drew many Spanish explorers to South America's interior in the 16th and 17th centuries. Try 19 again You're right on course. Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese seaman in the service of Spain, set sail in 1519 with five ships. After navigating through the South American strait that now bears his name, Magellan sailed into an ocean so calm that he named it the Pacific.
Famous Freemasons From Around The World Fleming, sir alexander. Scottish bacteriologist and discoverer of Penicillin . 1062, Brooklyn, new York. Peary, Robert E. American explorer. http://www.durham.net/~cedar/famous.html
Extractions: FAMOUS MASONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Many sites list famous people, claiming them to be Freemasons. While most are true, many are pure speculation or even falsification. It is attempted within this page to produce an authentic list of well known personalities and where possible give references for even more information. The list of reference material used is given below. Many hours have been spent compiling this list, feel free to link to it but please don't just copy it and claim it as your own. Follow the LINK TEXT for extra references. Other pages are listed at the bottom of the page. A B C D ... Z
THE NOR'WESTERS: SOME TRULY GREAT CANADIANS William McGillivray, sir alexander mackenzie and any three of the The tradersexplorers of new France built a string of forts and thriving trade http://www.quebecoislibre.org/05/050515-9.htm
Extractions: SOME TRULY GREAT CANADIANS [We are hampered] by a set of unprincipled agents of government on one side and by a speculating nobleman on the other equally, it appears, bent on the same subject to exclude Canada and Canadians from this too famous trade The H.B. Company, you see, [we] intend to oppose seriously. I hope the ancient North West spirit will rouse with indignation. -William McGillivray by Chris Leithner In 2004, a nationwide contest organised by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation voted Tommy Douglas the "greatest Canadian of all time." More than 1.2 million votes were cast; and in feature programs broadcast on CBC Television, advocates made their cases for the Top Ten nominees. After a Final Showdown and one last chance to vote, the result was announced on 29 November.
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Extractions: Website Click on a thumb nail for more information. Artist Name Product Name Product type Thumb Nail Doug Hyde High On Love Sculpture Painting Doug Hyde Together we can Dream Painting Doug Hyde Hopelessly Devoted Painting Doug Hyde The Boys Painting Doug Hyde The Explorers Painting Doug Hyde The Explorers sculpture Sculpture Doug Hyde Tiger ! Painting Doug Hyde The usual Suspects Sculpture Sculpture Doug Hyde Catch me if you can Sculpture Sculpture Doug Hyde Love is all around Painting Doug Hyde Bear Hug Sculpture Sculpture Doug Hyde In The Dog House Sculpture Sculpture Doug Hyde You Are My Sunshine Canvas Painting Doug Hyde Love Swept Painting Doug Hyde Beware Of The Dog Bronze Sculpture Painting Doug Hyde Walkies Painting Doug Hyde High On Love Painting Doug Hyde Love at first sight Painting Doug Hyde In The Dog House Painting Doug Hyde The Big Smile Bronze Sculpture Painting Doug Hyde Night watchman Painting Doug Hyde 7 Days A Week Painting Doug Hyde Stowaway Painting Doug Hyde High On Love Bronze Sculpture Painting Gary Hodges Spirit of Elsa Painting Gary Hodges Cheeky Monkey Painting Gary Hodges Family Painting Gary Hodges JOY Painting Mackenzie Thorpe With Love Painting Mackenzie Thorpe Waiting Painting Mackenzie Thorpe Up A Hill Painting Mackenzie Thorpe A New Child Sculpture Mackenzie Thorpe in love Painting Mackenzie Thorpe she loves me Painting Mackenzie Thorpe PETALS IN THE WIND Painting Mackenzie Thorpe The Great Journey Painting Mackenzie Thorpe See You Monday George
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Famous Scots McKellar Kenneth (1927- ) - This popular tenor toured the world with Scottish mackenzie - sir alexander (1764-1820) - Explored Canada and reached the http://www.rampantscotland.com/famous/famous.htm
Extractions: Here are biographies of a growing selection of Scots who have had an influence on the world - ranging from saints in the 6th century to Billy Connolly in the 20th. There are already over 120 famous Scots in this index, in alphabetical order. But if you are looking for someone specific, you may find it faster to use the "search" or "find" function on your browser. Adam - Robert (1728-1792) - Architect of Culzean Castle and many other fine buildings. Alexander III - King (1241-1286) - A direct descendant of the first king of the Scots, Kenneth mac Alpin. Allan - Robert (1774-1841) - Born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, died in USA. Asquith - Margot (1864-1945) - High society wit and non-conformist who married Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. Baird - John Logie (1888-1946) - Started the first TV station in the world. Barrie - Sir J M (1860-1937) - Author of "Peter Pan" and "The Admirable Crichton". Barbour - John (1316-1395) - Father of Scottish vernacular poetry with his epic "The Brus". Bell - Alexander Graham (1847-1922) - Inventor of the telephone and involved in genetics and phonetics.
Tourism BC | Cariboo Chilcotin Coast | Historic & Heritage Sites Called the eighth wonder of the world, the 642km (400-mi) Cariboo Waggon To reach sir alexander mackenzie Provincial Park -the westernmost point of http://www.hellobc.com/en-CA/SightsActivitiesEvents/AirLandActivities/HistoricHe
Welcome Messages | 2004 CSEG National Convention Come explore your wild side, renew friendships and make new ones. initiating the sir alexander mackenzie Canada Seato-Sea Bicentennial Expedition. http://www.cseg.ca/conventions/2004/welcome.html
Extractions: Home Page Welcome Messages Technical Program Sponsors ... Contacts From Tuesday, May 11 through to Thursday, May 13, we will be at the Telus Convention Centre for a full slate of technical sessions as well as a day of special sessions. Satinder Chopra and the technical team will showcase the innovative ideas and technology that are essential for the advancement of the science of geophysics. The convention is a great place to share these developments, so we encourage CSEG members to consider presenting a technical paper. Remember, it is you who are the driving force behind our exploration successes. The Exhibit Floor has been sold out in previous years, so sign up early. Carmen Swalwell and her committee are working hard at creating an Exhibit Floor with the leading companies in the field of geophysics. These exhibitors will be there to share their products and ideas essential to our geophysical work. New this year will be a charity auction on the Exhibit Floor on Tuesday, May 11. Make sure you take time to walk through the exhibit hall, check out the many items, and place your bids before the silent auction ends in happy hour between 4 pm and 5 pm on Tuesday. There will be a breakfast with the exhibitors and interpretation contest.
Secondary Social Sciences - History: Educational Resources The Colonial Period, The Victorian Era, The First world War, sir SandfordFleming, Captain Robert Bartlett, sir alexander mackenzie, Louis Riel, http://www.qesnrecit.qc.ca/socialsciences/cycles45/history/links414/links.htm
The HARVEY GENEALOGIST of the new land in European minds. Many of the explorers, It was opened tothe fur trade through the efforts of sir alexander mackenzie and others http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6575/canada/history.htm
Leithner&Company Pty Ltd - The Leithner Letter One particularly enterprising Norwester, sir alexander mackenzie, The tradersexplorers of new France built a string of forts and thriving trade routes http://www.leithner.com.au/newsletter/issue65.htm
Extractions: In 2004, a nationwide contest organised by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation voted Tommy Douglas Sir Wilfrid Laurier Ernest Lapointe Thomas Crerar and Henri Bourassa . Much better, remove from the list all politicians (and windbags and ratbags) and fill the six resultant vacancies with Simon McTavish William McGillivray Sir Alexander Mackenzie and any three of the following: Charles Chaboillez Simon Fraser Nicolas Montour and Venant St Germain and Jean Etienne Wadin Some Truly Great Canadians It is typically Canadian that the typical Canadian knows nothing about this latter group of eight nominees. Perhaps this is because these contenders were, by contemporary standards, archetypically untypical Canadians. They were arguably the most wildly daring and astonishingly successful men who ever operated a business enterprise in the New World. They were the founders and most significant owners of, and the driving forces behind, the North West Company The North West Company was never a company in the modern sense of the term. Rather, it was a series of partnerships, renegotiated every several years, among groups of capitalists, merchants and explorers. Some of its partners (and most of its clerks and almost all
CHRS - What's New - 2002 Archives Other explorers, such as sir John Franklin, soon followed and the Coppermine became mackenzies route was officially proclaimed in 1997 as the alexander http://www.chrs.ca/New_Archives/New-Archives02_e.htm
Extractions: May 13-15, 2003. The St. Lawrence River is one of the world's great rivers. The St. Lawrence Seaway is the world's longest deep-draft inland waterway, providing access for ocean-going freighters to the heart of North America. The theme of the 10th Annual International Conference on the St. Lawrence River Ecosystem is "Large River Ecosystems - Under Stress". The conference will explore the protection, restoration and conservation of large rivers. This event will be held on May 13-14-15, 2003, at the NavCanada Conference and Training Centre in Cornwall, Ontario. The keynote speaker is Marq de Villers, author of the Governor General's award winning book "Water". Abstracts are due January 18, 2003. For more information, contact Christina Collard (613-936-6620; info@riverinstitute.com
Canada GenWeb Project - Projet GenWeb Du Canada 1793, sir alexander mackenzie crosses Canada by land. 1793, (9 July 1793) UpperCanada s Abolition Act forbade any new slaves, and gave freedom to children http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/html/e-timeline.html
Extractions: A Brief Historical Timeline of Canada 15,000 BC Nomadic Asian populations crossed the Bering land bridge to North America in three waves, forming the foundation of the three major native groups in Canada (courtesy of Ian) 1000 AD Newfoundland is colonized by Vikings Explorer John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) reaches Newfoundland or Nova Scotia Jacques Cartier explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence as far as Québec City and Montreal and claims this land for France The first French settlement in America, Charlesbourg-Royal, is established by Jacques Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval Settlement of New France begins Québec is founded by Samuel de Champlain The Company of One Hundred Associates is formed to colonize New France Québec is captured by Britain Québec is returned to France by the 'Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye' Samuel de Champlain is named the first Governor of New France Dollard des Ormeaux and 16 French soldier, accompanied by a few Algonquins and Hurons, are in a small fort, near Carillon and Chute-à-Blondeau, and fight for at least 8 days against more than 500 Iroquois. Finally, the Iroquois invest the fort and find so few French Canadians that they decided not to attack Montréal (Ville-Marie) as they intended. This gave a cahnce to the French colony to continue and went on to the signing of the traité des Iroquois in 1671. (courtesy of Marc Scott) Great Québec earthquake Québec becomes a crown colony (royal province) of France
THE PEACE RIVER AND SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE He was twentyfour year old alexander mackenzie, a brand new partner, So far in our story we have spoken mostly of mackenzie as an explorer and a http://www.calverley.ca/Part 02 - Fur Trade/2-007.html
Extractions: 2-007: SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE By Dorthea Calverley In 1787 Peter Pond’s successor paddled into the Peace River country. He was twenty-four year old Alexander Mackenzie, a "brand new partner, recently appointed to replace Peter Pond in the rich Athabasca trade department" of the newly re-organized Northwest Company. He was destined not to be the first white man on the Peace, but the first to leave us a remaining written record of the area. Certainly he became its most famous figure. Little is known of his early life except that he came from Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides as a motherless boy of twelve. At the time the Seven Year War had ended but the American Revolutionary war was about to begin. England was poor; Scotland and the Isles, always poorer after the times of Bonnie Prince Charlie, were poorer still. The crofters or small farmers were being forced off their lands. Many like Mackenzie, father and son, found their way to the New England colonies. When the American Revolution almost immediately broke out the Mackenzies, loyal to the British Crown, were more akin to the Canadians who did not join in the Revolution. His father, a British officer, went back into the army, apparently, and died. He had sent his young son to Montreal for safety in 1779. Alexander probably attended a school of some kind for three years. At sixteen Alexander, and later Roderick, were apprenticed to the Montreal firm of Mr. Gregory, who later traded out of Detroit as the Gregory - McLeod firm and which still later was absorbed by the Northwesters.
DAVID THOMSON, THE SCOTTISH FOUNDER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE And, to those who knew him in the new world of new England, he was referred to as a When sir William alexander became Scottish Secretary of State, http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/online/DavidPart02.htm
Extractions: DAVID THOMSON, THE SCOTTISH FOUNDER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE... A GENTLEMAN, AND A SCHOLAR by Genevieve Cora Fraser PART 2 In 1622, David Thomson was referred to as a "gentleman" in at least two legal documents, the Indenture where he is styled " Dauid Thomson of Plymouth in the County of devon gentleman of those Parte ," and in the grant for Massachusetts signed by Ludvick, the Duke of Lennox; the Marquis of Hamilton; Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundell and Surrey and others. As was noted, these individuals acting on behalf of the Council for New England " deputized, authorized and appointed, and in our place and stead have put David Thomson, Gent.,... to be our true and lawful attorney ..." (47) Earlier that year, Thomson was "appointed to attend the Lords, for a warrant to Mr. Attorney-General." In the introduction to the "Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight," we learn that the Attorney General at the time was Sir Thomas Coventry. Though Croke’s report primarily focuses on the reign of Charles the First, the documents cited make perfectly clear that any individual who pretends a "right to beare Armes, or Ensignes of gentry" might find himself hauled off to court to "disclayme the name and style of gentleman." Typically a judge might order the Defendent to attend the King of Arms, and the Officers of Arms, to inform them of "the truth and his right in the pedigree exhibited by him at Court, that the court might receive from them a certificate accordingly." (49)
Explorers Of North America - EnchantedLearning.com The King of Spain sent Aviles to Florida in the new world, sir AlexanderMackenzie (1755?1820) was a Scottish-born fur trader and explorer who charted http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/namerica.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 ANZA, JUAN BAUTISTA DE Captain Juan Bautista de Anza (1736-1788) was a Mexican-born trailblazer and explorer. He was the first person of European descent to establish an overland trail from Mexico to the northern Pacific coast of California (then called New Albion). He found a corridor through the desolate Sonoran Desert. His expeditions brought hundreds of settlers to California. He founded the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose. De Anza was the commander of the presidio at Tubac.
Canada In The Making - Teachers Resources For example, alexander mackenzie, Canadas second Prime Minister, was born inScotland Areas to explore include. Key historical figures (eg sir John A. http://www.canadiana.org/citm/education/lesson11/lesson11_e.html
Extractions: The Loyalists What to Bring? Settlers had to make sure they were properly supplied before setting out to the frontier. Students could work alone or in groups to develop a list of supplies required to travel to the prairies and start a farm before there were trains. They could compare this to the period after trains crossed the nation.
Extractions: for Young Explorers Alexander Mackenzie, the first explorer to cross North America, was born in Scotland in 1764. At the age of ten, he emigrated to New York and four years later came to study in Montreal. At only 15 years old, Mackenzie became a clerk in the company of fur merchants Finlay and Gregory (which became Gregory, MacLeod and Company in 1783). Five years later, he was offered a share in the company on the condition that he went to Grand-Portage. Alexander Mackenzie Captain James Cook . Mackenzie followed his dream of being the first to find this route. From 1785 to 1787, Mackenzie traded furs North West Company , and Mackenzie was made a partner. To acquire a fur trading monopoly from London, the North West Company promoted its explorations and its knowledge of the northwestern territory. The Company asked Mackenzie to spend the following winter with Peter Pond in Athabasca as he was to succeed him in the region.
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Australia Scots Australian History First governor of Western Australia; Stuart, sir alexander Premier of new SouthWales; Stuart, John McDouall Explorer; Stuart, sir Thomas Peter Anderson http://www.electricscotland.com/history/australia/
