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Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820

LC control no.n 2002125712
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingMackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820
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Variant(s)Kenzie, Alexander Mack, 1764-1820
MacChoinnich, Alasdair, 1764-1820
Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820
Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820
Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1755?-1820
Birth date1764
Death date1820-03-12
Place of birthStornoway (Scotland)
Place of deathDunkeld (Scotland)
Field of activityNorthwest, Canadian--Discovery and exploration Fur trade--Canada
AffiliationNorth West Company
Profession or occupationFur traders Explorers
Found inA map of America between latitudes 40 and 70 north and longitudes 45 and 180 west exhibiting Mackenzie's track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the north sea in 1789 & to the west Pacific Ocean in 1793, 1801: map recto (Alexander Mack Kenzie)
A map of Mackenzie's track from Fort Chipewyan to the north sea in 1789, 1801: map recto (Alexander MacKenzie)
Tooley's dict. of mapmakers, 1979 (Mackenzie, Alexander (d. 1820); explorer in N. Canada (Mackenzie River) and publisher)
Mackenzie, Alexander. Mit Gewehr und Kanu, 2004: t.p. (Alexander Mackenzie)
LC database, Mar 8, 2007: (hdg.: Mackenzie, Alexander, 1763-1820)
Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1978 p. 522 (MacKenzie, Sir, Alexander, 1764-1820)
Alasdair MacChoinnich ann an Canada, 1991.
DNB (via Oxford DNB, WWW, Sept. 9, 2009) (Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (1755?-1820), North American explorer, believed to have been b. at Inverness about 1755; d. at Mulnain, near Dunkeld, Mar. 11, 1820)
Oxford DNB (WWW), Sept. 9, 2009 (Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (1763/4-1820), explorer, b. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis; knighted Feb. 10, 1802; d. Jan. 1820 at Mulnain, near Dunkeld)
NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, 1763-1820)
NUC 1973 (hdg.: Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820)
OCLC, Sept. 9, 2009 (hdgs.: Mackenzie, Alexander; Mackenzie, Alexander, 1755-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, 1763-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1755-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820; etc.)
LAC internal file, May 21, 2019 (access point: Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820; variants: Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1755?-1820; born at Stornoway, Scotland, in 1764; died near Dunkeld, Scotland, on March 12, 1820; Sir Alexander Mackenzie; fur trader and explorer; in 1779 he entered the employment of the fur-trading firm of Finlay and Gregory, later Gregory, MacLeod and Co.; in 1787 began working for the North West Company)
National bib agency no.0102F7691E
Associated languageeng
Invalid LCCNn 2007016598 n 80010501
Quality codenlc