Sir alexander mackenzie biography of mahatma gandhi

Alexander Mackenzie was a trader and explorer who published a journal of his travels throughout North America.

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Born in Scotland, Mackenzie came to New York in 1774 with his father, Kenneth Mackenzie, and two aunts, who took care of him. In 1778, Alexander's aunts sent him to Montreal for schooling, and, in 1779, he joined a fur-trade company that would later be amalgamated into the North West Company, of which Mackenzie would receive a partner's share.

In 1788, Mackenzie headed the North West Company's Athabasca post, and, a year later, the company ordered him to find route, navigable by water, to the Pacific Ocean.

Mackenzie departed on his first voyage from the newly built from Fort Chipewyan in June 1789 and travelled the length of the Mackenzie River only to arrive at Garry Island, Northwest Territory.

Makenzie set out on a second voyage in October 1792; he hoped to find a river on the western descent of the Rocky Mountains with which he could follow to