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Mackenzie was thus the first white explorer to cross the American continent—twelve years before the better-known expedition of Lewis and Clark. On the 24th of August they were back where they had started on the Peace River, having discovered no Northwest Passage. In the conclusion of his published account, he suggested a new goal for the ...
Sir Alexander MacKenzie (* 1764 in Stornoway, Äußere Hebriden; † 12. März 1820 in Mulinearn bei Dunkeld, Schottland) oder gälisch Alasdair MacCoinnich war ein schottisch-kanadischer Entdecker, der Expeditionen im Nordwesten Kanadas unternahm. Nach ihm ist der Fluss Mackenzie benannt. 1774 wanderte die Familie MacKenzie von Schottland nach ...
Alexander Mackenzie. Alexander Mackenzie, second premier ministre du Canada de 1873 à 1878, maçon, entrepreneur, auteur et courtier d’assurance (né le 28 janvier 1822 à Logierait, en Écosse; décédé le 17 avril 1892 à Toronto, en Ontario). Alexander Mackenzie a été le deuxième premier ministre du Canada.
Biografia. Nacque a Luskentyre House a Stornoway sull'isola di Lewis e Harris nell'arcipelago delle isole Ebridi [1] terzo dei quattro figli di Kenneth 'Corc' Mackenzie (1731-1780) e di sua moglie Isabella MacIver che morì quando Alexander era ancora piccolo. Intorno al 1770 e negli anni successivi l'isola di Lewis attraversò un periodo di ...
Born in Highland croft at the Pass Scotland in 1822, Mackenzie became a qualified stonemason and by the age of 20 had left his first home of the Church of Scotland and had become a dedicated Baptist. He was entranced by the promises of a visiting cabinet minister from Upper Canada, concerning the advantages and opportunities which the colonies ...
13 de abr. de 2024 · Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish-born politician who was the first Liberal prime minister of Canada (1873–78). Mackenzie emigrated in 1842 from Scotland to Canada West (now Ontario), where he worked as a stone mason and established himself as a building contractor at Sarnia.
In the 1950s and early 1960s Alexander Mackenzie was regarded as one of the most important of the St Ives group of UK artists - he was represented in London by Waddington Galleries [3 one-man exhibitions] and the prestigious Durlacher Bros. gallery in New York [2 one-man shows] who also represented Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and John Wells.
