May 9, 1793. Fort Fork (modern day Alberta). 29 year-old Alexander Mackenzie is commissioned by the North West Company to lead a team of explorers to find a route that links the Atlantic and ...

Alexander Mackenzie was a twenty-five-year-old fur ... Mackenzie set off with nine men and a dog on May 9, 1793, paddling up the Peace River, looking for the continental divide.

Fifteen years before Lewis and Clarke, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie crossed Canada in a birchbark canoe. That was in 1793, and over two centuries later, travel writer Robert Twigger, and his band ...

Alexander Mackenzie really got around. On this day in 1798, the Scottish explorer reached the mouth of the Dehcho River (‘big river’ in the language of the Dehcho Dene indigenous people).