Chessler Books - Mountaineering, Rock Climbing, Exploration (B3375) FIRST ACROSS THE CONTINENT sir alexander mackenzie Gough, Barry. A decadebefore Lewis and Clark, mackenzie forged a route to the 1995, new edition. http://www.chesslerbooks.com/CHlist.asp?Cat=canada
Extractions: Sent as the Pope's ambassador to the Mongols, Carpini was the first European to describe the vast steppe country of Central Asia. More than 60 years old when he started out on Easter Day 1245, this Franciscan friar withstood the bitter cold of the Siberian winter as he travelled to the court of the Great Khan (Emperor) in Mongolia. On his return he wrote A History of the Tartars, describing their customs, such as drinking mare's milk, and how they had become the finest cavalry of their day 02 Marco Polo 1254-1324. Venetian. 17 years old when he began his travels with his uncle and father, Marco Polo crossed the Persian desert, climbed the Pamirs, and finally reached the court of the great Khan, Kublai, near Peking. Travelling about China he observed the use of paper money, coal, and the huge Chinese cities. 24 years later when he returned to Venice, few people believed his descriptions. But asked on his deathbed to recant, Marco answered "I have not told half of what I saw". 03 Leif Ericsson, tenth century A.D. Norseman.
Canada the NorWesters actively sought out new sources of It was sir alexander mackenzie,a North West partner, who are the highest coastal mountains in the world. http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/canada/history.html
Extractions: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CANADA From its northern Arctic islands to the majestic mountains of the Western Cordillera and the windswept tip of Newfoundland, Canada encompasses an area of almost 4 million square miles (10 million square kilometers). It is the largest country in North America but its entire population of approximately 30 million is equivalent to that of California. Most people reside close to the US border and the vast expanse of remaining land forms one of the most extensive wilderness areas in the world. Basilica at Ste. Anne de Beaupré Cladonia lichen grow among the thinning forests. It is the main food source for caribou, moose and musk oxen during the winter months. These animals, in turn, provide food, clothing and shelter to woodland peoples. Elk In the springtime, great herds of caribou migrate from the forest to their summer calving grounds. On the Eastern Shield, the George River herd of Quebec Labrador caribou is one of the largest herds in the world with an estimated 700,000 to 800,000 animals. On the Western Shield, the Bathurst herd of barren ground caribou has about 350,000 animals that summer around Bathurst Inlet. To the west of Hudson Bay, the Qamanirjuaq (Kaminuriak) herd numbers about 500,000 while the Thelon Game Sanctuary is located within the range of the Beverly herd of approximately 300,000 animals. The vast tundra region of northern Canada extends beyond the Shield to the Yukon in the west and encompasses the Arctic archipelago. Including portions of Greenland and Alaska, it is the traditional homeland of the Inuit people who have adapted to one of the most adverse conditions on earth. Unable to control the Arctic environment at large, the sophisticated design and manufacture of their clothing created individual micro climates that allowed them to survive in extremely cold weather. It is no fluke that Robert Peary and Ronald Amundsen, attributed with conquering the North and South Poles respectively, both utilized Inuit technology in their endeavors. In spite of copying the design of the
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Arctic Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com described Fiennes as the world s greatest living mackenzie, alexander sir alexandermackenzie (1755?1820) was a born fur trader and explorer who charted the http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/arctic.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
Explorers Explorers of new Worlds Drake ; Jean Nicolet ; Leif Eriksson; alexander mackenzie; Henry Hudson Verrazano ; Amerigo Vespucci ; John Davis ; sir Martin Frobisher http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/CENTweb/explorers.htm
Extractions: Explorers of New Worlds A Web Quest for Heritage and Citizenship : Grade 6 - Aboriginal Peoples and European Explorers Introduction Explorers have always been adventurous people. Their motivations vary from the desire for wealth and fame to a quest for knowledge. Some expeditions are more successful and others more dangerous, but all are interesting! By completing this unit, the student will have met the following expectations of the Ontario Curriculum Grades 1 - 6 - Social Studies : Grade 6 Aboriginal Peoples and European Explorers. -identify early explorers (e.g., Viking, French, English) who established settlements in Canada and explain the reasons for their exploration (e.g., fishing; fur trade, resulting in the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company); -identify technological developments and cultural factors that led to the exploration of North America; -identify some of the consequences of Aboriginal and European interactions (e.g., economic impact of the fur trade on Aboriginal peoples; transmission of European diseases to Aboriginal peoples). -construct and read a variety of graphs, charts, diagrams, maps, and models for specific purposes (e.g., to trace the routes of the explorers);
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Sir Alexander Mackenzie Six volumes, new York D. Appleton and Company, 18871889 mackenzie, sir alexander,explorer, born in Inverness, Scotland, about 1755; died in Dalhousie http://www.famousamericans.net/siralexandermackenzie/
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Discoverers Web Alphabetical List M sir alexander mackenzie alexander mackenzie To the Pacific alexander mackenzie- same page way of the Canadian 1750 Pierre travels from new Orleans to http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha/m.html
Extractions: Alexander Mackenzie (Scotland, 1764?-1820) 1789: Follows the Mackenzie River to its mouth. 1793: Travels up the Peace River, crosses the Rocky Mountains, reaches the Fraser and reaches the Pacific by way of the Bella Coola River. Sir Alexander Mackenzie Alexander Mackenzie - To the Pacific Alexander Mackenzie same page in French Donald Baxter MacMillan (USA, 1874-1970) 1908-9: Member of Peary's final expedition. 1910-2: Lives in Labrador, doing ethnological research. 1913-7: Explores northwest of Axel Heiberg Island, searching for (nonexistant) Crocker Land. 1920-1954: Several more expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. 1957: Flies over the North Pole. Rear Admiral Donald B. Macmillan Donald B. MacMillan (better known as Ferdinand Magellan , also known as Fernando de Magellanes , Portugal, 1480?-1521) 1505-12: Serves in the Indies, visiting Malacca and possibly the Moluccas. 1519-22: In Spanish service, discovers the Straits of Magellan and sails through them, crosses the Pacific and reaches the Philippines. Is killed when getting involved in a local war. Other members of his expedition complete the first circumnavigation. First Circumnavigation of the Globe by Magellan 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan After dire straits an agonizing haul across the Pacific Ferdinand Magellan: The greatest voyager of them all ... Magellan, Ferdinand
Scottish Studies Foundation, University Of Guelph, Ontario Railway across Canada to forge a new nation a Dominion from sea to sea. sir John A s first Prime Minister while alexander mackenzie was the http://www.pathcom.com/~rstewart/scottish_studies_foundation.htm
Extractions: A Canadian tax receipt will be issued for the amount of the donation less the membership fee of $20.00. Scotland is a rugged land of lochs, dark rivers and mystical Highlands, a country ruled by nature. Hundreds of islands are strewn around its craggy shores a thousand miles of cliffs, rocks and spectacular beaches, moulded by wind and weather. The sea shaped and tested the passionate and hardy Scottish soul and determined much of the countrys turbulent history. From the hills and glens of that rugged land, the Scots went forth throughout the world to leave their everlasting mark. Scotland has produced scientists, explorers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, mathematicians, engineers, economists, inventors, writers, politicians and union leaders. From Canada and the United States to India, from Africa to the idyllic islands of the Caribbean, from Russia to Australia, the Scottish influence was rooted and continues to grow.
THE PEACE RIVER AND SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE their uncle, Simon McTavish, and mackenzie had connections infant princess, and askedabout sir alexanders wife Fort William, the great new Northwest Company 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.
Canada 8 sir alexander mackenzie reached the mackenzie attacked Toronto in December, wasrepulsed, fled across the former colonies of Nova Scotia and new Brunswick. http://www.aichi-gakuin.ac.jp/~jeffreyb/canada.html
Extractions: Research Seminar http://www.aichi-gakuin.ac.jp/~jeffreyb/canada.html French explorer Jacques Cartier [1491-1557], who reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1534, is generally regarded as the founder of Canada. But English seaman John Cabot [1425-1500] sighted Newfoundland 37 years earlier, in 1497, and Vikings are believed to have reached the Atlantic coast about 1000 AD (Duborg and Isted, 1996). Canadian settlement was pioneered by the French who established Quebec City ( Samuel de Champlain in 1608) and Montreal ( Sieur de Maisonneuve in1642) and declared New France a colony in 1663. Niagara Falls was discovered by French Franciscan missionary and explorer Louis Hennepin in 1678.
Famous Scots 19372000) - Architect of the new Scottish Parliament popular tenor toured the worldwith Scottish mackenzie - sir alexander (1764-1820) - Explored Canada and 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. 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. Brewster - Sir David (1781-1868) - Invented the kaleidoscope and the lenticular stereoscope.
August's Scottish Anniversaries of State for Scotland and First Minister in the new Scottish Parliament. August22 1847 Birth of sir alexander Campbell mackenzie, musician and http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/august.htm
Extractions: Noun adventurer - a person who enjoys taking risks venturer human individual mortal ... soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" argonaut - someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure adventuress - a woman adventurer cowboy - someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles) daredevil harum-scarum madcap swashbuckler ... lunatic - a reckless impetuous irresponsible person risk taker gambler - someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement hotspur - a rash or impetuous person mercenary soldier of fortune - a person hired to fight for another country than their own mountain climber mountaineer - someone who climbs mountains parachute jumper parachuter parachutist - a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute plunger speculator - someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains Casanova Casanova de Seingalt Giovanni Jacopo Casanova Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt - an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798) adventurer - someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) explorer human individual mortal ... soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
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Extractions: James Cook was born on the 27th October 1728 in the small Yorkshire town of Marton. Unlike the majority of Naval officers of the time he was not the son of rich or noble parents. In fact he was the son of a Scottish farm labourer and a Yorkshire girl. He was intelligent enough to impress his father's employer who paid for the young James Cook's schooling. After he finished school his parents apprenticed him to a grocer in Whitby, where he was not especially happy. It was there, however, that he got a taste for life on the sea. In those days the port of Whitby was a bustling place, always busy with all kinds of ships: fishing vessels, navy ships, and colliers. It was on a collier that Cook served first. In 1755, the year before the Seven Years War broke out between England and France, Cook left his ship and signed up with the Royal Navy. In the Navy James Cook worked his way up through the ranks, eventually rising to command his own vessel, unusual for an enlisted man. His first mission was to map the estuary of the St. Lawrence River prior to a naval assault on Quebec. It was those surveys that made Cook's name, along with the information he obtained from observing and recording an eclipse of the sun in 1766. The surveys were so accurate that they remained in use until the beginning of the Twentieth Century. His surveys and scientific observations, coupled with his own scientific ability and his being in the right place at the right time led to his being chosen to captain the Endeavour in 1768 on a mission to explore the great unknown of the Pacific Ocean and scientifically record everything that was encountered. It was the first of the three great voyages of discovery he led in the South Pacific.
