The Scottish explorer, fur trader, and businessman Sir Alexander Mackenzie (ca. 1764-1820) was perhaps the most venturesome of all the explorers of the Northwest of North America. He was the first to travel overland to the Pacific Coast. Alexander...

As an agent of the Northwest Company trading furs in western Canada, Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1755?-1820) became the first European to cross the continent of North America at its widest part, north of the Spanish territories in Mexico. He achieved...

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacCoinnich; 1764 - March 11, 1820) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. In 1774 his family moved to New York, and then...

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE was a Liverpool-born and -trained painter whose austere abstractions of landscape motifs placed his work centrally in the modern St Ives School. A tall, urbane and scrupulous man, he came to Cornwall in 1951, participated as an active member of the Penwith...

This close reading of grammatical and narrative forms in Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages from Montreal extends the tradition of colonial discourse analysis to include linguistic analysis. The examination shows how the text's paradigm of heroic crisis resolution is supported by strategic manipulations of narrative...