In 1802 the Edinburgh Review called attention to Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793 (1801) in a way that...

Alexander Mackenzie (1822-1892) was a Scottish-born Canadian political leader. He was head of the Liberal party and the first Liberal prime minister of Canada. On Jan. 28, 1822, Alexander Mackenzie was born near Dunkeld. His parents were poor, and...

Alexander Mackenzie Born 1764, Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland Died March 12, 1820, Scotland When searching for a river route from the Canadian interior to the Pacific Ocean, Sir Alexander Mackenzie canoed through Alberta and British Columbia. He...

1762-1820 Scottish Explorer Alexander Mackenzie was a trader who explored northwestern Canada in an effort to open up new territories to the fur trade. In his explorations he traced the 1,100-mile (1,770-km) course of the river now named after him from...

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...