Alexander Mackenzie was a twenty-five-year-old fur ... Mackenzie managed to cross the Rocky Mountains and reach the Fraser River by June 17. Shuswap Indians advised him that the river was too ...

VANCOUVER—Alexander Mackenzie kept a careful record of his ... searching with native guides for a route to the river that would eventually take his name.

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).