What is recorded here
This grey commemorative plaque records: Sir Alexander MacKenzie. The explorer who was the first white man to follow the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean and the first to cross the continent of North America North of Mexico. Was born in the year (?) 1763 in a house which stood on this site.
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Photo credits
- Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
- Gordon Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Stephen Branley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Carol Walker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, au.pinterest.com
- Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.com.au
- Maker not stated on source page, www.youtube.com
- Angus Peck, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- David Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.isle-of-lewis.com
- JJM, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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