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.
Sir Alexander MacKenzie was a Scottish-Canadian explorer renowned for being the first European to navigate the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean and the first to cross North America north of Mexico.
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