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Map of Mackenzie across the continent

Title: A Map of Mackenzie's Track, from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean in 1793
Author: Mackenzie, Alexander
Description: Copper-engraved map. 56x61 cm. (22x23¾").A map of the route taken by Alexander Mackinzie from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca in northern Alberta, south west to the Pacific Ocean near Princess Royal Island via the Peace and Fraser rivers. Combined with his other famous expedition, which reached the Arctic Sea along the river that now bears his name, he became the first white man to cross the North American continent north of Mexico. His achievement finally dispelled the hope that a Northwest Passage to Hudson Bay existed. Apart from a vague coastal outline the map only shows what was mapped by the expedition, and so only shows sparse detail. Wheat, Transmississippi, 251, "at once questions began to be raised about the now patent inadequacies of all prior maps of the American Far West".
Heading: zzgPlace Published: London
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Date Published: 1801