Canadian explorer (born in England) who explored the Mackenzie River and who was first to cross North American by land north of Mexico (1764-1820)

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From then until the end of the year 1901, numbers of smaller captures continued to be reported from the same region, where Plumer, Spens, Mackenzie, Rawlinson, and others were working.

Before she forgot that he was a monster who had killed Desmond MacKenzie and carried her off like a prize to be claimed.

Could it be that she and Desmond MacKenzie had never known each other?

Skirting the shores of the bay, where the Mackenzie disembogues into the Arctic Ocean, they entered the mouth of the Little Peel River.

Old Terry Mackenzie had been there one night, and he had asserted not only that war was coming, but that we would be driven to conscription to raise an army.

The messenger, a small seaman first class named Mackenzie, promptly sat down on a crate of cabbages, with a happy sigh.

The bagpipers fell silent, and the Mackenzie archers stood motionless, their bows up, the pointed chisel bodkin heads of the arrows aimed down at the dense mass of men on the road.

As s e I learned a thing or two about men at the billabong that I toward the men's quarters, Mackenzie felt the eerie silence down to her bones.

But nephew had followed nephew, and somehow Chance, along with everyone else in the Mackenzie family, found himself rocking infants, changing diapers, holding bottles, letting a dimpled little hand clutch one of his fingers while tottering first steps were made… and each one of those dimpled hands had clutched his heart, too.

The story of the Mackenzie Arctic wolf, who normally did not join together in packs, but ranged individually over large territories-except for twice a year when the days-long river of migrating caribou flowed to and from the Great Slave Lakes where they gave birth to their young, before returning south again when the winter moved in.

Mackenzie Steading was almost as old as Burdette Steading, and, unlike Burdette, the original Mackenzie family had held steading there in direct line of descent since its founding.

Mackenzie nodded curtly, well aware he'd just gotten as close to an apology as the other was capable of making, and Burdette went on.

Mackenzie didn't sound happy to agree, but he did, and Burdette shrugged.

Mackenzie muttered, but he started the car, turned the corner, then turned again, back into the direction of Center City and Emmie Cade.

Lloyd MacKenzie, our de facto consul, serves us at a discount rate.