Mackenzie definition

(person) 1763?-1820; Cdn. explorer, born in Scotland.
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(person) 1795-1861; Cdn. journalist & insurgent leader, born in Scotland.
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(place) River in W Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing from the Great Slave Lake northwest into the Beaufort Sea: 1,079 mi (1,738 km)
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(place) Former district of Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Mackenzie Sentence Examples

  • This was the object of Dr Leichhardt's expedition in 1844, which proceeded first along the banks of the Dawson and the Mackenzie, tributaries of the Fitzroy river, in Queensland.

  • This tree, the "liard" of the Canadian voyageur, abounds on many of the river sides of the northwestern plains; it occurs in the neighbourhood of the Great Slave Lake and along the Mackenzie River, and forms much of the driftwood of the Arctic coast.

  • With the same object Alexander Mackenzie, with a party of Canadians, set out from Fort Chippewyan on the 3rd of June 1789, and descending the great river which now bears the explorer's name reached the Arctic sea.

  • It is the centre of Bosnian education, containing the celebrated orphanage founded in 1869 by Miss Irby and Miss Mackenzie (afterwards Lady Sebright); the Scheriat-Schule, which derives its name from the Turkish code or scheri, and is maintained by the state for Moslem law-students; a gymnasium, a technical institute and a teachers' training-college.

  • The Great Bear river discharges its waters into the Mackenzie river.

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