Alexander Mackenzie - MSN Encarta: "Sir Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) (1764?-1820), Canadian explorer and fur trader, born in Stornoway, Lewis with Harris Island, Scotland. He immigrated (1774) with his family to New York City and in 1779 moved to Montréal, where he joined the fur-trading firm later known as the North West Company. In 1789 he set out from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca for his first journey of exploration in northwest Canada. He explored from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean by traveling on the great river that now bears his name. Four years later, on a second expedition, he ascended the Peace River, crossed the Rocky Mountains, followed the Fraser River and several tributaries, and then struck overland to the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie was the first man to explore the North American continent north of Mexico on an overland journey. He published his journals of the expeditions in 1801. He was knighted a year later."
Pierre Roy, was at Detroit before Cadillac (Pontiac was a Typo) and he married a Miami named Margaret Ouabankikoue
Kevin Lajiness 1 min · Linwood, NJ · It was Said That Pierre Roy, My Ancestor, was at Detroit before Cadillac (Pontiac was a typo) and he married a Miami named Margaret Ouabankikoue, this was told to me by my father as a child and the marriage was confirmed to me much later in life , now i have found the evidence that shows he was at Detroit before Cadillac. From the evidence below it is clear to me that the father of the Detroit Pierre Roy traveled to the Detroit area more than once and probably brought his son, who would of been old enough to get involved romantically, my father did mention Belle Isle but said "our people came from the Island just south of there" This is further substantiated by the record of M. Louis Joliet (the first explorer who passed up Detroit River) his account also below "1668. — Claude Dablon and Jaques Marquette established a permanent mission at Sault St. Marie, ...
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