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The exact date of
Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s birth is not accurately known, although it
is supposed he was born at Inverness, Scotland, about 1755. He came
to North America at an early age and obtained employment in the
counting-house of Messrs. Gregory and Co., a connexion of the
North-West Fur Company. It was while he was with this company that
he obtained the experience and knowledge necessary to his profession
of a fur-trader, long before he undertook his arduous and dangerous
expeditions to the far North. He was soon to distinguish himself.
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