Mackenzie Reaches the Arctic Ocean
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution, Discovery, Exploration, Geography
- Subcategories: Ships, Naval History, Explorers, Frontier, Pioneers
- Curriculum: British History, 18th Century European History, American Indian History, Canadian History
- Geographical Location: Canada
- Date: July 22, 1793
Article abstract: A search for an inland water route to the Pacific Ocean leads to the Arctic coast of North America.
Summary of Event
At the close of the eighteenth century, three hundred years after European discovery of the North American continent, very little was known of the geography of its western reaches. Both commercial interests and empire builders wanted to find a water route across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The British government had offered a prize of twenty thousand pounds to the first person to discover such a...
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