Donald Mackenzie (June 15, 1783 – January 20, 1851) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer, fur trader and Governor of the Red River Colony from 1821 to 1834.
Early life
Born in Scotland, Mackenzie emigrated to Canada about 1800. He is related to several other distinguished MacKenzies in Canadian history. He and two or three of his brothers became involved in the fur trade and were engaged with the North West Company. In 1810, he left the employ of the North West Company to become a partner in the Pacific Fur Company (PFC), financed solely by John Jacob Astor.
Pacific Fur Company
Mackenzie traveled west from St. Louis, Missouri with an expedition of fellow PFC employees to the Pacific Northwest. The group experienced hard times in southern Idaho, and divided. Mackenzie’s fraction consisted of twelve total and struck north, eventually found the Salmon River and Clearwater River. They proceeded down the lower Snake River and Columbia River by canoe, and were the first of the Overland Astorians to reach Fort Astoria, on January 18, 1812.
Don or Donald McKenzie (also Mackenzie or MacKenzie) may refer to:
Donald Kenneth Andrew MacKenzie (30 November 1916 - 12 June 1940, Edinburgh) was a Scottish international rugby union player, who played for Scotland twice at number eight in the 1939 Home Nations Championship. He was the first Scottish rugby internationalist to be killed in World War II.
His home club was Edinburgh Wanderers.
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The Hon. Donald Mackenzie, styled Lord Mackenzie, (22 June 1818 – 19 May 1875) was a Senator of the College of Justice, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Early life
Donald Mackenzie was born 22 June 1818, the only son of Capt. Donald Mackenzie, of the 21st Fusiliers and Margaret Robina Jamieson, daughter of the Rev. John Jamieson, DD, author of the Scottish National Dictionary. He studied at the Loretto School and the University of Edinburgh. He originally studied medicine, and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mackenzie never practised as a physician, instead, yielding to his mother's wishes, he took up the study of the law.
Legal career
Mackenzie was admitted as an advocate to the Scottish bar in 1842. He was Advocate Depute from 1854 to 1858, and again from 1859 to 1861. He served as the Sheriff of Fifeshire from 1861 to 1870. On 16 March 1870, he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Session in Scotland, under the name Lord Mackenzie.