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He was stationed in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798 and he commanded assaults on the forts at Abukir and Rosetta (Rash?d), Egypt, in 1801. Promoted to major-general in 1808, he participated in expeditions to Netherlands, Spain, and France. He received several honours for his services, a Knight Companion (KB) in 1813, and a Knight Grand Cross (GCB) in 1815 when he was also created Baron Dalhousie in the peerage of the UK. In 1830, he was promoted to general. After the war, he embarked on a career as a colonial administrator. From 1816 to 1820 he was Governor of Nova Scotia, where he created Dalhousie College, Nova Scotia's first college, which grew into Dalhousie University. He was also Governor-General of British North America from 1820 to 1828 and later Commander-in-Chief in India.\n\nIn 1805, he married Christian Broun. He died on March 21, 1838, in Dalhousie Castle, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, Scotland.|Roderick Mackenzie (c. 1761-1844) who had been a partner in the North-West Company, conceived the idea of writing a survey and history of the Canadian North West.  In 1806 he had printed a circular letter that he sent out requesting information for his survey. He was interested in geography, longitude and latitude, mountains, rivers, the weather, the soil; flora and fauna and methods of hunting; the First Nations and their history, culture, morals and government; and the history of the fur trade.  And his letter included a long list of vocabulary as well. All these were to serve as hints to his informants.  Mackenzie had as his model The Statistical Account of Scotland published in the 1790s in twenty-one volumes by Sir John Sinclair.  One example of the responses to Mackenzie's circular letter is the series of letters George Keith in the Mackenzie River Department sent him from 1807-1817 in which he described the country, the climate and the inhabitants. He also included a vocabulary list and First Nation stories including a creation myth."},{"label":"Name access points","value":["Dalhousie, George Ramsay, Earl of, 1770-1838","Mackenzie, Roderick, approximately 1761-1844"]},{"label":"Place access points","value":["Québec (Québec)"]},{"label":"Content summary","value":"Consists of a letter to unnamed recipient, probably Roderick Mackenzie. Discusses a number of recently arrived immigrants to Canada from Scotland, along with their occupations."},{"label":"Provenance","value":"These records were accumulated by Roderick Mackenzie and eventually inherited by the husband of Mackenzie's granddaughter, Louis-Rodrigue Masson. The were kept in the Masson family into the 1990s at which point they were purchased by a Montreal-area book collector. They were at some point sold to bookseller Warren Baker."},{"label":"Physical description","value":"2 pages"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Rare Books and Special Collections"]},{"label":"Level of description","value":["File"]},{"label":"Source of title","value":"Title from content of file."},{"label":"Title","value":"Letter from Lord Dalhousie (probabaly to Roderick Mackenzie)"},{"label":"Date","value":"4 May 1827"},{"label":"Fond","value":["Roderick Mackenzie-Masson Collection"]},{"label":"Language","value":["English","French"]}],"description":"Letter from Lord Dalhousie (probabaly to Roderick Mackenzie)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/0ea60470-af78-4d8a-920a-c3fce53680c4/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-10-000","height":4917,"width":3074,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/31f72d27-4c37-4990-8917-bce8ebff6ced/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/31f72d27-4c37-4990-8917-bce8ebff6ced","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":4917,"width":3074},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/0ea60470-af78-4d8a-920a-c3fce53680c4/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/31f72d27-4c37-4990-8917-bce8ebff6ced/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/0ea60470-af78-4d8a-920a-c3fce53680c4/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-10-001","height":4375,"width":5703,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/18562f36-dd82-49b5-bfc0-85cf984005d9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/18562f36-dd82-49b5-bfc0-85cf984005d9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":4375,"width":5703},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/0ea60470-af78-4d8a-920a-c3fce53680c4/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/18562f36-dd82-49b5-bfc0-85cf984005d9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/0ea60470-af78-4d8a-920a-c3fce53680c4/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-10-002","height":4375,"width":5703,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/cde059a8-0e7a-45f9-8b71-c1c327c7fa36/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/cde059a8-0e7a-45f9-8b71-c1c327c7fa36","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":4375,"width":5703},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/0ea60470-af78-4d8a-920a-c3fce53680c4/canvas/_3","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/cde059a8-0e7a-45f9-8b71-c1c327c7fa36/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/31f72d27-4c37-4990-8917-bce8ebff6ced/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/logo"}