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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":["Mackenzie, Roderick Charles","Mackenzie, Roderick, approximately 1761-1844"]},{"label":"Place access points","value":["Montréal (Québec)"]},{"label":"Content summary","value":"Includes one letter (in French) to the Hon. Roderick Mackenzie from his son, Roderick-Charles. Letter discusses Mr. Gibbs' loss (a fire burned down his premises), arson in New York and the southern cities in the Union, and provides interesting commentary on social life in Montreal."},{"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":"1 folded sheet ; 25 cm x 20.8 cm"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Rare Books and Special Collections"]},{"label":"Level of description","value":["File"]},{"label":"Source of title","value":"Title based on content of file."},{"label":"Title","value":"Letter to Roderick Mackenzie from his son"},{"label":"Date","value":"24 January 1840"},{"label":"Fond","value":["Roderick Mackenzie-Masson Collection"]},{"label":"Language","value":["English","French"]}],"description":"Letter to Roderick Mackenzie from his son","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/1571c0c8-0d3d-4982-afab-ebe31c8b2d17/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-61-000","height":6131,"width":4932,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/d649b88b-4bcc-4f00-bdc5-a541991b916f/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/d649b88b-4bcc-4f00-bdc5-a541991b916f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6131,"width":4932},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/1571c0c8-0d3d-4982-afab-ebe31c8b2d17/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/d649b88b-4bcc-4f00-bdc5-a541991b916f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/1571c0c8-0d3d-4982-afab-ebe31c8b2d17/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-61-001","height":6131,"width":4932,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/dae1dc25-e113-4d08-946a-f631dc080897/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/dae1dc25-e113-4d08-946a-f631dc080897","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6131,"width":4932},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/1571c0c8-0d3d-4982-afab-ebe31c8b2d17/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/dae1dc25-e113-4d08-946a-f631dc080897/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/1571c0c8-0d3d-4982-afab-ebe31c8b2d17/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-61-002","height":4932,"width":6131,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/42e79793-d8ac-4a2f-aefe-b5a6ddd24641/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/42e79793-d8ac-4a2f-aefe-b5a6ddd24641","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":4932,"width":6131},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/1571c0c8-0d3d-4982-afab-ebe31c8b2d17/canvas/_3","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/42e79793-d8ac-4a2f-aefe-b5a6ddd24641/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/d649b88b-4bcc-4f00-bdc5-a541991b916f/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/logo"}