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Setting out from Fort Providence in August 1820, the expedition reached Winter Lake where they built their winter base, Fort Enterprise. Leaving the fort in June 1821, they travelled to the mouth of the Coppermine River, where Wentzel and his party turned back, carrying dispatches and equipment for transmission to England. After the expedition, Wentzel served the amalgamated Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Simpson between 1822 and 1824, at Fort Chipewyan between 1824 and 1825 and finally at Mingan on the Lower St. Lawrence between 1827 and 1829 before retiring. He died in 1832.|Lieut. John MacKenzie was born in 1794 in Athabasca, Alberta, one of nine children of Roderick Mackenzie (1761-1844) and a Native Chipewyan or Cree mother (1775-?).\n\nHe was a wealthy merchant, entrepreneur, and Postmaster of Terrebonne.\n\nHe married Catherine Oldham of Montreal, Quebec. He died in 1871 in Terrebonne, Quebec."},{"label":"Name access points","value":["Wentzel, Willard Ferdinand, approximately 1780-1832","Mackenzie, John, 1794-1871"]},{"label":"Place access points","value":["Fort William (Ont.)"]},{"label":"Content summary","value":"File contains a letter addressed to John Mackenzie from William Wentzel. Wentzel gives news of business at Fort William, of traders both present and away, and of friends. He ends off by apologizing for not for not having visited Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie at Terrebonne when he was 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 ; 25.2 cm x 20.5 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 John Mackenzie"},{"label":"Date","value":"11 July 1813"},{"label":"Fond","value":["Roderick Mackenzie-Masson Collection"]},{"label":"Language","value":["English","French"]}],"description":"Letter to John Mackenzie","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-80-000","height":6174,"width":4946,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/bbd4e96b-1561-4770-a787-bfa862865645/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/bbd4e96b-1561-4770-a787-bfa862865645","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6174,"width":4946},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/bbd4e96b-1561-4770-a787-bfa862865645/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-80-001","height":6174,"width":4946,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/7fdf278b-d110-40b4-bc5f-bfba2d860c7e/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/7fdf278b-d110-40b4-bc5f-bfba2d860c7e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6174,"width":4946},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/7fdf278b-d110-40b4-bc5f-bfba2d860c7e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-80-002","height":6174,"width":4946,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/5fedbcef-1b83-49bf-8805-56f68d60213f/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/5fedbcef-1b83-49bf-8805-56f68d60213f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6174,"width":4946},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_3","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/5fedbcef-1b83-49bf-8805-56f68d60213f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-80-003","height":2473,"width":3087,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/fc99b1de-23a8-4843-9952-fc458c9b6555/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/fc99b1de-23a8-4843-9952-fc458c9b6555","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":2473,"width":3087},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/400c0dd4-dccd-4d66-afbb-7ff841144c6d/canvas/_4","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/fc99b1de-23a8-4843-9952-fc458c9b6555/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/bbd4e96b-1561-4770-a787-bfa862865645/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/logo"}