{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/fcaaadde-8893-426e-8fef-b232d1aa7898/manifest","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-32","metadata":[{"label":"Reference code","value":"CA RBD MSG 472-2-32"},{"label":"Notes","value":"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.|Henry Mackenzie was born in 1781 in Achnaclerach, Contin, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.\n\nHe was a seigneurial agent, fur trader, merchant, Justice of the Peace, and militia officer. Henry McKenzie, a lesser-known figure, was the brother of Roderick, Donald, and James, and a cousin of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. He moved to Lower Canada shortly before 1800 and was hired as a clerk at Grand Portage, Minnesota. In 1803, he settled close to Montreal in the seigneury of Terrebonne, which belonged to Simon McTavish. He helped him manage it and as a seigneurial agent, he established contacts with grain dealers and exporters. In 1806, he obtained a commission as Justice of the Peace for the district of Montreal. At the beginning of the War of 1812, he joined the Terrebonne battalion of the militia as a major and later was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. In 1814, he purchased 2 of the 19 shares of McTavish, McGillivrays and Co. and became one of the partners of the Michilimackinac Company. In 1815, McGillivray put him in charge of public relations for the North West Company. The same year he joined the Beaver Club. He was a member of the Scotch Presbyterian congregation in Montreal, serving as its vice-chairman in 1819 and 1822, and chairman in 1823 and 1825.\n\nIn 1815, he married Ann Bethune, daughter of John Bethune and sister of Angus Bethune. He died on June 28, 1832, in Montreal, Quebec."},{"label":"Name access points","value":["Mackenzie, Roderick, approximately 1761-1844","McKenzie, Henry, 1781-1832"]},{"label":"Place access points","value":["Terrebonne (Québec)"]},{"label":"Content summary","value":"Consists of letter from Roderick Mackenzie to Henry McKenzie."},{"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. 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