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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.\n\nAlexander Fraser was born in 1763 in Saint-Étienne-de-Beaumont, Quebec.\n\nHe was a fur-trader. In 1787, he left for the Western prairies to trade furs. In 1799, he became one of the partners of the North West Company. In 1802, Fraser acquired from Henry Caldwell the seigneury of Rivière-du-Loup and Madawaska where he built a house. He retired from the fur-trade about 1806. In 1823, he moved with his family to Cabano (Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac) to develop the Madawaska seigniory. In 1835, he returned to Rivière-du-Loup.\n\nIn 1789, he married Angélique Meadows, a daughter of an Amerindian chief who saved his life after quarreling with his clan. After the revocation of this marriage, in 1815, he married Pauline Michaud. He died on June 14, 1837, in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec."},{"label":"Name access points","value":["Mackenzie, Roderick, approximately 1761-1844","Fraser, Alexander, 1763-1837"]},{"label":"Place access points","value":["Terrebonne (Québec)"]},{"label":"Content summary","value":"Consists of copy of letter from Roderick Mackenzie to Alexander Fraser, care of John McCord."},{"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":"3 leaves ; 33.3 x 20.8 cm"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Rare Books and Special Collections"]},{"label":"Level of description","value":["File"]},{"label":"Title","value":"Letter from Roderick Mackenzie to Alexander Fraser (copy)"},{"label":"Date","value":"14 August 1812"},{"label":"Fond","value":["Roderick Mackenzie-Masson Collection"]},{"label":"Language","value":["English","French"]}],"description":"Letter from Roderick Mackenzie to Alexander Fraser (copy)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/ffdfe801-c875-4b0c-9e6d-a832c7d0b182/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-33-000","height":8247,"width":5031,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/08843c81-7a3c-4547-ac33-325221ad0fe7/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/08843c81-7a3c-4547-ac33-325221ad0fe7","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":8247,"width":5031},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/ffdfe801-c875-4b0c-9e6d-a832c7d0b182/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/08843c81-7a3c-4547-ac33-325221ad0fe7/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/ffdfe801-c875-4b0c-9e6d-a832c7d0b182/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-33-001","height":8247,"width":5031,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/cdacee5c-80cd-4204-b1b0-677023fcdc84/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/cdacee5c-80cd-4204-b1b0-677023fcdc84","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":8247,"width":5031},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/ffdfe801-c875-4b0c-9e6d-a832c7d0b182/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/cdacee5c-80cd-4204-b1b0-677023fcdc84/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/ffdfe801-c875-4b0c-9e6d-a832c7d0b182/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-33-002","height":8247,"width":5031,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/b05c020a-556a-4fcd-8bfa-ba9878a84654/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/b05c020a-556a-4fcd-8bfa-ba9878a84654","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":8247,"width":5031},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/ffdfe801-c875-4b0c-9e6d-a832c7d0b182/canvas/_3","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/b05c020a-556a-4fcd-8bfa-ba9878a84654/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/08843c81-7a3c-4547-ac33-325221ad0fe7/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/logo"}