IN PIONEER’S STEPS.
SCOTSWOMAN ON ARCTIC TRAIL. Mrs C. Kirkland Vesey lias gone to Canada from Scotland to follow the trail which was blazed to the Arctic Ocean by her great-great-uncle, Alexander MacKenzie, 147 years ago. She will travel up the broad reaches of the Mackenzie Elver, named after her relative, who in 1789 was the first white man to push through Canada's North-West. Four years later, amid masses of floating ice, he came out upon the Arctic Ocean. Mrs Vesey took with her voluminous notes from the diaries of the explorer. “During my trip through the rivers of the North Country I’m going to refer to these constantly,” she said. “I shall really be seeing things with his eyes.” She expressed particular anxiety to see the great rock where MacKenzie painted his initials so many years ago. Mrs Vesey will travel by train to Waterways, in Northern Alberta, and from this point her journey will be by river steamer through, the North-West Territories to Aklayik. When she returns to Scotland she will have covered 12,000 miles through the tree-clad land of silence where Alexander MacKenzie pioneered.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 247, 31 July 1936, Page 7
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