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McKenzie was a Scot by birth, a Canadian immigrant as a teenager. He became a clerk for the North West Company, learning the fur business.Losing his job when his employer was merged into the Hudson's Bay Company, McKenzie traveled to St. Louis in 1822, applied for US citizenship and joined the Columbia Fur Company, heading it by the mid-1820s.
The company was founded in 1821, when the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company merged, and a large number of fur traders found themselves out of job. The founders, Joseph Renville, Kenneth McKenzie, William Laidlaw and Daniel Lamont were all British subjects, so they arranged for the company's activities to be officially carried out by William P. Tilton & Co., a New York company ...
The fur trade in Montana was a major period in the area's economic history from about 1800 to the 1850s. ... Scotsman Kenneth McKenzie, ...
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is a partial reconstruction of the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri River from 1829 to 1867. The fort site is about two miles from the confluence of the Missouri River and its tributary, the Yellowstone River, on the Dakota side of the North Dakota/Montana border, 25 miles from Williston, North Dakota.
Kenneth McKenzie (fur trader) (died 1861), fur trader in the upper Missouri River valley Kenneth McKenzie (rugby league) or Ken McKenzie (1926–1998), Australian rugby league footballer Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, 6th Baronet (1832–1900), British diplomat and landowner
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Pages in category "American Fur Company people" ... Kenneth McKenzie (fur trader) Martin McLeod; Michel Branamour Menard; William Morrison (trader) P. Jerry Potts; R.
Pages in category "Canadian fur traders" ... Kenneth McKenzie (fur trader) Donald McLean (fur trader) John McLean (explorer) Alexander Roderick McLeod;