History
Seeking a route to the Pacific Ocean, fur trader and explorer Alexander Mackenzie and his party of 9 men, traveling in a frail bark canoe, portaged nearby in May 1793 to avoid the Peace River Canyon. On July 20 he reached tidewater. By this achievement he became the first European to cross the Rockies and continental North America.
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