Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.

Mackenzie involved himself in politics almost from the moment he arrived in Canada.

Mackenzie Building at the Royal Military College of Canada

* The Mackenzie building, and the use of the Mackenzie tartan by the bands at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

Mackenzie chose the following jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the Governor General:

* 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1917 )

In Canada, a similar situation took place in 1925 wherein Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy appointed Arthur Meighen after William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to resign the premiership ( known as the King-Byng Affair ).

He was in 1946 appointed as governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Vincent Massey in 1952.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946

Seated: Stanley Baldwin ( Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom ), King George V, William Lyon Mackenzie King ( Prime Minister of Canada | Canada ).

* 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.

Geographical features include Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada, and Great Slave Lake, the deepest body of water in Canada at, as well as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay " To the People of Upper Canada ", published in his newspaper The Constitution.

Accordingly, rebellion in favour of responsible government rose in both regions ; Louis-Joseph Papineau led the Lower Canada Rebellion and William Lyon Mackenzie led the Upper Canada Rebellion.

The Volunteer failed in September 1841, and in June 1842, Mackenzie moved back to New York City.

* Alexander Mackenzie ( civil servant ) ( 1842 – 1902 ), British colonial official in Burma

In 1842, aboard Somers in the African Squadron, commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie ordered the arrest of three crewmen on November 26 and 27 who were plotting to take control of the ship.

USS Somers was launched by the New York Navy Yard on April 16, 1842, and was commissioned on 12 May 1842, with Mackenzie in command.

On November 26, 1842, Mackenzie arrested Midshipman Philip Spencer, the son of Secretary of War John Canfield Spencer, for inciting mutiny.

In 1903, the federal government and Grand Trunk Railway ( GTR ) were seeking a 2nd transcontinental railway for Canada and approached Mackenzie and Mann to seek their co-operation.

The agreement collapsed, however, following a scandal, and Mackenzie King approached the Governor-General, Baron Byng of Vimy, to seek dissolution of the Parliament.

Mackenzie resigned as Labour Minister on October 20, 1994, and did not seek re-election in 1995.

Mackenzie King wrote in his diary on 8 December 1936 he felt that, for Edward, " any sense of right or wrong has been largely obliterated by the jazz of life he has led for years ", and later, upon receiving news of Edward's final decision to abdicate, wrote " if that is the kind of man he is it is better he should not be longer on the Throne.

In response to an urgent telegram from Mulock, Mackenzie King turned down a better paid academic position at Harvard to become Editor of the Labour Gazette and subsequently the first Deputy Minister of Labour.

: For a visual chronology of King's life, see Life of William Lyon Mackenzie King at Wikimedia Commons.

Two surgeries by Doctor Wilder Penfield of the Montreal Neurological Institute were insufficient to save him, and his death on 11 February was eulogised on the radio by Mackenzie King: " In the passing of His Excellency, the people of Canada have lost one of the greatest and most revered of their Governors General, and a friend who, from the day of his arrival in this country, dedicated his life to their service.

In 1900, Mulock established the Department of Labour, bringing William Lyon Mackenzie King into public life as his Deputy Minister.

But, in 1925 he resigned from the corporate life he was unsuited for and, as a friend of Mackenzie King, by then the Prime Minister of Canada, Massey was appointed on September 16, by Governor General the Viscount Byng of Vimy, to the King's Privy Council and was subsequently made a minister without portfolio in the Cabinet.

A film about the life of Benny Lynch, directed by John Mackenzie and starring Robert Carlyle, was made in 2003.

While William Lyon Mackenzie was not a religious man himself, he remained a proponent of separation of church and state for his entire life.

As at many points in his life, Mackenzie continued to suffer from financial difficulties.

" In later life however, Mackenzie advocated annexation of Canada by the United States

Mackenzie King was later to say that this testimony was the turning point in Junior's life, restoring the reputation of the family name ; it also heralded a new era of industrial relations in the country ( see below ).

His father had assumed the additional surname of Wortley as heir to his mother, taking later also that of Mackenzie ( which his son in later life discarded ) as heir to his great-uncle James Stuart-Mackenzie of Rosehaugh.

Edward Elgar played in the violins at the première and later remarked that meeting Mackenzie was " the event of my musical life ".

His books were mainly about Scotland, and his romanticising style incurred the displeasure of Compton Mackenzie, who caricatured him in some of his novels ( perhaps unjustly so as MacGregor was forced to be critically realistic about certain aspects of life on the west coast, in his book The western Isles ).

In the desert terrain of the Mackenzie Plains, Lake Alexandrina is considered as an “ oasis of life ”.

After living in the US in order to avoid arrest in Canada, Mackenzie eventually became dissatisfied with the American republican system and gave up plans for revolution in the British North American provinces, though he theorized, near the end of his life, on Canadian annexation into the United States, should enough people in the former country become disillusioned with responsible government.

Although Mackenzie was completely exonerated at the court of inquiry and at a subsequent court martial ( by a split vote ), the controversial incident ( known as the " Somers Affair ") colored the remainder of his life.

* Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell, 1803-1848 ( 1840 ) The life of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry.

( Mackenzie based the geography of these islands on Barra and Eriskay respectively, but in real life they are both Catholic islands ).

The poem concludes with the frustration of the speaker with his dog, expressed as the speaker states: “ In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care ” ( Mackenzie 14 ).

The students belong to the same house for their school life and belong to either Connolly-Green ( formerly Doigs / Lawrences ), Dyson-Red ( formerly Mackenzies / Jethas ), Goddard-Blue ( formerly Dodkins / Crocketts ) or Soper-Yellow ( formerly Fords / Patricks ); all are named after previous headmasters or headmistresses ( formerly heads of houses, Mr Doig, Miss F Mackenzie, Mr Dodkins and Mrs Ford ), with the exception of the last, in honour of distinguished Old Askean Donald Soper.