Talk:Alexander MacKenzie
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[edit] Capitalization of K in MacKenzie
The "K" in MacKenzie ought to be capitalised.
- Why? Adam Bishop 05:50, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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- Look at the way it's written on the stone. 145.64.134.241 06:22, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Well, people during that era were not always consistent about how the name was rendered. The DoCB article prefers the "Mackenzie" spelling, I think we should stick with that. Fawcett5 12:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Because Mac means "Son of" + the name, in this case a bastardisation of "Coinneach", meaning Kenneth. No one writes "kenneth", unless they are e. e. cummings --MacRusgail 18:26, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- A name like that in lower case is common even today, and was certainly common then, e.g. James Macpherson. Mackenzie himself is known universally in reputable texts with his name in that form, and it's the form used in his book, Voyages from Montreal. (Look it up on Worldcat). Whoever changed the title on this did it without warrant. As Fawcett5 pointed out, a screen shot of a stone carving is not an acceptable basis when discussing a person who lived when spellings were not so rigid as now and for whom a mountain of citations and practice exists for the other way. 69.227.127.194 23:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- I've removed "(unfortunately including an erroneous capital K in his last name)" because it implies the later inscribers were the ones that introduced the capital K, not Mackenzie himself. The sources I've seen do not say who spelled it with a capital K. -kotra (talk) 21:46, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Date of Birth earlier?
I was reading Lewis by Donald Macdonald and it says Alexander Mackenzie crossed in 1774 aged 12 giving a date of birth of 1761/2, googling for Alexander Mackenzie a few pages record his DOB as 1762?
Yeah, i read a book about Alexander Mackenzie and it said he crossed to North America in 1776???
i am trying to find the explorer, NOT the prime minsiter. or are they both?
[edit] Which Bentinck Arm?
In Alexander Mackenzie it says the end of his westward journey was at South Bentinck Arm for which there is no article. Dean Channel and North Bentinck Arm say it was at North Bentinck Arm. Is there a source that resolves this? --KenWalker | Talk 11:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
