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Mackenzie, Henry

(Encyclopedia) Mackenzie, Henry, 1745–1831, English author, b. Scotland. He had an active political and legal life, serving as comptroller of taxes for Scotland from 1804 until his death. His first…

MacKenzie, Gisele

(Marie Marguerite Louise Gisele LaFleche) singer, actressBirthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaBorn: 1/10/27

Mackenzie Phillips

Name at birth: Laura Mackenzie PhillipsMackenzie Phillps is the actress who starred as a troubled teenager in the sitcom One Day At a Time, then was fired from the show for being a troubled teenager…

Mackenzie Foy

Young actress Mackenzie Foy is best known for her significant roles in the movies The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (parts 1 and 2) and Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. She began her professional…

Mackenzie

(Encyclopedia) Mackenzie, river, c.1,120 mi (1,800 km) long, issuing from Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Arctic Ocean through a great delta. Between…

Mackenzie, Sir William

(Encyclopedia) Mackenzie, Sir William, 1849–1923, Canadian railroad builder and financier, b. Ontario. In the early 1870s he became a railroad contractor. He constructed portions of the Canadian…

Mackenzie, William Lyon

(Encyclopedia) Mackenzie, William Lyon, 1795–1861, Canadian journalist and insurgent leader, b. Scotland; grandfather of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Emigrating to Upper Canada in 1820, he published…

Arctic Red River

(Encyclopedia) Arctic Red River, c.310 mi (500 km) long, rising in the Mackenzie Mts. of W Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Mackenzie River. At its mouth are a post of…