Fort Mandan (winter) — John Ordway: January 19, 1805

Go down the River to Bring home the meat ab* 30 m1 ab this place.
1 Frangois Larocque, whose description of Fort Mandan is quoted ante,
173, note 1, and Charles McKenzie. Larocque was a clerk employed by the
North West Company at Fort Assiniboine, from which place he led the present
expedition, composed of four voyagers, in addition to McKenzie and himself,
to the Mandan towns of the upper Missouri. From June to October, 1805,
he was engaged on a tour to the Rocky Mountains. The journal he kept on
this expedition, edited by L. J. Burpee, was printed by the Canadian govern-
ment in 1910, as No. 3 of the Publications of the Canadian Archives. Dissatis-
fied with the life led in the Indian trade he left the Northwest and established
himself in business at Montreal. A granddaughter became the wife of Alderic
Ouimet, speaker of the House of Commons.
McKenzie continued in the Indian trade throughout his active life. In
1806 Alexander Henry found him again on the upper Missouri, at the chief
Grosventre village. In 1821 he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company, and con-
tinued in its service until 1846. He died in 1854.
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