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WE GOT THERE FIRST!
In: Maclean's, Jg. 116 (2003-06-23), Heft 25, S. 45
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U.S. President George W. Bush seems determined to define the 21st century by American heroism. As one of those ornery Canadians convinced that heroes are forged by the grace of character meeting the force of circumstance, and not the colour of your passport, I wish to enter a small protest against this summer's celebration of U.S. army captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's cross-country trek. Commissioned by former President Thomas Jefferson, anxious to nail down America's jurisdiction over the territory on the other side of the mountains, the well-stocked foray numbered 45 superbly trained soldiers and a Newfoundland pup. The mouth of the Columbia River (situated on the coast of what is now Oregon) had already been charted by Capt. George Vancouver, the British mariner, on his way to the eventual discovery of the site of the city that bears his name. Their march deserves a mild pat on the back, but as any casual student of Canadian history ought to know, the first to cross North America (north of Mexico) were not Lewis and Clark but Alexander Mackenzie, that doughty, Scottish-Canadian explorer who accomplished much more with much less, a dozen years earlier. (The best reprise of Mackenzie's remarkable life and harrowing journeys is "First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America and the Opening of the Continent," by the Vancouver geographer Derek Hayes.
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WE GOT THERE FIRST!
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Newman, Peter C. |
Zeitschrift: | Maclean's, Jg. 116 (2003-06-23), Heft 25, S. 45 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2003 |
Medientyp: | serialPeriodical |
ISSN: | 0024-9262 (print) |
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