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TIL, that explorer Alexander Mackenzie and crew travelled a total of 4800km by canoe and portage in 1789 to the Arctic Ocean and back from Fort Chipewyan. 4 years later, in 1793, they travelled 3700km from Fort Fork to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to find new routes for the fur trade.

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