Governor of The Red River Colony
With the merger of the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, in 1821, Donald Mackenzie was appointed Governor of the Red River Colony. He left the Pacific Northwest and moved to Fort Garry for a decade, serving as Governor of the area including most of present-day Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, Canada.
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