Biography
He was born on May 26, 1867 in the township of Ramsay (now part of the Town of Mississippi Mills), in Lanark County, Ontario, and his childhood friend was James Naismith, the inventor of Basketball, with whom he attended McGill University. As a child, McKenzie did not regard himself as an athlete, saying,
"Looking back with an eye of memory I see a rather delicate child, sensitive at being called pale-faced, a roamer of the woods and fields with a mind filled with romance that Sir Walter Scott and Fenimore Cooper alone could instill, going unwillingly to school, distracted by thoughts of the Deerslayer..."
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