Father: John Roderick Mckenzie (1846 - 1919). Died May 16, 1919 at age 72 at Roger's Hill, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
His Parents: Roderick McKenzie (1801-1865) born Ross Shire, Scotland, and Marion Stewart (Stuart) (1803-1887) born Mount Thom, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. They lived on the McKean (or MacKeen) Road in Rogers Hill.

Roderick and Marion died at Roger's Hill, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada but were buried at Caladonia Cemetery at Salt Springs, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

Mother: Anny or Annie (born MacKenzie) MacKenzie (Dec 17, 1850 - February 7, 1942). Died at age 91 at Roger's Hill, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Her Parents: Colin & Ellen (born McLeod) MacKenzie of Roger's Hill, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Ellen MacKenzie (born McLeod) was a widow in 1873. She was born in Scotland circa 1789. Ellen McKenzie, age 84, died on Nov. 7, 1873. She was the daughter of William and Annie.

John R. MacKenzie and Anny MacKenzie married in 1873 or 1874. The difference in the dates is from the following birth registration sources.

Ellen Merran MacKenzie was born December 8, 1874 to John R. MacKenzie and Anny Mackenzie of Four Mile Brook and m. 1873.

Robert Fairbern MacKenzie was born August 7, 1876 to John MacKenzie and Anny Mckenzie of Four Mile Brook m. 1874. This would be Colin's brother Roderick Fairburn McKenzie. His given name was probably changed at some point after the birth registration. The difference between the"Fairbern" spelling on his birth registration, and the "Fairburn" spelling on his headstone, is probably just a phonetic spelling issue. He died in November 1956.

Roderick "Rod or Rodney" Fairburn MacKenzie married Alice Orena Dorman. She was born in Nova Scotia on January 25, 1887 according to a British Columbia Centennial '71 "Pioneer Medallion" application she completed on October 5, 1970. They had one son, Colin Lawrence MacKenzie (July 22, 1915-April 29, 1960). She also indicated that she first arrived in British Columbia in December 1907.

Colin Seaforth MacKenzie's other sibligs include:

Alexander Stuart b. July 27, 1881 d. March 1922
Margaret Mary b. May 21, 1883 d. August 1904
Christena J. West (Born MacKenzie) b. at Rogers Hill June 14, 1886 d. February 19, 1952. She first married Harry James Booty on March 28, 1917 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Marriage witnessed by Roderick Fairburn MacKenzie.
John George b. March 8, 1889 d. October 18, 1965
Hector Ronald b. July 13, 1891 d. August 1976. m. Maimie Dorman (1895-1993)
Norman Cedric b. March 11, 1889 d. 1985

I (Robert Stoddard) was told by my mother (Barbara Lois Bailey Stoddard) that Colin S. MacKenzie, one of the law men who was killed by John Turnow in March 1912, was a cousin of her mother (my grandmother, Margaret Matilda Fraser Bailey). I always assumed this was because my mother's grandmother's maiden name was also MacKenzie (Jessie Ann MacKenzie Fraser). However, I have found no evidence of a family connection through marriage to the family of Colin S. MacKenzie. I believe, however, that my great-grandparents (Simon Roderick Fraser and Jessie Ann (MacKenzie) Fraser) and my grandmother (Margaret Matilda (Fraser) Bailey) knew Colin S. MacKenzie well. They all came from the same area of Pictou County, Nova Scotia and arrived in Aberdeen around the same time (the Fraser's arrived in 1898 and Colin MacKenzie arrived in 1899). The 1900 Census shows Colin S. MacKenzie immigrated to Aberdeen from Pictou County, Nova Scotia at the age of 20 in 1899 and after the arrival of the Fraser family.

The attached photo shows him with other fishernmen displaying their catches in the photography studio of Charles R. Pratsch in Aberdeen circa 1900. The photo was clearly taken prior to the severe injury he incurred in 1903. The link to this photo is:

http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cpratsch/id/428

Colin McKenzie (Note: He sometimes spelled his name "MacKenzie" but mostly used the abbreviated spelling of "McKenzie") at first made his living in Gray's Harbor County (then Chehalis County) possibly as a logger. He became injured in the Great Aberdeen Fire of 1903 on October 16, 1903. In the Aberdeen Herald newspaper of October 19, 1903, they reported on the front page, " Colin McKenzie, of the Union Transfer Co., was caught by the falling wall of the Eagles dance hall and seriousy injured. He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where it was found that his spine was so injured as to cause fear for his recovery."

On November 6, 1902, at the age of 23, and prior to the injury he sustained in the fire, Colin S. McKenzie of Melbourne, Washington (south of the Chehalis River along Route 107 today) applied for a license to marry a Miss Elta Debenham, age 18, of Melbourne, Washington. Apparently his intention to marry never came to fruition and Colin remained a bachelor for the remaining 10 years of his life.

After his injury in the fire, Colin MacKenzie then took up the trade of photography through training and working with Charles R. Pratsch. In the 1910 Census for Aberdeen, Colin MacKenzie, age 30, is listed as living next door to the well-known Grays Harbor photograher Charles Pratsch, age 52, and his family. Colin eventually started his own photography studio in Aberdeen circa 1908. It was around this same time that he was appointed to the position of game warden by Sherriff Payette and was considered "the best officers the county had ever had." He was then promoted to deputy sherriff and made a name for himself in 1911 by tracking down a fugitive killer all the way to British Columbia, Canada and returning him to Montesano, the county seat, to face justice. He hoped for the same outcome when he started tracking another fugitive killer, John Turnow, in the spring of 1912. He and another deputy were lured into an ambush by the cunning Turnow and murdered on March 8, 1912. John Turnow was finally tracked down and killed in the Wynoochee area (near present day Wynoochee Dam) on April 16, 1913 by deputies seeking revenge as much as justice.