Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume V

No. 59.

Brigadier-General Canby to the Assistant Adjutant-General at San Francisco.

[Extract.]

Headquarters Department of the Columbia, Portland, Oregon, April 2, 1872.

Sir: * * * * * * *

I am informed that the vessels of the Hudson Bay Company, on their upward-bound trips, usually passed through Rosario Straits, because their business required them to touch at the in-shore stations of the company but almost invariably through the canal de Haro in returning to Vancouver.Why the so-called Rosario strait was used.

ED. R. S. CANBY, Brigadier-General Commanding.