Letter
CANBY, Brigadier-General Commanding to the Assistant Adjutant-General at San Francisco, April 2, 1872
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.
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No. 59.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.