Telegraph Passage

Telegraph Passage (54˚02'00" 130˚06'00" E side of Kennedy I, S entrance to the Skeena R, S of Prince Rupert). This name commemorates part of the route taken in 1866 by the Mumford, a sternwheeler under the command of Capt Horace Coffin, to transport cable and supplies from Victoria for the construction of the Collins Overland Telegraph. Coffin, the first steamship captain on the Skeena, had been partway upriver the two previous years with the small sternwheeler Union but was driven back by...

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