"Canal De Haro and Strait of Rosario and Approaches" U.S. Coast Survey 1854
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Publisher: U.S. Coast Survey Office
Date: 1854
Size: 25 x 27 inches from frame lines
Description: Aside from the Strait of Rosario and the Canal de Haro this map gives a full view of the San Juan Islands with parts of Vancouver Island and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. An insert map gives a full view of the Puget and Admiralty Inlet.
A interesting story resided in the names given for the Canal De Haro and the Rosario Strait, which stem from Spanish origins as Lynn Middleton notes in her book titled Places and Names of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
"'Named after Gonzalo Lopez de Haro, First Mate on the Spanish naval ship, Princess Royal. Named by Sub-Lieutenant Manuel Quimper, commanding the "Princess Royal" 1790. It was originally called "Canal De Lopez de Haro", by Quimpe." However, as can be seen on this map by 1854 then name Lopez had been dropped in favor of Canal de Haro. Interestingly, the canal part of the name has also been dropped by modern maps also, for the name Haro Strait.
The Strait of Rosario underwent a similar naming process with, "The name originat[ing] in 1791 and first applied to the Gulf of Georgia by Eliza, 'Gran Canal de Nuestra Senora del Rosario la Marinera.' In 1847, Captain Kellet shifted part of the long Spanish name from the Gulf of Georgia and charted the Rosario Strait." A name which the strait has maintained even into the modern age.
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