The next steamer was the _International_, built at Georgetown, in 1861, for the Hudson’s Bay Company, at a cost of about $20,000. Her length was 160 feet, breadth 30 feet, depth (from the water-line to the ceiling of her upper saloon) 20 feet, and her registered tonnage was 133⅓ tons. She was found to be too large for the Red River navigation. The same company’s steamer, the _Northcote_, commenced to ply on the Saskatchewan about 1875. In 1878 there were running on the waters of Manitoba seventeen steamers, among which were the _Manitoba_, _Dakota_, _Selkirk_, _Swallow_, _Minnesota_, _Prince Rupert_, _Keewatin_, etc. The Hudson’s Bay Company at that time owned a propeller which ran on Lake Winnipeg to the portage at the mouth of the Saskatchewan, where connection was made with the _Northcote_ and a steel-built steamer, the _Lilly_. This company had also another steamer plying on the Red River, named the _Chief Commissioner_. Since the opening of the country by railways the navigation of the Upper Red River and the Assiniboine has been of small account, but below Selkirk there is still a considerable trade carried on. There are at least half a dozen companies interested in the navigation of these waters. The North-West Navigation Company runs three steamers, the _Princess_, 350 tons; the _Red River_, 200 tons; the _Marquette_, 160 tons, and a number of barges. The Selkirk Fish Company owns the _Sultana_, of 200 tons; the Manitoba Fish Company has the _City of Selkirk_, of 160 tons. Besides these there is a numerous fleet of steam-tugs and barges. In all there are some fifty steamers on these inland waters. During the palmy days of Red River transportation the leading name was that of Norman W. Kittson, at that time of St. Paul, Minnesota, but formerly a trader of the old Red River settlement, who was often familiarly called “Commodore Kittson.” IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.[64]