Chateau Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador

Chateau Bay

Location of Chateau Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador

Chateau Bay (historically also spelled as Chateaux Bay^[1]) is a bay and former settlement in Labrador, Canada. Historically it is also sometimes called York Harbour, a name given by James Webb in 1760 when he claimed the harbour for the English.^[2] It was surveyed by James Cook in 1763, during his survey of the Strait of Belle Isle aboard HMS Grenville.^[3] In August 1766 Joseph Banks arrived in Chateau Bay as a part of a partially scientific journey to study and collect the plants and animals.^[4] One of the specimens collected there was the now extinct great auk.^[5]

References

A M Lysaght (1971). Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766; his diary, manuscripts, and collections. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Notes

^ A 1766 map referring to it as "Chateaux Bay"
^ "Webb, James (biography)". The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador.
^ Lysaght, p.68
^ Lysaght, p.47
^ Lysaght, p.168

51°58′48″N 55°53′42″W / 51.980°N 55.895°W / 51.980; -55.895

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[1] A 1766 map referring to it as "Chateaux Bay"

[2] "Webb, James (biography)". The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador.

[3] Lysaght, p.68

[4] Lysaght, p.47

[5] Lysaght, p.168

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