Chateau Bay

Not to be confused with York Harbour.

Chateau Bay

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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

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

51°58′48″N55°53′42″W / 51.980°N 55.895°W / 51.980; -55.895