Chateau Bay

{{Short description|Bay and former settlement in Labrador, Canada}}

{{Location map|Canada Newfoundland and Labrador|lat=51.9800|long=-55.8951|width=200|caption=Location of Chateau Bay in

Newfoundland and Labrador|label=Chateau Bay}}

Chateau Bay (historically also spelled as Chateaux Bay[https://archive.today/20130101195542/http://link.library.utoronto.ca/inuitmoravian/digobject.cfm?idno=M0023 A 1766 map referring to it as "Chateaux Bay"]) 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/govhouse/governors/g20.html|title=Webb, James (biography)|publisher=The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador}} It was surveyed by James Cook in 1763, during his survey of the Strait of Belle Isle aboard HMS Grenville.Lysaght, p.68 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.Lysaght, p.47 One of the specimens collected there was the now extinct great auk.Lysaght, p.168

References

{{cite book|title=Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766; his diary, manuscripts, and collections |author=A M Lysaght|

publisher=Berkeley, University of California Press|year=1971}}

Notes

{{Coord|51.980|N|55.895|W|display=title|region:CA_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}

Category:Ghost towns in Newfoundland and Labrador

Category:Bays of Newfoundland and Labrador