Chateau Bay

Not to be confused with York Harbour.

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]

Chateau Bay

Location of Chateau Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador

References

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