| Feature Type: | Bay - Water area in an indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake, or large river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Observatory Inlet opposite Alice Arm, S of Stewart, Cassiar Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°23'38"N, 129°49'17"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 103P/5 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Granby Bay (not Goose Bay nor Xschwan)" adopted in the 11th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada 30 June 1912. Confirmed 7 July 1949 on C.3712. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Xschwan Fishery" labelled in this location on British Admiralty Chart 2431, published in 1869 from surveys by Captain Pender in 1868. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Formerly called Goose Bay and locally used, but if a change is necessary due to duplication, then Granby Bay would be appropriate as that Company is about to erect a very large mining plant there." (February 1912 letter to Geographic Board of Canada) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |