| Feature Type: | Bay - Water area in an indentation of the shoreline of a sea, lake, or large river. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Mannion BayOfficial, Lodge Cove |
| Relative Location: | E side of Bowen Island, entrance of Howe Sound, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°22'58"N, 123°19'38"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Lodge Cove adopted 7 December 1937 as submitted in 1929 by the Hydrographic Service and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer; not "Deep Cove" as had been labelled on British Admiralty Chart #1922, 1868 et seq, and as identified in the 1909 BC Gazetteer, etc. Name changed to Deep Bay 3 March 1949 on C.3586, to conform to local usage. Name changed to Mannion Bay 1 November 1979 on 92G/6, as submitted July 1979 by Bowen Island Historians (file F.1.34 pt.3). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Deep Cove was the original local name; Hydrographic service recommended the generic "bay" be used instead, to avoid confusion with Deep Cove in Indian Arm, only 10 miles distant. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |