| 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: | S end of Newcastle Island in Nanaimo Harbour, Nanaimo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°10'53"N, 123°55'59"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mark Bay adopted 4 October 1945 on Chart 381. Also Bate Point. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Called "Echo Bay" by long-time Nanaimo residents (possibly in use since 1910); so-identified on BC Parks interpretive sign here. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1939 by Canadian Hydrographic Service in association with Bate Point; both features named after Mr. Mark Bate, JP at Nanaimo, 1906, and the city's first mayor. Mr. Bate held many of the 1852-53 Hudson's Bay Company despatch logs, and copies of Governor Douglas' correspondence regarding the coal fields at Nanaimo, and these were made available to Captain Walbran in 1906 when he was researching his book "British Columbia Coast Names". Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |