Saint Georges Bay

St. George's Bay opens onto the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Newfoundland's western coast. Its wide mouth lies between the Port au Port Peninsula and Cape Anguille, with rivers flowing into the sheltered inner bay. Mi'kmaq communities lived around these shores and travelled between the coast and the interior. In 1767 James Cook surveyed the western coast of Newfoundland and recorded a Mi'kmaq village in the bay, adding its inlets and headlands to his charts.