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Thursday 6:35 AM

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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Great Harbour Deep was an incorporated town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, situated on the east coast of the Great Northern Peninsula. Harbour Deep, as it is customarily called, is a logging and fishing community that lies in a sheltered harbour on the south shore of Pigeonnière Arm. It was once known as Orange Bay or Baie L'Orange.

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Map of Great Harbour Deep, NL, Canada

Orange Bay or Great Harbour Deep was a French fishing station and it had appeared on Samuel de Champlain's map of 1612 as Baye dorge. It has gone through many name changes as noted on mapping at various years as noted;

  • 1613 b doringe
  • 1621 Havor Dorin
  • 1653 B d'orge
  • c.1680 B Dorange
  • 1689 Harbor Dorin
  • 1699 Baie d'Orge
  • 1715 Harbour Deep and Bay de Orge
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    Great Harbour Deep Wikipedia