Great Harbour Deep
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.
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
It cost the province $3.8 million to resettle Great Harbour Deep, according to the government documents.
That $3.8 million was recovered in four years, through savings in services which were no longer necessary once the town was shuttered. Those services included the local school and ferry that linked the town to Jackson's Arm. However, the $3.8 million total does not include any pending or future settlement amounts.
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Coordinates: 50°22′19″N 56°31′05″W / 50.37194°N 56.51806°W