Byng Inlet (Ontario)
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Byng Inlet is a body of water on the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, between Parry Sound and the mouth of the French River. It is a widening of the Magnetawan River, near its mouth. The name of the river Magnetawan meaning "long open channel" in the Ojibwa language, obviously refers to this section of the river.
[edit] Naming of the Inlet
Byng Inlet named to honor fomer British Naval officer John Byng, was named by Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield, who charted the Canadian shores of lakes Huron and Superior, formerly involved with Admiral William Fitzwilliam Owen, while surveying the lower Great Lakes Erie and Ontario. For surveying of this region, Bayfield made his headquarters at the Naval Establishment at Penetanguishene in 1819. In 1825, Bayfield returned to England to prepare his charts for the engraver.
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[edit] the Inlet to-day
see Byng Inlet, Ontario the village on the south shore, or Britt, Ontario on the north shore.
