Canada Bay

This article is about the bay. For the suburb, see Canada Bay, New South Wales. For the local government area, see City of Canada Bay.

Canada Bay
Aerial image of Hen and Chicken Bay, looking north. Canada Bay is the inlet in the lower left.
Canada Bay Location of Canada Bay in New South Wales
Location	Inner-west Sydney, New South Wales
Coordinates	33°51′24″S 151°07′04″E / 33.85667°S 151.11778°E / -33.85667; 151.11778Coordinates: 33°51′24″S 151°07′04″E / 33.85667°S 151.11778°E / -33.85667; 151.11778^[1]^[2]
Type	Bay
Primary outflows	Parramatta River
Basin countries	Australia

Frozen	never
Settlements	Canada Bay

The Canada Bay is an estuarine bay on the Parramatta River, in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is the innermost inlet of the larger Hen and Chicken Bay. Two other bays to the north of Canada Bay are two other bays named for Canadian interment camps for convicts involved in the Upper Canada Rebellion:

Exile Bay - surrounded by Massey Park Golf Club and Prince Edward Park
France Bay - surrounded by residential area of Cabarita, New South Wales

Location and features

Boats on Canada Bay.

The shoreline of Canada Bay is largely open parkland, with some residential use to the north and east. The City West Link Road, a major arterial road, runs along the southern shore of the bay.

A suburb on the shore of the bay is named after it, as is the City of Canada Bay, the local government area encompassing a large portion of inner-western Sydney.

History

The name Canada Bay honours a link between Australia and Canada. Following the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 to 1838, two Irish and 58 French Canadian rebels were deported to Australia. At the request of the local Catholic bishop, they were brought to Sydney. Imprisoned at Longbottom Stockade (which was located at what is now Concord Oval), the convicts broke stone for the construction of Parramatta Road and collected oyster shells for making lime. In 1842, the French Canadians were allowed to work outside the prison. Between 1843 and 1844, all received pardons and, except for two people who died and one (Joseph Marceau) who settled in Dapto all returned to Canada.

After the rebellions, the Australian Governor General and High Commissioner to Canada recommended that Britain grant responsible self-government to the Union of Upper and Lower Canada. In the 1850s, the Australian colonies achieved responsible government and parliamentary democracy. Many parts of Canada Bay are a reminder of this history: Exile Bay, France Bay, Durham Street, Marceau Drive, Polding Street and Gipps Street. Bayview Park, occupying the headland at the northern end of the bay, has a plaque that honours the exiles and marks the point of disembarkation.

References

↑ "Canada Bay (NSW)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "Canada Bay (bay)". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.

Geography of Parramatta River

Sources	Toongabbie Creek Darling Mills Creek

Tributaries: left	Vineyard Creek Subiaco Creek Archer Creek Smalls Creek Charity Creek Lane Cove River

Tributaries: right	Duck River Haslams Creek Powells Creek Iron Cove Creek Hawthorne Canal

Islands	Rodd Island Snapper Island Spectacle Island Cockatoo Island

Parramatta River ferry services	Parramatta Rydalmere Sydney Olympic Park Meadowbank Kissing Point Cabarita Abbotsford Chiswick Huntleys Point

River crossings	Lennox Bridge Barry Wilde Bridge Elizabeth St Footbridge The Macarthur Bridge Clyde–Carlingford railway bridge Thackeray Bridge Silverwater Bridge James Ruse Drive bridge John Whitton Bridge Parramatta River Underbridge Ryde Bridge Mortlake Ferry Gladesville Bridge

River inlets and bays	Homebush Bay Kissing Point Bay Morrisons Bay Kendall Bay Glades Bay France Bay Exile Bay Canada Bay Kings Bay Hen and Chicken Bay Looking Glass Bay Abbotsford Bay Wallumatta Bay Five Dock Bay Lukes Bay Drummoyne Bay Iron Cove

Suburbs: north	North Parramatta Rydalmere Ermington Melrose Park Meadowbank Putney Tennyson Point Gladesville Henley Huntleys Point Huntleys Cove Hunters Hill Woolwich Greenwich

Suburbs: south	Parramatta Camellia Silverwater Newington Wentworth Point Sydney Olympic Park Liberty Grove Rhodes Concord Mortlake Breakfast Point Cabarita Canada Bay Five Dock Wareemba Abbotsford Chiswick Drummoyne Russell Lea Rodd Point Haberfield Lilyfield Rozelle Birchgrove

Waterways of the Sydney Metropolitan catchment, New South Wales, Australia

Major inlets and harbours	Botany Bay Broken Bay Middle Harbour Port Jackson Port Hacking

Minor bays and coves	Akuna Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Burraneer Canada Careening Cove Cockle Dolans Double Elizabeth Gwawley Gymea Hen and Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons Weeney White Woolooware

Lagoons	Dee Why Curl Curl Manly Narrabeen

Rivers	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Hawkesbury Lane Cove Nepean Parramatta Pittwater Woronora

Creeks	A'Becketts Angus Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bellamy Farm Bellbird Bells Berowra Bidjigal Bilgola Blacktown Blaxland Blue Gum Boggywell Bonds Breakfast Brennans Brickmakers Bunbury Curran Bungarribee Burdekin Byrnes Cabramatta Caddies Cahill Camp Careel Carroll Charity Claremont Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Coopers Cosgrove Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Deadmans Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Eskdale Excelsior Finlaysons First Ponds Forbes Frenchs Glenbrook Gore Grantham Greystanes Haslams Hunts Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Lalor Little Lowes Marsden McCarrs McKenzies McMahon's Maxwells Middle Harbour Mill Minchinbury O'Hares Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Pendle Hill Powells Prospect Punchbowl Quakers Reedy Rileys Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Sawmill Scout Second Ponds Smalls Smiths South Still Stoney Subiaco Tarban Terrys Thompsons Toongabbie Two Vineyard Werrington Whites Williams Wolli

Canals and streams	Alexandra Canal Busby's Bore Hawthorne Canal Tank Stream

Reservoirs	Balmain Reservoir (disused) Lake Burragorang Manly Dam Reserve Lake Parramatta Prospect Reservoir Upper Nepean Scheme

Adjoining rivers and bays	Akuna Brisbane Water Burke Cataract Colo Cordeaux Coxs Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Macdonald Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Tarlo Warragamba Wollondilly

Coastal bays and inlets of New South Wales, Australia

North of Sydney Harbour	Akuna Anna Bateau Blue Boat Harbour Bonnells Booker Brisbane Water Broken Byron Careel Carey Catherine Hill Chain Valley Chittaway Cogra Crangan Croudace Crowdy Elvina Empire Fennell Fingal Fishermans Hardys Kilaben Lovett Morning Myuna Bay Nelson One Mile Oyster Phegans Port Stephens Salamander Shoal Tanilba Toowoon Trial Warners Woy Woy Yowie

Within Sydney Harbour	Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Canada Careening Cove Cockle Double Elizabeth Hen and Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Port Jackson Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons White

South of Sydney Harbour	Bate Batemans Bittangabee Bonnet Botany Burraneer Callala Dolans Gunnamatta Gwawley Gymea Kogarah Kyle Little Malua Mystery Port Hacking Twofold Weeney Woolooware

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