Minette Bay

Minette Bay (54˚01'13" 128˚37'41" Head of Kitimat Arm, just S of Kitimat). According to historian John Walbran, the bay was named in 1898 by Louis Coste, chief engineer of Canada’s Dept of Public Works, after his wife. As capt of CGS Quadra, Walbran had taken Coste and his party to examine the heads of several coastal inlets that year as possible termini for a proposed railway to the Yukon. However, a 1924 report of the Geographic Board of Canada states that the feature is named after one...

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