New Wales

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an early name for the western shore of Hudson's Bay, in the vicinity of Forts York and Churchill.

Quotations

1748

His own Name he left to the Bay, where he wintered, and adjacent Country he called New-Wales.

1932

Cape Churchill, the promontory to the eastward, he seems to have named "Northerland" head, and the district to the south "New Wales."