Byng Inlet (Ontario)

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 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.

The steamship Northern Belle was suddenly engulfed in a devastating fire in Byng Inlet, on November 10, 1898.