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'''Bay d'Espoir'''  ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|b|eɪ|d|ə|s|ˈ|p|ɛər}} {{respell|BAY|dəs|PAIR}})<ref>{{Citation| author = The Canadian Press| author-link = The Canadian Press| title = The Canadian Press Stylebook| place = Toronto| publisher = [[The Canadian Press]]| edition = 18th| year = 2017}}</ref> is an arm of [[Hermitage Bay]] in the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]], located on the south coast of [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bay-despoir|title=Bay d'Espoir {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|language=en|access-date=2018-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/opinion/the-road-to-bay-despoir-21109/|publisher=[[Cape Breton Post]]|title=The road to Bay d'Espoir|date=4 Aug 2016|accessdate=14 Aug 2022}}</ref> Communities in Bay d'Espoir include: [[Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir]], Morrisville, [[St. Alban's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. Alban's]], [[St. Joseph's Cove, Bay D'Espoir, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. Joseph's Cove]], [[St. Veronica's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. Veronica's]] and [[Conne River|Miawpukek]]. The [[Miawpukek First Nation]] reserve of Samiajij Miawpukek (Conne River) is located in Bay d'Espoir.<ref name="GNBC">{{cite web | title = Samiajij Miawpukek | publisher = Natural Resources Canada | date = October 6, 2016 | url = http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/ACPWX}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/conne-river-powwow-1.4738145|title=Hundreds attend powwow in Conne River|publisher=CBC News|date=Jul 7, 2018|accessdate=Oct 16, 2020}}</ref>

==Name==
The name appears in printed form with many different spellings, some of which are: '''Bay D' Espoir/e, Bay of Despair, Bay Despoir/e, Baie D' Espoir/e, Baie Despair''' and '''Baie Despoir/e'''.

Bay d'Espoir is often translated locally either as Bay of Hope or Bay of Despair. The name Bay of Despair may be an English corruption of the French name Baie d'Espoir.<ref>[http://mikmawey.uccb.ns.ca/saintpierre.html/ Charles A. Martijn/Mikmawey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050302162528/http://mikmawey.uccb.ns.ca/saintpierre.html/|date=March 2, 2005}}.</ref> However, the French cartographer [[Jacques-Nicolas Bellin|Bellin]] referred to the bay as "Baie du Desespoir" on his 1743 map "Carte de l'Isle de Terre-Neuve".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84917750/f1.item.zoom |title=Carte de l'Isle de Terre-Neuve}}</ref> Therefore, the actual sequence may have been from "Baie du Desespoir" to the English literal translation "Bay of Despair", which appears as early as 1733 on a Henry Popple map,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~887~70081:-Composite-Map-of--A-Map-of-the-Bri |title=British Empire in America}}</ref> and then to a French corruption of this, namely "Baie d'Espoir". The English name "Bay of Despair" can also be found in a navigation guide written by [[James Cook]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Directions for navigating on part of the south coast of Newfoundland, with a chart thereof, including the Islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon |last=Cook |first=James |date=1766 |url=https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns/id/31480 |page=16}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
Bay d'Espoir is the feature location of [[Farley Mowat]]'s 2006 autobiography "Bay of Spirits", in which Mowat chronicles his time living on the southwest coast of the island of Newfoundland.

==See also==
* [[Bay d'Espoir Academy]]
* [[Bay d'Espoir Hydroelectric Power Station]]
*[[List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador]]
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