Notable Facts
- Chaleur Bay is a member of the prestigious Most Beautiful Bays of the World Club.
- Chaleur Bay is host to an unusual visual phenomenon, the Fireship of Chaleur Bay, an apparition of sorts resembling a ship on fire which has reportedly appeared at several locations in the bay. It is possibly linked to similar sightings several hundred kilometres to the south where the Fireship of Northumberland Strait has been seen in the Northumberland Strait.
- Chaleur Bay is mentioned in John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "Skipper Ireson's Ride."
- Bryce's The Geology of Arran 1855 notes: "Many years ago, a large population, the largest then collected in any one spot in Arran, inhabited glen, and gained a scanty subsistence by fishing and by cultivating fertile plots on the sunny hill-sides. In 1832, the whole of the families amounting to 500 persons, were obliged to leave the island, but were furnished with the means of reaching New Brunswick. They formed a settlement at Chaleur Bay, which became very prosperous".
- The bay was the site of the Baie des Chaleurs attack on German submarine U-536 in September 1943. Canadian corvette HMCS Rimouski, equipped with an active camouflage system in the form of diffused lighting with projectors beaming light dimly on to its hull to match the faint glow of the night sky, stealthily approached the submarine. However, a wrong signal sent from shore alerted the U-boat, which dove and escaped.
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