Claim: La Malbaie is a municipality in the Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada that was named after the British General James Murray (1721–1794) and came to be unofficially known as Murray Bay in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Evidence: He could not find suitable anchorage for his ship in the bay and therefore named it Malle Baye (archaic French for "bad bay"), a name further justified when during low tide the bay dried up and his ships ran aground.