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Garden Bay History
This small area is important to our history as the site of the first hospital on the Sunshine Coast, which is celebrated every August at Hospital Bay Day. The old St. Mary’s Hospital building still looks over Hospital Bay, but now as the Sundowner Inn.
Garden Bay wasn’t named for its beautiful gardens, although three are lots of those. It seems that a government surveyor, a Mr. Garden, assigned to mapping and naming the area, was either lacking in imagination or over-endowed with ego, leaving us with Garden Bay, Garden Bay Road, Garden Peninsula and Garden Bay Lake. Our federal government kept up the tradition by dedicating Garden Bay Marine Park. Also see The First Hospital.
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Offsite Garden Bay Links
2006 Census profile for Garden Bay
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