Frobisher Bay for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it. Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The Anglican Church of Canada's Prayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably
Christopher Middleton (navigator) proceeded north into Roes Welcome Sound and discovered Wager Inlet where he was iced in for three weeks. At the head of the sound he was blocked by ice and named the place Repulse Bay. Middleton returned to England in 1742, where he was presented with the Copley Medal by the Royal Society, to whom he presented a paper on "The extraordinary degrees and surprising effects of Cold in Hudson's Bay". Christopher Middleton (navigator) Christopher Middleton (died 12 February 1770) was a British naval officer and navigator. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on . On ,