Western Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador is a town in Conception Bay, about 13 miles north of Carbonear. It was originally a farming and fishing settlement and was established as a Postal town in 1864. It had a population of 965 in 1901 and 508 in 1956.E.J. Pratt, who has been called "the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the [twentieth] century" (The Canadian Encyclopedia), was born in Western Bay, where his father was a Methodist minister, on February 4, 1882.