Editing Banks Peninsula (section)

=== Le Bons Bay ===
[[File:Le Bons Bay 960.jpg|thumb|Le Bons Bay (November 2018)]]

Le Bons Bay has a large often empty beach. There is a small settlement of holiday houses. It is surrounded by rolling hills. A river empties into the sea where [[Arctocephalus forsteri|New Zealand Fur Seals]] often frolic.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=13 December 2018|title=Christchurch's hidden beach gems, in time for summer|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/109328006/christchurchs-hidden-beach-gems-in-time-for-summer|access-date=21 December 2020|website=Stuff|language=en}}</ref> First known as Bones bay in 1845, it became known as Le Bons Bay. It is suggested that this was either that a French settler named Le Bon lived there, or that early French settlers called it "The good bay" or that it is a corruption of Bones bay.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Ogilvie|first=Gordon|title=Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills|publisher=Canterbury University Press|year=2017|location=New Zealand|pages=134–135}}</ref>

[[John Cuff (politician)|John Cuff]] and William Cudden established a timber mill in Le Bons Bay in 1857. By 1878, the population of Le Bons Bay reached 237. At this stage, the timber had all been milled and the timber mill was moved to Hickory Bay until 1886.<ref name=":4" />