Tag: Joey Smallwood

Eastern Canada, Here we Come – Gander, Newfoundland -2025

I don’t know if people who read my Blog, outside of Canada, have heard of Gander Newfoundland but this town played a huge part during the 9/11.

Gander’s airport date back to 1936 when the International airport was built, 4 paved runways, and it was the largest airport in the world at that time. At the time of 9/11, 38 aircraft and approximately 7,000 people ended up in Gander, a town with a population of 10,000. There has been books written, movies made and a play called Come From Away written on this piece of history.

  • Airport
  • Still working as an airport
  • This part was very cool and then they had a museum upstairs from this part of the airport
  • This shows some of the celebrities that passed through this airport at some point
  • A piece of the World Trade Centre
  • Another part of history about Sgt Gander, a big Newfoundland dog and his adventures

We also went to the North Atlantic Aviation Museum.

  • Commander Gander
  • Inside the museum
  • Partial steel beam of the Twin Towers
  • We walked behind the building to see the planes outside and spotted this!
  • CF-101 Voodoo
  • PBY-5A Catalina/Canso

We also drove to Gambo to see Joey Smallwood’s statue. Joey Smallwood was the Premier of Newfoundland from 1949 – 1972 and he played a leading role in bringing Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949. He was also a journalist, labour organizer, farmer, broadcaster and author.

  • Joey Smallwood statue in the town of Gambo
  • There was a park beside the statue and they had a train so of course……..someone had to have a ride

We had a nice time in Gander, we sat on a lovely outdoor deck at a local golf course and watched the golfers come up the 18th hole while we had a bite to eat and a drink. Clint and I used to be avid golfers until we retired and now we don’t have time as travel a lot. But I would like to take it up again one day.

Next stop…….Cornerbrook !