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ISBN. 978-0060559717. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland is a 2002 oral history of the small town of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in the wake of the September 11 attacks written by journalist Jim DeFede [ 1][ 2] It is the first book authored by DeFede.
Gander is a town located in the northeastern part of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, approximately 40 km (25 mi) south of Gander Bay, 100 km (62 mi) south of Twillingate and 90 km (56 mi) east of Grand Falls-Windsor. Located on the northeastern shore of Gander Lake, it is the site of Gander ...
Gander International Airport. / 48.94750°N 54.56000°W / 48.94750; -54.56000. Gander International Airport ( IATA: YQX, ICAO: CYQX) is located in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and is operated by the Gander International Airport Authority.
Come from Away is a musical, with book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. It is based on the events in the Newfoundland town of Gander during the week following the September 11 attacks, when 38 planes, carrying approximately 7,000 passengers, were ordered to land unexpectedly at Gander International Airport.
The island of Newfoundland is separated from Labrador by the Strait of Belle Isle, which is 125 kilometres (78 mi) long and from 60 to 15 kilometres (37.3 to 9.3 mi) wide. In addition to the island of Newfoundland, the province is made up of 12 larger islands with a total area of 2,505 square kilometres (967 sq mi) and 7,170 smaller islands ...
Route 1 (TCH) Come By Chance is a town on the isthmus of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [ 3] It is in Division 1 on Placentia Bay . Located in this town is Newfoundland's only oil refinery, the Come By Chance Refinery operated by North Atlantic Refining, which has a capacity of 130,000 barrels per day (21,000 m 3 /d ...
Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Density 2016. Newfoundland and Labrador is a province of Canada on the country's Atlantic coast in northeastern North America.The province has an area of 405,212 square kilometres (100,130,000 acres) and a population in 2024 of 541,391, with approximately 95% of the provincial population residing on the Island of Newfoundland (including its associated smaller ...
Bonavista (2021 population: 3,190 [ 1]) is a town on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Unlike many Newfoundland coastal settlements, Bonavista was built on an open plain, not in a steep cove, and thus had room to expand to its current area of 31.5 km 2 (12.2 sq mi). [ 1]