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Cobb’s Pond Rotary Park (Photo Credit-Tom Cochrane)
The reception these travellers received in the central Today, Gander is a vital transportation, service,
Newfoundland communities near the airport has and retail hub for Central-East Newfoundland and,
become a story told near and far, and has been thanks to a prescient Town Council, is a town well
celebrated and retold for audiences for years in the prepared for this role to continue long into the
musical Come from Away. future. Bucking the provincial trend of a declining
population, Gander’s population has grown by 23
Over the years, the airport became part of a larger per cent over the last four census tallies.
aviation and aerospace sector. The College of the
North Atlantic has a campus in Gander, as well as a GROWTH IN GANDER
flight training school here that attract students from
all over the world. A vital community has continued “We started out as a bunch of people building an
to thrive around—and beyond—the aviation industry airport but we evolved into a fairly major service
in Gander. center for a large portion of the province,” Mayor of
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