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2 unusual facts about Goose Bay


Goose Bay

CFB Goose Bay, a Canadian Forces Base located in Happy Valley – Goose Bay

Newfoundland and Labrador municipal elections, 2005

==Happy Valley-Goose Bay==


Charles Jost Burchell

The mission remained following the war in order to deal with the withdrawal of American troops, negotiate a 99 year lease for a Canadian military airbase at Goose Bay and, ultimately, to negotiate Newfoundland's entry into Canadian Confederation following the 1948 Newfoundland referendums.

Endel Puusepp

On May 29, 1942, after stopping in Tealing, Prestwick, Reykjavík, and Goose Bay, the Petlyakov Pe-8 plane with the Soviet delegation on board landed in Washington.

L. E. Emerson

He even travelled to London to attend negotiations for the Leased Bases Agreement, which granted the United States 99-year leases to military bases in Stephenville, Pleasantville, Goose Bay, Argentia etc.

Labrador West, Newfoundland and Labrador

The nearest population centres to Labrador West is the Quebec town of Fermont, 30 km away; ports of Sept-Îles and Baie-Comeau to the south and the military town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay to the east.

Lockheed F-94 Starfire

Another early detachment was the 59th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, (all-weather, night-fighter interceptor,) which was sent to Goose Bay, Labrador in November, 1952 and placed under the control of Northeast Air Command (NEAC).

Maritime Central Airways Flight 315

Maritime Central Airways (MCA) Flight 315 was a non-scheduled commercial flight from London, England to Toronto, Ontario with refueling stops in Reykjavík, Iceland and Goose Bay, Newfoundland.

Project HOMERUN

On a typical RB-47H reconnaissance mission covering 5,984 mi (9,360 km), the aircraft would fly from Thule, Greenland to the Kara Sea to Murmansk and then return only to find Thule weathered-in, forcing the flight from the air-refueling/decision point near the northeast shore of Greenland to one of three equidistant alternates: Goose Bay, Labrador, London, or Fairbanks, Alaska.


see also

Goose Bay Airport

CFB Goose Bay, a Canadian Forces Base in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (IATA: YYR)