GANDER, Newfoundland — They still don't know what all the fuss is about. Sixteen years ago, this small Canadian town on an island in the North Atlantic Ocean took in nearly 6,700 people ...

Local resident Jack Pinsent, who was born during World War II and now runs Gander Airport Historical Society, told CNN Travel in 2019 that he remembers when the town didn’t even exist.

GANDER, Newfoundland — Like many residents of this small Canadian town, Mayor Claude Elliott doesn't like to take credit for anything, but even he has one point of pride. When Elliott ...

Gander Mayor Claude Elliott on the town's response when airline passengers were stranded there on 9/11: 'We're going to take people in when we see people with nowhere to go. That's just the way we ...

In fact, hers was one of 38 planes instructed to land in Gander on the morning of September 11 2001 - a town of 11,000 inhabitants on the Canadian island of Newfoundland, which saw its population ...

And in the tiny town of Gander, the “come from aways” arrived in such numbers on September 12, 2001, that they doubled the population. In the aftermath of the Twin Towers attack on September ...

Roxanne Loper was among the nearly 7,000 passengers who were stranded in the small Canadian town of Gander, Newfoundland on 9/11. Loper was aboard one of the 38 planes diverted to Gander after the ...

Gander opened its arms to nearly 6,600 airline passengers diverted there when the U.S. government shut down airspace during 9/11. In a matter of a few hours, the town population of 10,000 in 2001 ...

Gander, a town of about 10,000 people (and 550 hotel rooms) in Newfoundland, Canada, lies in the northeastern tip of North America and has long served as a refueling stop for trans-Atlantic ...

A number of topics were brought up and discussed, including a former church purchased by the Town of Gander that it hopes to ...

Now, we need to do extraordinary things for ourselves." The town of Gander welcomed nearly 6,600 diverted airline passengers when U. airspace was closed following the attacks. This act of ...