Louise Stead


"I WILL FIND THE RIGHT HOME FOR YOU."

Location: 284 Airport Blvd.
Office: (709) 651-2929
Cell: (709) 424-1197
Fax: (709) 651-2914
Toll Free: 1-800-563-3731
Email: gander@nl.rogers.com

Homefinders
are now offering
Prime building lots and
"Turn Key Homes"
on the new cul-de-sac on "Jackson Place"



The following page contains pictures of Gander, as it use to be, before Gander was moved to its present site in the mid 1950s. We hope you take a few minutes to view a pictorial history of Gander.

If you have pictures, that you would like to put on this page, please send them to gander@nl.rogers.com. Thanks!!





Open Field, Drill Hall, Star Theater  
First Railway Station




1970 Old Navy Site - Winter   Administration Building - 1940s

 

Captain Fraser lands first plane in Gander January 11, 1938


Gander Airport - 1940s

     



Gander Aerial Photo - 1955   Gander Aerial Photo - 1950

 
Postcard of Airport

Army Side Map
Index of Numbers

 

Banting Memorial Hospital


Banting Memorial Hospital - Army Side
 

 
Canadian Side
Crash Truck
 

 
Czechoslovakian Plane Crash -1967

Deadman's Pond Cabin
 

 

Diesel Plant and Gander Inn


Dry cleaners - 1950s
 

 

EPA Canso - 1960
 
EPA Carvair
 

 

Ferry Crossing - Gander River


Fire Hall - 1946
 

 
Globe Theatre

Old Train Station
 




Paul Bunyan   Queen Elizabeth - Visit 1959

 
USAF return from Europe after VE Day   USAF Crash Boat - Gander Lake

 
Gander ATC Tower - 1950   Laying Cable Across Gander Lake

 
Dog Team passing by the Jupiter Hotel   Float Plane on Gander Lake Wharf

 
Goodyear's Grocery Store, Jenkins Drug Store and Residence   Goodyear's Store - 1940s

 
Gander Lake Boat House   Gander Lake - Road to the Wharf

 
Gander Lake Marine Base   Men's Quarters - 1937

 
Federal Building - Post Office 1959   Queen Elizabeth Visit - 1959

 
Layout for Gander Runway   Two-Room Schoolhouse - Chestnut Street

 
The Star Theatre   Sebena - Emergency Supplies Parachuted In

 
Sabena - HNS Helicopter delivered form New York USCG. This helicopter was assembled within 48 hours   Helicopter was used to bring survivors out of the wooded area.

 
Sabena Survivor   Sabena Crash Site - September 18, 1946

   
Pal Story by Jim Cornish Story found in the Ottawa Citizen    

History of Gander Weather Station   Site Constructed by Eileen Elms
     
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