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Gander

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Gander

Town in northeast Newfoundland, Canada; population (1991) 10,300. It is situated on the north shore of Gander Lake, 215 km/136 mi northwest of St John's. The town is a trade centre for a hunting and fishing area. An airfield for experimental flights was opened in 1936 in this virtually fog-free location, and was completed in 1939. Expanded during World War II, it became a major Allied base. Until the 1960s, it was an important stop for transatlantic flights.



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There never was a goose so gray but sometime soon or late Some honest gander came her way and took her for his mate!
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
When we lived at Henley, Barnes's gander was stole by tinkers.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Lydgate relied much on the psychological difference between what for the sake of variety I will call goose and gander: especially on the innate submissiveness of the goose as beautifully corresponding to the strength of the gander.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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