GANDER, Newfoundland and Labrador | Brendan Gallagher, Cole Caufield and Youppi! were the Canadians’ most popular representatives when the team arrived at the Steele Community Centre.
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“You get off the bus and you see all these young people, it takes you back to when you were that age. So you try to enjoy the moment and get the kids involved in the experience as much as possible,” Gallagher said.
Some had strange ways of getting involved. For example, a young fan asked Caufield to autograph him…on the forehead.
“That was a first. I told him it was a sharpie and permanent. He insisted anyway, so I did it,” laughed the Canadian forward.
The Queen, Churchill and the Beatles
The CH and Senators players aren’t the first celebrities to set foot in Gander. Even compared to those who have preceded them, they are far from holding the top of the pavement.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Winston Churchill, Fidel Castro, The Beatles, Albert Einstein, Frank Sinatra:
all have already set foot in this small Atlantic town. At least they entered his airport.
It must be said that Gander International Airport was used as a refueling point for transatlantic flights at the time of its construction (1938) and until the late 1960s. So the passengers would loosen their legs while the gas station attendants at the airport filled up.
A face lift for George
The $250,000 prize she won allows Twillingate, winner of the 2020 Kraft Hockeyville contest, to renovate her run-down rink.
The George Hawkins Arena was built in 1968 using parts from one of the hangars at Gander International Airport.
- Don’t miss Jean-François Baril’s sports column at the mic mario dumont, every day on the waves of QUB radio:
Today the roof of the company is leaking, the compressors are rupturing and the life expectancy of the Zamboni is coming to an end.
For the record, George Hawkins is a Canadian World War I soldier who died on July 1, 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. 57,000 soldiers of the British Empire died that day.
alone in the world
Remember those Radio-Canada commercials that ended with “an hour later at the Maritimes”? Well, she wasn’t entirely honest.
Interestingly, Newfoundland (and the southeastern part of Labrador) has its own time zone. One and a half hours ahead of Eastern Time.
No other region in the world is in the same time zone. Still special to be unique.