35-720: Goose Bay may refer to: Happy Valley-Goose Bay , a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada CFB Goose Bay , a Canadian Forces Base located in Happy Valley-Goose Bay Goose Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador) , a natural bay off the island of Newfoundland in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Goose Bay, New Zealand , a coastal settlement south of Kaikōura , New Zealand HMCS Goose Bay , ship Goose Bay Airport (Alaska) , an airport near Anchorage, Alaska [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
70-477: A change of -0.9% from its 2016 population of 8,109. With a land area of 304.52 km (117.58 sq mi), it had a population density of 26.4/km (68.4/sq mi) in 2021. The 2011 census showed that Happy Valley-Goose Bay has outgrown Labrador City and is now the largest community in Labrador. However, Labrador West (a region consisting of Labrador City and a nearby community, Wabush ) still has
105-722: A higher population than Upper Lake Melville (which includes Happy Valley-Goose Bay and three nearby communities) Happy Valley and Goose Bay are connected by the Trans-Labrador Highway with Labrador City and Baie-Comeau in Quebec. The road was extended south to link with an existing road from the Blanc Sablon - St. Barbe ferry. It opened in December 2009. Prior to 1954, hardly any licence plates were issued to Labrador communities except for Happy Valley and
140-451: A local addiction crisis. In 2001, 35 Innu children from Davis Inlet were sent to the former Grace Hospital in St. John's for treatment for gas sniffing. According to paediatrician and geneticist Dr. Ted Rosales, who served on the treatment team in 2001, approximately 24 of the youths were diagnosed as having FASD ( fetal alcohol spectrum disorder ). The Davis Inlet crisis was profiled in
175-472: A peninsula created by Terrington Basin to the north and Goose Bay at the south. Happy Valley-Goose Bay displays a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb ) right on the borderline with a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc ), marked by significant snowfall in the winter, which has average highs around −12 °C (10 °F). Summer highs, on the other hand, average 20 °C (68 °F). The average high temperature stays at or below freezing for five months of
210-578: A result of the February 1992 fire, the Mushuau Innu and Innu Nation held an internal enquiry published as Gathering Voices: Finding Strength to Help Our Children. Inhalant abuse was another problem in Davis Inlet, with 47 children being recognized as chronic abusers of solvents, some as young as age 5. In 1993, a video (recorded by Simeon Tshakapesh who later served as Chief of Davis Inlet)
245-536: A year-round basis, establishing the Davis Inlet community (known as Utshimasits by the Innu). Problems with the new site for the Davis Inlet community began as early as 1969. Settling on Iluikoyak Island inhibited the ability of the Innu to continue their traditional means of providing food by hunting caribou on the mainland and the community struggled adapting to its new-found dependence on store-bought food. Iluikoyak Island
280-489: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Happy Valley-Goose Bay [REDACTED] Route 510 (Labrador South Highway) Happy Valley-Goose Bay ( Inuit : Vâli ) is a town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada. Located in the central part of Labrador on the coast of Lake Melville and the Churchill River , Happy Valley-Goose Bay
315-489: Is solid rock, and because working the rock was seen as too expensive, the houses provided by the government for settlement were made without basements or water supply network and sewage systems . The houses were also small, poorly constructed, and not designed to house extended families . It was soon discovered that water supply on the island was insufficient, and most of it contaminated . Waste began to pile up, and diseases such as tuberculosis began to appear. Many of
350-607: Is the largest population centre in the region with an estimated 8,040 residents in 2021. Incorporated in 1973, it comprises the former town of Happy Valley and the Local Improvement District of Goose Bay. Built on a large sandy plateau in 1941, the town is home to the largest military air base in northeastern North America, CFB Goose Bay . In the summer of 1941, Eric Fry, an employee of the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources on loan to
385-542: The Innu began spending their summers along the shoreline of Davis Inlet. This location was chosen because of its accessibility, its offering of other non-caribou food sources, and the presence of a trading post , operated by the Hudson's Bay Company , that was able to supply traps , ammunition, tobacco, butter, sugar and flour to the Innu in exchange for furs. Davis Inlet was also frequented by Roman Catholic missionaries, whom
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#1732772745699420-678: The Royal Canadian Air Force , selected a large sandy plateau near the mouth of the Goose River to build the Goose Bay Air Force Base. Docking facilities for transportation of goods and personnel were built at Terrington Basin. Goose Air Base became a landing and refuelling stop for the Atlantic Ferry route . Soon after the site was selected, men from the coast of Labrador began working on
455-723: The 1996 documentary film Utshimassits: Place of the Boss . Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung wrote in his book, Man and His Symbols , the following: "Their inner centre is realised in exceptionally pure and unspoiled form by the Naskapi Indians, who still exist in the forests of the Labrador peninsula . These simple people are hunters who live in isolated family groups, so far from one another that they have not been able to evolve tribal customs or collective religious beliefs and ceremonies. In his lifelong solitude
490-485: The Goose Bay area. A series of small plates were issued to help fund road development. It was not until the mid-1960s that all of Labrador started using regular Newfoundland licence plates. Since 1992, the road from Baie-Comeau to Wabush was connected to an open route year-round to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The town was serviced by boat and container ship to the ports from Newfoundland and the port of Montreal . Most of
525-536: The Great Man away from one’s inner realm, whereas generosity and love of one’s neighbours and of animals attract him and give him life. Dreams give the Naskapi complete ability to find his way in life, not only in the inner world but also in the outer world of nature. They help him to foretell the weather and give him invaluable guidance in his hunting, upon which his life depends...Just as the Naskapi have noticed that
560-473: The Innu found helpful . In the following years the Innu began the process of sedentarization , transitioning from a nomadic lifestyle to a more sedentary one, travelling inland to hunt caribou in the fall and winter, but spending the summer at Davis Inlet. Without prior consultation the Newfoundland government , promising better opportunities for fishing and hunting , oversaw the 1948 relocation of
595-442: The Innu of Davis Inlet to the small community of Nutak in northern Labrador . However, two years later the Innu surprised government officials by returning to Davis Inlet, having made their way back through the interior of Labrador on foot. The government continued to consider relocation of the Innu, and in 1967 with the urging of government officials and missionaries the Innu of Davis Inlet moved and settled on Iluikoyak Island on
630-480: The Local Improvement District of Goose Bay was set up in 1970 and included an area called Spruce Park and the Canadian Department of Transport Housing areas. It grew to include other areas of the base until 1973, when it comprised all of the base area. Happy Valley-Goose Bay lies at the southwest end of Lake Melville near the mouth of the Churchill River . The town is located on the southern shore of
665-438: The Naskapi hunter has to rely on his own inner voices and unconscious revelations; he has no religious teachers who tell him what he should believe, no rituals, festivals or customs to help him along. In his basic view of life, the soul of man is simply an ‘Inner companion’, whom he calls ‘My friend’ or ‘Mistapeo’, meaning ‘Great Man’. Mistapeo dwells in the heart and is immortal ; in the moment of death, or just before, he leaves
700-488: The North Star School's second building was donated as the new library. The Grenfell Mission operated the first medical facilities when it opened a nursing station in 1951. In 1963, the provincial government built Paddon Memorial Hospital. CFB Goose Bay saw a reduction of NATO low-level tactical flight training in the decade 1996–2005, and the town faced an uncertain future as the federal government reduced
735-609: The RCMP. In November 1999, international Indigenous rights organization Survival International released a report on the Labrador Innu entitled Canada's Tibet: The Killing of the Innu . The report called the Innu of Davis Inlet "the most suicide-ridden people of the world". In November 2000, Davis Inlet, along with Sheshatshiu , took the unprecedented step of asking the Canadian federal government to step in and assist with
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#1732772745699770-414: The adults in Davis Inlet battled alcoholism and on Valentine's Day , 1992, six unattended children aged between six months and nine years died in a house fire while their parents were drinking at a Valentine's Day dance. About one-quarter of all adults in Davis Inlet had attempted suicide in the previous year, and between 1973 and 1995, there were 50 alcohol-related deaths in the community of 465. As
805-559: The area into CFB Goose Bay . Labrador Airways Limited provided air transportation to local communities. Located at Otter Creek is a seaplane base that also provided airlifts to local communities and tourist lodges in the interior of Labrador. Davis Inlet Davis Inlet was a Naskapi community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador , formerly inhabited by the Mushuau Innu First Nation . It
840-404: The base. With World War II in bloom, it took only five months to build an operational military airport on the leased territory. The first settlers to the area came from coastal Labrador to work with McNamara Construction Company, which was contracted to build the Goose Bay Air Force Base. Their first choice was Otter Creek, where they were told that it would be too close to the base. A new location
875-628: The expulsion concerned Innu dissatisfaction with the practice and application of the Canadian Criminal Code to its people. The Innu also stated that the RCMP did not have jurisdiction over their community. The standoff continued until March 1995 when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Government of Canada and the Mushuau Innu Band Council to establish Indigenous police officers to assist
910-495: The individual, and later reincarnates himself in another being". Jung also wrote: "Those Naskapi who pay attention to their dreams and who try to find their meaning and test their truth can enter into a greater connection with the Great Man. He favours such people and sends them more and better dreams. Thus the major obligation of an individual Naskapi is to follow the instructions given by his dreams, and then to give permanent form to their contents in art. Lies and dishonesty drive
945-452: The number of permanent Royal Canadian Air Force personnel to fewer than 100 all-ranks. The last NATO nations to use CFB Goose Bay for flight training, Germany and Italy, did not renew their leases after terminating in early 2006. The runway at Happy Valley-Goose Bay was also an alternative, but unused, landing site for NASA 's now-decommissioned Space Shuttle , because of its size and length. Prior to its amalgamation with Happy Valley,
980-427: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goose_Bay&oldid=1171619054 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1015-435: The town's supplies were transported by container vessels brought to the docking facilities located at Terrington Basin. These facilities were operated by Transport Canada . The shipping season usually lasted from June to December. In the summer, a ferry service connects Happy Valley-Goose Bay with Cartwright . Air Canada and Eastern Provincial Airways were the first air carriers in the area to carry passengers from outside
1050-462: The year and the low does so for six months. Snowfall averages nearly 406 cm (160 in) per year, and can occur in all months except July and August. Precipitation, at nearly 940 mm (37 in), is significant year-round and is heavy for a continental climate at its latitude. In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada , Happy Valley-Goose Bay had a population of 8,040 living in 3,072 of its 3,390 total private dwellings,
1085-609: Was chosen based upon the requirement to be at least 8.0 km (5 mi) from the base. In 1942, a new site was chosen that was first called Refugee Cove; it was not until 1955 that it eventually was renamed Happy Valley. The first three families to arrive to work at the construction of the base were the Saunders from Davis Inlet , the Broomfields from Big Bay, and the Perraults from Makkovik . Happy Valley's first school
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1120-532: Was named for its adjacent fjord , itself named for English explorer, John Davis , who in 1587 charted the region as part of ongoing efforts to find the Northwest Passage to the Pacific . The residents of Davis Inlet were relocated to the new community of Natuashish , 15 km (9.3 mi) away, in 2002. The community developed around 1924 during a period of sparse caribou populations when
1155-556: Was operated by a Mrs. Perrault from her home until 1946, when the Royal Canadian Air Force donated a building. The old one-room school was bought by Bella and Clarence Brown in early 1962 and turned into a family residence. In 1949, the Air Force donated a second building which became the North Star School. Mrs. Perrault also became Happy Valley's first librarian. Bella Brown took over as Happy Valley's librarian when
1190-407: Was released to the media of 6 children in Davis Inlet between the ages of 11 and 14 huffing gasoline in an unheated shack in winter and shouting that they wanted to die. Shamed by the negative publicity and international outcry surrounding the events in 1993, the Canadian government agreed to move the Innu to mainland Labrador, and in 2002 at a cost of nearly $ 200 million the community of Davis Inlet
1225-554: Was relocated to Natuashish . However, the problems of suicide, alcohol and solvent abuse followed the community and in 2008 they voted to outlaw alcohol entirely. The prohibition bylaw was upheld in a subsequent referendum in March 2010. In December 1993, the Mushuau Innu Band Council banished a provincial court judge and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) from the community. The public reasoning for
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