Prior to its amalgamation with Happy Valley, 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. The runway at Happy Valley-Goose Bay was also an alternative, but unused, landing site for the now-decommissioned NASA space shuttle, because of its size and length. 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. ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĬFB 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 the number of permanent Royal Canadian Air Force personnel to fewer than 100 all-ranks. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. The town is located on the southern shore of a peninsula created by Terrington Basin to the north and Goose Bay at the south.Ĭlimate data for Happy Valley-Goose Bay (1981−2010) Happy Valley-Goose Bay lies at the southwest end of Lake Melville near the mouth of the Churchill River. In 1963, the provincial government built Paddon Memorial Hospital. The Grenfell Mission operated the first medical facilities when it opened a nursing station in 1951. Bella Brown took over as Happy Valley's librarian when the North Star School's second building was donated as the new library. Perrault became Happy Valley's first librarian also. In 1949, the Air Force donated a second building which became the North Star School. The old one-room school was bought by Bella and Clarence Brown in the early 1962 and turned into a family residence.
Perrault from her home until 1946, when the Royal Canadian Air Force donated a building.
Happy Valley's first school was operated by a Mrs. 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. 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. A new location was chosen based upon the requirement to be at least five miles (8 km) from the base. Their first choice was Otter Creek, where they were told that it would have been too close to the base. 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. With World War II in bloom, it took only five months to build an operational military airport on the leased territory. Soon after the site was selected, men from the coast of Labrador began working on the base. Goose Air Base became a landing and refuelling stop for the Atlantic Ferry route. Docking facilities for transportation of goods and personnel were built at Terrington Basin. In the summer of 1941, Eric Fry, an employee of the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources on loan to 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.
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