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- On 9/11, the United States closed its airspace worried about further attacks. That closed airspace meant hundreds of planes and thousands of passengers had to find a new destination.
Among them were 38 planes and 6,000 passengers who landed in the small Newfoundland community of Gander.
Their story has become one of the happier stories from that dark day.
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The Day The World Came To Town by Jim DeFede
9/11 Memorial and Museum: https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/lend-hand-do-what-you-can-remembering-generosity-gander
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm27vpe7z7lo
Global News: https://globalnews.ca/news/12054110/gander-nl-9-11-25th-anniversary/
CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7331319
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - In 1956, the Suez Crisis erupted and threatened to drag humanity into a Third World War that could go nuclear.
That crisis was averted through thanks to the hard work of people like Lester B. Pearson through the creation of the UN Peacekeepers. For his efforts, Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Memoris 2 by Lester B. Pearson
The Diplomat Lester B Pearson and the Suez Crisis by Antony Anderson
Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peacekeeping
Government of Canada: https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/classroom-materials/lesson-plans/faces-peace-canadian-peacekeepers
Canadian War Museum: https://www.warmuseum.ca/remembrance-day-resources/canada-and-peacekeeping-operations
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Before he ever became a baseball legend in the big leagues, Jackie Robinson played a season in Montreal with the Royals.
He called it one of the happiest periods of his life due to the positive reception he and his wife received in the city.
Montreal played a big role in the story of #42 Jackie Robinson.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - For almost 50 years, Canada and Denmark were at war over a tiny island in the Arctic. Hans Island was only one kilometre wide, with nothing on it, but it was an important spot along the border when it came to access to surrounding resources.
No bullets were ever fired, but a lot of shots of liquor were enjoyed.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Over the space of eight months in 1942, an 2,700 kilometres of highway was built from Dawson Creek, BC to Alaska. It was an incredible project that took the international cooperation of Canada and the United States.
Listen to the other side of this episode on Hostile History with David Borys.
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Legion magazine: https://legionmagazine.com/builders-of-the-alaska-highway/
Alaska Highway: A Historic Photographic Journey by Jane Haigh
Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/services/infrastructure-buildings/bridges-docks-dams/alaska-highway/about.html
Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alaska-highway
The Milepost: https://themilepost.com/articles/history-of-the-alaska-highway/
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