Gander is a wildly picturesque small Atlantic Canadian town. In 2001, its population was barely over 9500 so when they took in nearly 6,700 frightened strangers who had no plans to land in the North Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Tis was the day when the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks forced 38 planes to land here. Then Hurricane Gabrielle came in as a North Atlantic hurricane that caused flooding in both Florida and Newfoundland in that very same September of 2001. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices