Happy Valley-Goose Bay

Happy Valley—Goose Bay

Happy Valley–Goose Bay, town, south-central Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on the western end of Lake Melville and near the mouth of the Churchill River. Goose Bay was established in 1941 as a military and air ferrying base operated by the United States and Canada. By the Goose Bay Agreement (1944) the U.S. Air Force leases a subsidiary base, also used as a transatlantic refueling stop for Canadian commercial aircraft. Happy Valley (inc. 1970), immediately east, served as a residential community for air base employees and amalgamated with Goose Bay in 1974. Pop. (2006) 7,572; (2011) 7,552.