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The first steam-driven sawmill in Newfoundland was established here. The first-way office was established in 1882 under Waymaster Simeon Osmond. In 1964, the three separate communities of Dark Cove, Middle Brook, and Gambo were incorporated as one town known as Dark Cove-Middle Brook-Gambo. In 1980, the town officially changed its name to Gambo ...
Gambo may refer to: Places. Gambo, Central African Republic, a town in the Central African Republic; Gambo, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town in northeastern ...
A weekly television series was co-produced with the Gambo family at WJZ-TV as a way to showcase the best talent in the Mid-Atlantic region which aired in Baltimore and syndicated to York, Pennsylvania, and Keyser, West Virginia. Thrasher became one of the company's early stars. [27]
Canal boats were unable to compete with rail service and the canal was unused after the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway reached Gambo Falls (by then called Newhall) in 1871. [5] Oriental Powder Company employees assumed control of the former canal dam at Sebago Lake when the canal locks ceased operations; but water users in Westbrook, Maine ...
Gambo Sawaba (1933–2001) - widely regarded as the pioneer of fighting for the liberation of northern women [9] Tanimowo Ogunlesi - co-founder of the National Council of Women's Societies [10] Wuraola Esan (1909–1985) - educator and advocate for women in traditional and legislative spaces
Mint Brook was a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador near Gambo. It is generally recognized as the first 'inland' settlement on the island and during its existence was very much a sawmill/logging community. Joseph R. Smallwood (December 24, 1900 - December 17, 1991), Newfoundland's first premier, was born in the settlement of Mint Brook.