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Gambo, NL, Town, pop 2072 (2006c), 2084 (2001c), inc 1980. Gambo is an amalgamation of 3 communities - Dark Cove, Middle Brook and Gambo (inc 1963) - stretching along the shore at the end of Freshwater Bay, a long indraft of BONAVISTA BAY. Gambo, whose name is from the Portuguese gama, meaning doe, or more likely from "gambo," a sledge to haul timber, first appears in the 1857 census and thereafter grew as a major lumbering, sawmilling and salmon-fishing centre.
In the 1860s David Smallwood (grandfather of Joseph SMALLWOOD) began a sizable sawmill, which became the first in Newfoundland powered by steam. After the trans-insular railway reached Gambo in the 1890s, the town became a link between coastal boats and the rail line. Residents continued to be employed cutting or processing timber products for other local mills and for large paper companies until a series of forest fires (especially in 1961) consumed most of the remaining stands. Although the railway ceased operations in 1988, Gambo on the route of the Trans-Canada Highway and at the start of the highway to northern Bonavista Bay, continues to be a major regional service centre.
 Gambo
Author
ROBERT D. PITT
Links to Other Sites
Gambo
The website for the Town of Gambo, a small community at the head of Freshwater Bay and birthplace of former premier J. R. Smallwood.
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