Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain18 heritage places lie within 100 km of Gordon
From Gordon, look 70 km away, to Wakefield, for the nearest place of the highest designation. The typical town has 18% of its homes from before 1961; here it is 28%.
3 places of the highest rank within 100 km of Gordon
Oldest of them is Old Carleton County Court House (1833), 80 km off. They stand in 8 towns, Edmundston, Woodstock and Grand Falls / Grand-Sault among them. By designation: 8 provincial or municipal listings, 4 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings and 3 heritage railway stations.
The 12 nearest, within 100 km
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Aroostook, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1906–1907 · 20 km away, in Tobique 20 |
| Government of Canada BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1958–1960 · 26 km away, in Grand Falls / Grand-Sault |
| Grand Falls Former National Transcontinental Railway StationHeritage Railway Station of Canada · 28 km away, in Grand Falls / Grand-Sault |
| Diggity SiteProvincial heritage place · 31 km away, in Kent |
| Florenceville BridgeLocal historic place · 51 km away, in Florenceville-Bristol |
| Hartland Covered BridgeNational Historic Site · 1901–1902 · 66 km away, in Wakefield |
| Old Carleton County Court HouseProvincial heritage place · 1833 · 80 km away, in Woodstock |
| P'tit Sault BlockhouseProvincial heritage place · 82 km away, in Edmundston |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Edmundston, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1929–1931 · 82 km away, in Edmundston |
| L. P. Fisher Public LibraryLocal historic place · 1914 · 82 km away, in Woodstock |
| Government of Canada BuildingRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1955–1956 · 83 km away, in Woodstock |
| Canadian National Railways Station, Edmundston, New BrunswickHeritage Railway Station · 1959–1960 · 83 km away, in Edmundston |
From 1833 on: the dated places within 100 km of Gordon
Out to 100 km from Gordon, outside the town: each place by when its record says building began.
Within 100 km, building dates exist for 12 places. 2 predate Confederation. The oldest is Old Carleton County Court House in Woodstock, from 1833.
Most of Gordon’s homes went up from 1981 to 2000: 35%
Few of Gordon’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 2.2%, the norm 15%. From 2016 to 2021 Gordon added 2.9% of its homes, less than the typical town’s 4.1%. Over half of the homes in Gordon were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Gordon and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon | 1,576 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Plaster Rock | 1,062 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Denmark | 1,412 | 0 | 0 | — |
Gordon in brief
Of the homes standing in Gordon, 28% went up before 1961, against 18% in the typical town.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
- Protection. National historic designation honours a place but binds only federal owners; a private building’s protection depends on its province or municipality.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Only Wikidata gives open access to listings on provincial and municipal registers outside Québec; without an article such a place is counted but not paged.
- The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.
Questions about Gordon’s history
How many historic places does Gordon have on the registers?
None within Gordon itself; the nearest is 20 km off: Canadian Pacific Railway Station, Aroostook, New Brunswick, in Tobique 20.
How old are the homes in Gordon?
28% of its homes were built before 1961, against 18% in the typical Canadian town.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).