Gordon is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

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, within the

Rural Municipality of Rosser Rosser is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba, lying adjacent to the northwest side of Winnipeg and part of the Winnipeg Metro Region. Its population as of the 2016 Census was 1,372. It is situated along Provincia ...

. The community is centred on PTH 6, approximately north-west of

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and south-east of

Grosse Isle Grosse Isle (, , "big island") is an island located in the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. It is one of the islands of the 21-island Isle-aux-Grues archipelago. It is part of the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, locate ...

. It is named for James Gordon, who was in charge of leases in the General Manager's Office of the

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History

The railway point on the CNR Oak Point subdivision, operated by the Canadian National Railway, was established in 1905. In 1928, a grain elevator was built by

Manitoba Pool Elevators Manitoba Pool Elevators was a grain trade company founded in 1924. It became a subsidiary of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool until November 1932, when the Pool declared bankruptcy. In 1998 Alberta Wheat Pool and Manitoba Pool Elevators merged to fo ...

. It was closed in 1988 and demolished the next year.{{Cite web, title=Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Gordon, RM of Rosser), url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/gordonelevator.shtml, access-date=2020-11-01, website=www.mhs.mb.ca A post office was opened in 1929, but it was closed in 1952.

References

Unincorporated communities in Manitoba