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Gordon’s Celebrates Milestone with a Makeover - KINGSTON, ON – May 15, 2007 – In an era when businesses are lucky to survive for five years, a venerated Kingston business is celebrating its 50th birthday. Mayor Harvey Rosen and Chamber of Commerce President Mark Lewis took part in 50th birthday celebrations for Gordon’s Estate Services today... click here to continue reading...

Local auction company moves with the times - KINGSTON, ON - May 22, 2007 - It's quite a leap from auctioneering steers to steering peopple through the maze of tasks when settling an estate or downsizing, but a local mainstay in the business is changing with the times... click here to continue reading...

Business is on the Move - TORONTO, ON - December, 2007 - Let's face it. moving your home is a big hassle. "We can handle everything for a client, including real estate purchase or sale, selling unwanted items and moving household contents" entrepreneur Alicia Gordon says... click here to continue reading...

Historic family hotel sold at auction - KINGSTON, ON - Dec 15, 2007 - The historic Hotel Kenney in Jones Falls was sold at an Auction on Thursday. A release from Gordon's Estate Services said the purchaser, Franklin P. Folts, has no plans to drastically change the hotel, which has been operated by the Kenney family for 130 years... click here to continue reading...

Famed hotel hits the auction block - KINGSTON, ON - November 16, 2007 - After four generations of ownership by one famil for more than 120 years, Hotel Kenney in Jones Falls is up for sale. "The bottom line is we have worked hard and how we're going to enjoy the fruits of our labours" said Joe Kenney. the hotel's current owner. The hotel will be auctioned off to the highest bidder, December 12th by Gordon's Estate Services... click here to continue reading...

Finally, a vacation - KINGSTON, ON - November 16, 2007 - A landmark on the Rideau Canal system is on the auction block: the Hotel Kenney at Jones Falls. May the outgoing owners enjoy the freedom this sale will bring... click here to continue reading...

2007 Women in Business Cover Winner - KINGSTON, ON - November 10, 2007 - It was following the birth of her second child when Alicia Gordon realized that she was destined to become an auctioneer. At the time, she was working alongside her husband, Barry, for his family's business, the Kingston Livestock Market... click here to continue reading...

Going once, going twice...Gold course north of Kingston on auction block - KINGSTON, ON - October 18, 2007 - Over 25 years of golf course ownership, Cecil Harnden has often heard a 19th hole lament of patrons. To many, owning a course would be a golfer's dream come true... click here to continue reading...

Canada is behind the curve in auction sales - June, 2007 - The traditional real estate method is a "successfully inefficient" means of selling properting, working on 75 to 80 percent of the time, says a Belleville Ontario Realtor... click here to continue reading...

Preserving a piece of history - KINGSTON, ON - May 14, 2007 - Mile Square Block property seeks heritage designation. A historic rural property inside Mile Square Block in the west end, will be sold next month and it will likely stay untouched, even though the rest of the area may teem with development... click here to continue reading...

Star's farm sold - PICTON, ON - October 26, 2005- A vacant lakefront property that actor Robert Ulrich planned to turn into a pioneer farm village has been bought by a pal of the late hollywood star, a realtor said... click here to continue reading...

Let the bidding begin - KINGSTON, ON - October 12, 2005 - A waterfront property in Prince Edward Coutny owned by the late actor Robert Ulrich is goig under the auctioneers hammer this month... click here to continue reading...

Loyalists's descendants sell 203-year-old family homestead - PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ON - September 22, 2005 - For the first time in 203 years, the locally famous Redner family homestead, located in the village of Rednersville, in Prince Edward County, is available for sale... click here to continue reading...

Grenville Christian College - waterfront property sold at auction - MAITLAND, ON - This past Thursday, four acres of waterfront land were auctioned off at Grenville Christian College. "It was a well attended auction," stated auctioneer Manson Slik, of Gordon's Estate Services, who presided over the auction on Thursday night... click here to continue reading...