Gore is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 rural community in central Hants County

Hants County, Nova Scotia

Hants County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia which was the home of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Alden Nowlan and Noel Doiron. The county of Hants was created June 17, 1781, and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport...

, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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. It is named after Sir Charles Stephen Gore

Charles Stephen Gore

Sir Charles Stephen Gore KH GCB was a British general.He served in Canada and fought in the Battle of Saint-Denis.The community of Gore, Nova Scotia is named after him when he served in Nova Scotia....

. The village was settled primarily by the 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants)

84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants)

The 84th Regiment of Foot was a British regiment in the American Revolutionary War that was raised to defend present day Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada from the constant land and sea attacks by American Revolutionaries...

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Primarily a farming district in the Rawdon Hills, Gore is home to Environment Canada

Environment Canada

Environment Canada , legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act Environment Canada (EC) (French: Environnement Canada), legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act Environment...

's doppler weather radar station "XGO". It was once home to the East Hants Courthouse that stood on the community's "Courthouse Hill" for 90 years until it burnt down in 1956. The courthouse was never rebuilt but today there is a memorial that marks the place where the courthouse once stood.

Gore is home to a famous annual mountain bike race named A-Gore-Aphobia taking place every July. A-Gore-Aphobia is a point series race put on by Bicycle Nova Scotia