Surplus government of Canada properties.

The Dominion Coal Blocks, which are located east of Fernie, British Columbia. Parcel 73 covers 2,000 hectares of land, while Parcel 83 covers more than 18,000 hectares of land. Since the year 1905, the federal government has owned the Dominion Coal Blocks.The Fraser Institute is calling for the devolution and privatization of all federal properties in British Columbia, including the holdings of the CBC, Canada Mortgage and Housing, Canada Post, Agriculture Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Veterans Affairs and the National Parks.

The Dominion Coal Blocks near Fernie, British Columbia, owned by Natural Resources Canada.. 

Surplus Canada Post properties

4877 Argyle Street (and 4th)
Port Alberni, British Columbia
Land Area: 0.1370 ha.    1 Building.

Government of Canada Building
1323 5th Avenue (at Quebec)
Prince George, British Columbia
Land Area: 0.6550 ha.  1 Building

2 Laird Drive in Toronto, Ontario - a developer wants to build a 7-storey, 78 unit apartment building on the land. The Canada Post building was apparently worth $835,000 dollars.

The Notre-Dame-de-Grace Post Office in Montreal:

Notre- Dame- de- Grace Post Office in Montreal. Quebec.

Government of Canada Building
192 Stewart Street West
Vanderhoof, British Columbia
Land Area: 0.1204 ha.   1 Building

Government of Canada Building

62 Victoria Street West

Kensington, Prince Edward Island(Malpeque)

Disposal of the whole property.

Government of Canada Building

450 Main Street

Alberton, Prince Edward Island

Disposal of the whole property.

Government of Canada Building

120 Main Street

Guysborough, Nova Scotia

Disposal of the whole property.

Land Area: 0.1615 ha.    1 Building.

Government of Canada Building
15 Main Street
Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia
Land Area: 0.0697 ha.   1 Building

Government of Canada Building
1315 Union Street
Canso, Nova Scotia
Disposal of the whole property.
Land Area: 0.1070 ha.  1 Building

The Winnipeg Canada Post complex on Graham Avenue is a 12-storey office tower and mail processing
facility.

The Paul Martin Building in Windsor, Ontario.

The main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A former Canada Post and Bank of Canada Building in Toronto was sold to financier E.P. Taylor and then to Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc:

The former Canada Post property at 10 Toronto Street, Toronto Ontario.

Canada Customs buildings and land

Customs House-Government of Canada Building
816 Government Street
Victoria, British Columbia
Land Area: 0.2558 ha.    1 Building.

Property Number 24426
VACANT LAND (FORMER TEMPORARY BUILDING #8 near Sir John Carling Building)
870 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
Land Area: 3.6420 ha. or 8 acres.

The Sir John Carling Building in Ottawa, Ontario.

Service Canada Buildings and Land

Sir Lionel Chevrier (Land)

111 Water Street East

Cornwall, Ontario

Land Area: 1.2493 ha. or 3 acres.

Pinetree Line sites-The Pinetree Line was a series of radar stations operated by NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defence Command.) Located in the the northern United States and in Canada,  most of the Pinetree Line stations in Canada were decommissioned. (Information from Wikipedia):
CFS Alsask SK
CFS Armstrong ON
CFS Baldy Hughes BC
CFS Barrington NS
CFB Beausejour MB
RCAF Beaverbrook NS
CFS Beaverlodge AB
Cape Makkovik Air Station NL
Cartwright Air Station NL
CFS Chibougamau QC-
CFS Cold Lake AB
CFB Comox BC
Cut Throat Island Air Station NL
CFS Dana SK
CFS Edgar ON
Elliston RIdge Air Station NL
CFS Falconbridge ON - The military base was sold via an Order in Council-
Order in Council - October 23, 1986-The Surplus Crown Assets Act
    The former CFS Falconbridge. Authority for the Minister to sell 259 ha of land to General Leasholds Ltd.
Fox Harbour Air Station NL
CFS Foymount ON
Frobisher Bay AB
CFB Gander NL
Goose Air Force Base NL
CFS Gypsumville MB
CFS Hoberg BC
Hopedale Air Station NL
CFS Kamloops BC
CFS Mont Apica QC
CFS Moosonee ON
RCAF Station Pagwa ON
RCAF Parent QC
CFS Penhold AB - The Diefenbunker at Penhold was systematically demolished by the federal government after the Hell's Angels or Satan's Choice indicated that they wanted to buy the property.

The former Diefenbunker at CFS Penhold in Alberta.

RCAF Station Puntzi Mountain BC
CFS Ramore ON
CFS Resolution Island NU
Saglek Air Station NL
CFS Senneterre QC
CFS Sioux Lookout ON
Spotter Island Air Station NL
Saint Anthony Air Station NL
Redcliff Air Station NL
CFS St. Margaret's NB
RCAF St. Sylvestre QC
Stephenville NL
CFS Sydney NL
RCAF Tofino BC
CFS Yorkton SK
The Pinetree Line site that is currently "surplus" is located in Stephenville:
Property Number 00854
PINETREE SITE
Main Street
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador

Land Area: 142.7660 ha.

Surplus Agriculture Canada Experimental Farms
The Delhi Research Farm in Norfolk County, Ontario.
In 2005, the federal government wanted to close four major experimental farms:
1.) The Dairy and Swine Research Centre in Kapuskasing, Ontario.
2.) The Atlantic Cool Crop Research Centre in St. John's NL.
3.) The Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
4.) The Crop and Livestock Research Centre in Nappan, Nova Scotia.
In the year 1988, 91 acres of land were annexed from the Experimental Farm in Ottawa, the Clyde/Merivale lands.

The Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, 

The B.C. government dissolved the Provincial Capital Commission.

The Provincial Capital Commission, a Crown corporation, owns many iconic properties in Victoria, British Columbia, including:
 The CPR Steamship Terminal,
 Crystal Garden,
Victoria's Inner Harbour,
The Belleville Ferry Terminal,
St. Ann's Academy
 The Wharf Street tourist centre.
Ship Point

 Architect Francis Rattenbury designed the Parliament Buildings in Victoria; the CPR Empress Hotel and the CPR Steamship Terminal.

Victoria's Inner Harbour.The Fairmont Empress Hotel, a former CPR hotel, can be seen in the background.

The CPR Steamship Terminal in Victoria, British Columbia.

B.C. NDP MLA Carole James said: "There's a concern you could see the commercialization of these heritage buildings or the selling off of these assets that belong to everyone."(From: MetroNews Canada-Luke Simcoe,November 21 2013.)


Post Offices are sold through a multinational real estate company, CB Richard Ellis. I saw the CB Richard Ellis high-rise office building in Newport Beach, California,which is across the street from a high-end shopping mall, Fashion Island.


In 1991, the BC government managed 379 provincial parks covering 5,364,000 hectares of land.(From a 1991 Environment Canada directory.)

The City of Ottawa designated the B.A. International Building a heritage property.

The Canadian Bank Note Company, 145 Richmond Road Ottawa.(Wikipedia).

In August of 2013, the Canadian Bank Note Company purchased the B.A. International Building:

The British American Bank Note Company Building, 975 Gladstone Avenue, Ottawa.

1892-CPR Engine.

From: The Ottawa Public Library (A Carnegie Library), downtown.

Privatization benefits the rich, not ordinary citizens.

A February 1980 article in Macleans Magazine by Liberal Senator Eugene Forsey.

Many individuals and corporations profited from the sale of Canadian Crown property:
Prince al Waleed bin Talal - owned Canada's CN and CPR hotels.
Carl Icahn - owned the CN and CPR hotels
Bill Gates is a major shareholder of a privatized Crown corporation, the Canadian National Railway.
The Six Flags Corporation - the American amusement park company bought La Ronde, part of Expo 67 in Montreal.
Donald Trump bought Canadian National Railway land in Toronto and built the Trump Tower on it.
The Slemon Park Corporation was practically given the massive Canadian Forces Base in Summerside Prince Edward Island.

 At one time, "The Universal Man" stood at the base of the CN Tower-- the statue is now relegated to a shopping centre parking lot:

"The Universal Man" by Gerald Gladstone, in Toronto Ontario.

Former CPR properties that are National Historic Sites of Canada.

New Brunswick
The McAdam Railway Station
Quebec
Montebello-Manoir Papineau, home of Louis-Joseph Papineau.
Montreal- Windsor Station. In the year 2007, Canadian Pacific marketed Windsor Station.The classified ad is from the Globe and Mail newspaper:

Quebec City- The Fairmont Chateau Frontenac Hotel.
.Sainte-Genevieve-de-Berthier- The Berthier Railway Station.
Trois-Rivieres- The Canadian Pacific Forest Product Mill. (Demolished in 2002).
Ontario
Toronto- The John Street Roundhouse, built in 1929.
Toronto - Union Station - Once owned by Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk, now owned by the City of Toronto, which is ruining the building.
Manitoba
Canadian Pacific Railway Station- sold to the Province of Manitoba.
British Columbia
Banff National Park- The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel is a National Historic Site of Canada and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Kelowna- The Myra Canyon Section of the Kettle Valley Railway. The Kettle Valley railroad bed is now part of the Trans Canada Trail.
Victoria- The Fairmont Empress Hotel.

The war against Canada's architectural history.

The following laws are responsible for the scorched earth policy that destroyed many symbols of Canada's railway ,military, industrial, broadcasting and maritime history:
Federal Laws
The Canada Post Corporation Act
The Museums Act
The Surplus Crown Assets Act
The Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act - The loophole: Section 3.4: "This Act applies to lighthouses that are the property of Her Majesty in right of Canada."
The Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act - The loophole: Only designated heritage railway stations that are still owned by a railway company under federal jurisdiction are subject to the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act.

The Royal Canadian Mint Act (1985) - The Mint has the power to "do all things" (melt down, I presume) to medals, commemorative plaques and tokens made of gold, silver and platinum. Every federal government building in this country featured Canada's Coat of Arms, which contained gold, silver and platinum. Thousands of Coats of Arms were stripped from Dominion Buildings when they were privatized during the 1980's and 1990's. The Air Canada Centre in Toronto was a federal buildings ,Canada Post Headquarters.


The Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay Street in Toronto, was a Canada Post building.

The Broadcasting Act-The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sold the Jarvis Street Headquarters in Toronto to the National Ballet School of Canada and developers. In 1979 I appeared on the TV show "Take 30" and the walls were lined with portraits of CBC radio and TV luminaries.

The National Capital Act (1985) applies to National Capital Commission properties in Ottawa.

Federal heritage laws supersede provincial and municipal heritage laws.
The Ontario Realty Corporation owned, or still owns, the Bowmanville Prison of War Camp, Toronto's Don Jail, Guelph Reformatory, the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital and Kingston Psychiatric Hospital.

Individuals who fought to save Canadian landmarks in the past; and people who are currently trying to save historic buildings.
 A Mayor of Toronto John Sewell.
A Federal Minister of Agriculture Bud Olson.
A Federal Minister of Agriculture Eugene Whelan-The Hon. Bud Olson and the Hon.Eugene Whelan
prevented the sale of the Experimental Farm in Ottawa to developers.
Kingston,Ontario Councillor Bill Glover is trying to prevent the destruction of the Kingston Pen.

Writer Andy Russell, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Agriculture Minister Bud Olson at the Lethbridge, Alberta airport.(1972) I took this photo.

Organizations that are preserving Canadian National Historic Sites and Monuments and heritage buildings:
The Heritage Canada Foundation.
The Architectural Conservancy of Ontario.
Save the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse - Nova Scotia.
Friends of Windsor Station - Montreal.
Friends of the Farm Ottawa and Friends of the Experimental Farm Ottawa.
The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society saved the Georgia Cannery in Steveston village, Richmond, British Columbia. The Cannery Row in Monterey, California is immortalized in a John Steinbeck novel; a 1982 movie starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, and a Bob Dylan song ---"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".

Save the Toronto Railway Museum! John Street Roundhouse, 255 Bremner Blvd.,Toronto, Ontario.
The Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society.
Save Postal Station K - Toronto, Ontario. See the Globe and Mail article "A new uprising at Montgomery's Tavern."
Save the Notre-Dame-de-Grace and Snowdon post offices - Montreal.

Historic properties that should be preserved:
 The Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park, railway hotels, grain elevators, lighthouses and Cold War Diefenbunkers should be saved from wrecking balls.

Government of Canada Buildings-When a federal building is transferred to a Crown corporation, the building loses all heritage designation and protection. The de Havilland Aircraft Building at CFB Downsview in Toronto ,Ontario was a Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Downsview Park is a Crown corporation.
The Prison for Women in Kingston was a Classified Federal Heritage Building when it was owned by Corrections Canada.

The Canadian Bank Note Company Building, 145 Richmond Road, Westboro Village Ottawa.

The Quadrant in London, England-The Dominion Public Building in Toronto is similar in design to buildings in The Quadrant, Regent Street, London England.( Wikipedia).

The Dominion Public Building, 1 Front Street West Toronto.The building apparently is worth $74,153,000.

"The Score" was filmed in the Montreal Customs House:

The Montreal Customs House,105 McGill Street - Montreal, Quebec.

Forestry Canada fire lookout towers-The CBC television program "The Forest Rangers" was filmed in Kleinburg, Ontario from 1963 until 1965.

Dominion Observatory Ottawa.

Dominion Observatories-During the 1990's the federal government planned to bulldoze Ottawa's Dominion Observatory,, because of budget cuts. The Gonzales Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia was sold to the Capital Regional District in Victoria, B.C.

Gonzales Observatory, Victoria.

Armouries- The Windsor Ontario Armoury was sold to the University of Windsor. A condo developer bought Wallis House in Ottawa, which was built in 1873.
 The Bessborough Armoury and Seaforth Armoury in Vancouver are Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings.

My Dad is walking past the Aberdeen Pavilion in Ottawa during the 1940's.

Former railway properties

The following properties were owned by the CPR. The real estate arm of the CPR, Marathon Realty, was sold to the American conglomerate General Electric and another firm.
Montreal, Quebec
Adirondack Subdivision
Angus Shops
Cremazie
Dorval Station Grounds
Drummond and Laugauchetiere Street - Land and Buildings.
Hochelaga Yard
Jean-Talon Train Station - was sold to the City of Montreal in 1984.
Le Chateau Champlain Hotel
Mile End Yard (Village of Cote St. Louis).
Papineau Yard
Place Viger
Place du Canada and the IBM-Marathon Tower were built on CPR land.
Pointe Claire - Pt. Valois Station.
St. Denis Yard
Wentworth Golf Course - Ville St. Pierre and City of Lachine -

The former Jean-Talon CPR train station in Montreal, Gare Jean-Talon.(Wikipedia photo)

Toronto, Ontario- The Dufferin Mall, a shopping centre, was constructed on CPR land.
 Land North of King Street East and Dufferin Street and south of Queen Street, Mile 1.83 Galt Subdivision.
Bathurst North of Lakeshore.
Cherry Street Yard, fronting Mill Street.
Fez City Yards, Bathurst.
Fronting Yonge Street and Shaftesbury Avenue with Land and Buildings.
Front and Beachell Streets.
Fronting on Front Street and Spadina Avenue.
Mile 4.03 - North Toronto, Shaw Street.
North Toronto Subdivision, fronting Birch Avenue.
Parkdale Yards, fronting King Street.
A parcel of land of irregular feature fronting Marlborough Avenue and Yonge Street - Summerhill Station - Marathon planned to bulldoze the train station and build 700 houses on the site,but they faced bitter opposition from the community. The saga is documented in the 1971 book "Marlborough Marathon - One Street Against a Developer" by Canadian historian J.L Granatstein.
Royal York Hotel.
Union Station - Marathon wanted to knock down Union Station to facilitate the construction of a development called "Metro City." The City of Toronto eventually bought the landmark, and the City is now selectively demolishing the building.
Roy Thomson Hall was built on CPR reversionary land.
West Toronto Yard - Keele and West Toronto.

Staines, Ontario - Scarborough - Fronting Finch Avenue.
Scarborough - Warden Avenue.
Etobicoke - North Queen Street.

Calgary, Alberta - (Telecommunications Building Site) - A parcel of land at the South East corner of 2nd Street S.E. and 9th Avenue S.E. Acreage - 0.69. Book Value - $1 Dollar.
The Husky Tower is a 600 foot observation tower and revolving restaurant, built in 1968.
Palliser Hotel.

Vancouver, British Columbia
Coal Harbour
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver

The Hotel Vancouver in British Columbia. (Wikipedia photo)

Victoria, British Columbia
CPR Steamship Terminal-The Royal London Wax Museum was forced to move a few years ago.
Crystal Garden
Empress Hotel.

Quebec City, Quebec
Le Chateau Frontenac Hotel - The terrace level (basement) is being deconstructed to build a new banquet hall.
Fronting Haldimand Street and Mont Carmel Street. Land - $44, 593.  Building - U.C.C. - $68,571.
Gare du Palais (Palace Station) - is similar in design to the Fairmont Chateau Frontenac Hotel.

Gare du Palais in Quebec City, Quebec.

Winnipeg, Manitoba-The Royal Alexandra Hotel is gone, and the CPR station was sold to the Manitoba provincial government.

Lethbridge, Alberta - The Lethbridge Community Health Centre is located in the former train station, 801 1st. Avenue South. Two of my brothers worked for the CPR in Lethbridge in the early 1970's.

Edmonton, Alberta- Strathcona Station. Decommissioned in 1980.

More Ontario properties that Marathon acquired during the years 1966 and 1967.
Belleville - Mile 112.6 - Between Division and Ontario.
Belleville Station.
Bowmanville - Liberty Street.
Brockville - South side of Louis Street, Land and Buildings. Concession Road.
Carelton Place - Highway 29.
Chatham - Prince Street; Adelaide and King; Centre and Park.
Cobourg - Mile 136.5 and Mile 136.6 Fronting Old Lakeshore Road.
Durham - Lambton Street.
Guelph - Fronting on Speedvale Avenue.
Kingston - Mile 102, Fronting Patrick Street.
London - Talbot and Oxford; Spanner Street; Waterloo and Kenneth.
North Bay - Timmins Street.
Ottawa - Mile 84.6 - Fronting St. Laurent Boulevard.
Parry Sound - Armstrong Street.
Perth - Harvey Street.
Port Hope - Mile 141.3 - King Street.
Smiths Falls - Land fronting William and Victoria.
Sudbury - Lorne, Elm and Brady.
Whitby - Station Grounds.

Lands - Canadian Niagara Falls.


During the mid-1970's I studied journalism at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta.
 The Calgary Albertan newspaper printed MRC's weekly journal. My classmates and I visited the Albertan printing plant, a building located on CPR land. Marathon Realty Assistant General Manager Rod Sykes raised the rent on the printing plant, from $900 dollars a year to $20,000 dollars a year. Rod Sykes later became mayor of Calgary. (From:"Canadian Pacific-A Portrait of Power" by Susan Goldenberg, page 14.)

Duff Roblin planned to redevelop a CPR property in downtown Ottawa, Ontario that was eventually sold to the Westin Hotel corporation. ("Canadian Pacific-A Portrait of Power" Page 134.)





More CPR properties that Marathon Realty owned in 1966:
Alberta
Calgary - Laggan Subdivision - Section 15 and 5 and a half, and NW Section 16, Twp. 24, Rge. 1, W 5th M. - 39.42 acres. $1 dollar.
Olds - Mile 56.3 Red Deer Subdivision - 13.58 acres, $1,127 dollars and 10 cents.
Didsbury - Mile 48.4, Red Deer Subdivision - 12.98 acres. $1,190 dollars and 20 cents.
Carstairs - Mile 39.4, Red Deer Subdivision - 9.73 acres. $700 dollars and 92 cents.
Calgary (Turner Siding) Mile 5.0, Macleod Subdivision - NE Section 21, Twp. 23, Rge. 1, W 5th M. 7.19 acres. $388 dollars and 26 cents.
Innisfail - Mile 75.25, Red Deer Subdivision - 2.80 acres. $219 dollars and 24 cents.
Crossfield - Mile 28.9 Red Deer Subdivision - 8.9 acres, $689 dollars and 87 cents.
Cochrane - Mile 22.86, Laggan Subdivision  27.73, $11 dollars and 45 cents.
Canmore - Mile 673, Laggan Subdivision  49.14 acres, $1 dollar.

Ontario 
Toronto, Ontario - A parcel of land of irregular figure, City of Toronto, County of York, fronting on Millard and Parliament Streets. $1,940 dollars.
Toronto - Galt Subdivision - City of Toronto, County of York, fronting on Cariboo and Osler Avenue - $2,028 dollars. The Ontario provincial government's Go Transit operates on Galt Subdivision railway tracks.
Sudbury - Mileage 78.12 - Cartier Subdivision - $99 dollars.
London - Mileage 0.04 - Windsor Subdivision - A parcel of land of irregular feature, City of London, County of Middlesex, fronting on Richmond and Pall Mall Streets - Book Value - $175 dollars.
Windsor - City of Windsor, County of Essex, fronting on Tecumseh Road. $3,351.00

Quebec
Montreal - Lot 4720, Parish of Montreal, Westmount Subdivision - Property Section L63B - $4,575 dollars.
Montreal West - Mileage 0.1 Winchester Subdivision $13,924 dollars.
Sherbrooke - $38.00.
Sherbrooke - $47.00
Iberville - Adirondack Subdivision - $171.00.
Magog - A parcel of land of irregular feature, forming Pt. Lot 1678, Town of Magog, fronting St. Patrick and Millette Streets.$28 dollars.
Magog - Town of Magog, fronting on Main Street. $25.00 dollars.

My father loved beautiful buildings in Germany.

I have all the negatives for these pictures, will develop them soon:

Postcards

Soest, Germany.

Europa-Center and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtniskirche in Berlin, Germany.

Cathedral Hauptstadt in Berlin, Germany.

Westfalen, Germany.

Hotel Barolina and Kino International, Berlin.

       

Railway properties

Reversionary land in Banff, Alberta.

From: A 1990's Marathon Realty corporate report, found at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.

Marathon Realty, the real estate arm of the Canadian Pacific Railway, sold railway hotels, buildings, train stations, land, air rights and roundhouses that should have reverted to the Crown.Marathon properties in Vancouver, British Columbia included False Creek ,the Expo '86 land, Coal Harbour and Yaletown.
Railway Hotels that were sold to the multinational corporation Fairmont Hotel's and Resorts.
Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia - The Quebec pension fund Caisse du depot et placment du Quebec is selling the Fairmont Empress.

The Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. (Photo from Wikipedia.)

Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Alberta.
Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario.
Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City - The hotel was a filming location for the Alfred Hitchcock movie "I Confess" starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. .
Chateau Montebello in Montebello, Quebec
Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta.
Chateau Lake Louise in Lake Louise, Alberta.
 Kenauk resort near Montebello. Quebec - Fairmont is divesting the 65,000 acre resort.
During the late 1980's, Marathon Realty sold the Chateau Champlain Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.
A true Canadian, someone who loves this country, would never have sold the railway hotels to a foreign entity.
 The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci wrote about the foreign invasion of Italy created by privatization, in her book "The Rage and the Pride." Ms. Fallaci was particularity incensed by the fact that many cultural institutions in her beloved Florence, Italy are foreign-owned. When Silvio Berlusconi was prime minister of Italy, he compiled an 800-page list of state-owned museums, landmarks, prisons, beaches and islands that he planned to place at disposal,see the Economist article "The Colosseum is not (yet) for sale."

Train Stations
1.) The Summerhill-North Toronto CPR station in Toronto, Ontario - Now owned by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. If the LCBO is privatized, the building will be transferred to the Ontario Realty Corporation - a Crown corporation that privatized provincially owned buildings and land, including :
Guelph Reformatory; the Bowmanville Prisoner of War Camp/Training School for Boys; the 348-acre Rideau Regional Centre in Smiths Falls; the London Psychiatric Hospital and Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital.
 Ontario Realty Corporation still owns the Don Jail in Toronto and Kingston Psychiatric Hospital including Rockwood  Asylum.
Marathon Realty planned to build 700 houses on the grounds of Summerhill Station, see the 1971 book "Marlborough Marathon: One Street Against a Developer" by Canadian historian J.L. Granatstein.

Summerhill Station in Toronto, Ontario. (Wikipedia).

2.) Union Station on Front Street in Toronto, Ontario was co-owned by the CNR and CPR - The Beaux-Arts train station is currently being "selectively demolished." Sold via a Federal Order-in-Council to the City of Toronto (building); Metrolink (train shed and tracks) and  Toronto Terminals Railway (operator). A tunnel linked Union Station to the Royal York Hotel across the street.
3.) The Victoria Avenue station and yard in my hometown, Smiths Falls, Ontario.
4.) Windsor Station in Montreal, Quebec - former headquarters of the CPR.
5.)  Winnipeg, Manitoba station -  the Manitoba government realizes how important this building is, the former train station is a provincial heritage building.

 Former Winnipeg, Manitoba CPR station. (Photo from www.gov.mb.ca)

Buildings
1.) CPR Steamship Terminal in Victoria, B.C. - Now owned by a provincial Crown corporation, the Provincial Capital Commission. The B.C. government is planning to sell Crown assets worth $700 million dollars, allegedly to erase the deficit.
2.) Crystal Garden in Victoria, B.C. - A provincial Crown asset.
Roundhouses
1.) The CPR John Street Roundhouse in Toronto, Ontario - The heritage property may be demolished so that Hydro One can build subterranean transformers.

My mother, niece and a friend are walking towards the CPR High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. I took the photo in May of 1990.

Spiral Tunnels
1.) The tunnel located at Kicking Horse Pass in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. The National Parks in British Columbia should be devolved to the B.C. provincial government, according to the 1990's document Introduction When a Country, a Fraser Institute document.

 The Fraser Institute is also recommending the privatization of all Canada Post, Veterans Affairs, Canada Mortgage and Housing and Fisheries and Oceans properties in British Columbia.
Federally-owned parks in the province, whose motto is "Splendour without diminishment", are---Yoho National Park; Mount Revelstoke National Park; Glacier National Park; Kootenay National Park; Gwaii Haanas National Park and Pacific Rim National Park.

Land - Drilling, mining, timber and water rights
 The American conglomerate General Electric and Oxford Realty paid almost a billion dollars in 1996 for the Marathon Realty property portfolio.GE Energy is a major oil and gas drilling subsidiary of General Electric.
Canadian Pacific was a major shareholder in timber company MacMillan Bloedel and mining company Cominco.
Land beneath the Husky Tower/Calgary Tower in Calgary, Alberta
 The tower was built on the grounds of a demolished CPR train station. A tunnel connected the train station to the CPR Palliser Hotel.
Land beneath an office tower called Metro Hall in Toronto
The Municipality of Toronto paid Marathon $60 million dollars for the land. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford recently suggested that Metro Hall City Hall should be sold.(From: "Rob Ford pushes selling Metro Hall" by Paul Moloney, Toronto Star, June 11 2013.)
Land beneath Dufferin Mall in Toronto and Place d'Orleans in Ottawa.
Land beneath BC Place in Vancouver B.C. - Despite a $500 million dollar renovation bill, the stadium may be privatized.
Rights-of-Way
The False Creek Right-of-Way in Vancouver, British Columbia was decommissioned by the CPR in 1989. A few years later, a developer purchased part of the land. (From: "A Railway,a City, and the Public Regulation of Private Property.").

A 1985 court decision stated that any lands not needed by the railway reverted to the people of Canada:
Held: Order Accordingly
2.) As the lands were no longer necessary for the use of the railway and thus were not used for the purposes of the railway, the lands must be restored to the Crown.
(Attorney General of Canada v Canadian Pacific Limited and Marathon Realty Company Limited - February 1985.)

German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber told The Star that Canadians will go out of their minds when they find out what he knows. "Schreiber seeks public inquiry- Canadians 'will go out of their minds' when they hear full story, he says in jailhouse interview" by Tracey Tyler, thestar.com, November 10 2007.
Karlheinz Schreiber said:
"Though I must not go into it at the moment, when you have some questions later, I am prepared to speak about the Americans involved, everybody; the FBI, the CIA everybody... It benefited the Americans and the Europeans to stop the train industry."
The "Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act" has the following loophole:
"Only designated heritage railway stations that are still owned by a railway company under federal jurisdiction are subject to the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act."
Fairmont (at one time headed by Carl Icahn and Prince al Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia) owns Canadian National hotels as well as Canadian Pacific hotels:
Chateau Laurier - Ottawa.
Queen Elizabeth Hotel - Montreal.
Jasper Park Lodge - Alberta.
Macdonald Hotel - Edmonton.
Hotel Vancouver.

FORMER CPR HOLDINGS IN MONTREAL
Windsor Station
Adirondack Subdivision
Cremazie
Angus Shops
Dorval Station Grounds
Hochelaga Yard
Jean Talon Train Station
Chateau Champlain Hotel
Papineau Yard
Place Viger
Drummond and Laugauchetiere Street, Land and Buildings
Land where the IBM/Marathon Tower was built.
Pointe Claire-Pt. Valois Station
St. Denis Yard
Wentworth Golf Course
FORMER CPR HOLDINGS IN TORONTO
Union Station
West Toronto Yard-Keele and West Toronto
Bathurst North of Lakeshore
Cherry Street Yard, fronting Mill Street.
Fez City Yards, Bathurst
Fronting Yonge Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, Land and Buildings
Front and Beachell Streets
Fronting on Front Street and Spadina Avenue
Mile 403-North Toronto, Shaw Street
North Toronto Subdivision, fronting Birch Avenue
Parkdale Yards, fronting King Street.
Marlborough Avenue and Yonge Street Summerhill Station, now owned by an Ontario Crown corporation that sells booze, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.
FORMER CPR HOLDINGS IN VANCOUVER
Coal Harbour
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
False Creek- 12.837 acres. Book value, according to Marathon, was $1 dollar. The taxpayers of B.C paid $60 million for False Creek, later the site for Expo 86.
FORMER CPR HOLDINGS IN QUEBEC CITY
Chateau Frontenac Hotel
Gare du Palais- Palace Station
Alberta land.
Calgary - Laggan Subdivision - 39.42 acres - $1 dollar.
Olds - Red Deer Subdivision - 13.58 acres - $1, 127 dollars and 10 cents.
Didsbury - Mile 48.4 - 12.98 acres - $1, 190 dollars and 20 cents.
The list goes on...
Canadian Pacific Railway holdings were so vast, it took the company's president Norris Crump seven years to complete an inventory.(From: Vancouver Ltd. by Donald Gutstein, Page 88.)
                                        
                         

Government of Canada real estate in the National Capital Region 1984-1985

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The Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa is for sale.

Who knows what will happen to this irreplaceable landmark---will it be demolished or converted into condos?
John Lennon and Yoko Ono stayed at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in 1969, and their song "Give Peace a Chance" was recorded at another CN property, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. Renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife lived in the Chateau Laurier from 1980 until 1998.

The Chateau Laurier Hotel was a National Historic Site in 1979:

Heritage Conservation Background Report, City of Ottawa. (From: The downtown Ottawa Public Library on Laurier Avenue.)

.I would not be surprised if the Chateau Laurier is sold to the government of China. The Chinese government couldn't care less about China's architectural heritage---ancestral tombs, 600-year-old Taoist temples and hutongs (ancient courtyard houses) were destroyed, and replaced with apartment and office towers and shopping centres. Why would a foreign government or a Wall Street investment firm care about my country's history.
The Chateau Laurier; Dominion Buildings and one thousand lighthouses should be placed on a Deathwatch---killed by:
1.) Privatization
2.) Apathy
3.) Weak to non-existent heritage laws.
4.) Insatiable greed.

.High rise condos were constructed on land directly behind another former CNR hotel, the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba:

Apartment towers behind the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba.