Federal properties in Canada that were sold off or demolished.

Railway Properties
CN Tower in Toronto is "non-federal owned".
Spadina Roundhouse in Toronto, demolished to make way for the Skydome, now the Rogers Centre.
Canadian National Railway land at Bay and Adelaide Streets in Toronto was sold to the builders of the Trump Tower.

Federal Penitenitentiaries
Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario
Saint-Vincent de Paul Penitentiary in Laval, Quebec.


Agriculture Canada properties
In 2005, the Federal Government closed 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, Newfoundland.
3.) The Cereal Research Centre in Winniprg, Manitoba.
4.) The Crop and Livestock Research Centre in Nappan, Nova Scotia.

The Vegreville Experimental Farm near Edmonton, Alberta.
Upton Farm in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
The Sir John Carling Building on the grounds of the Ottawa Experimental Farm was demolished.

Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa - in 1988, 91 acres of Farm land were privatized, the Clyde/Merivale lands.

A front page article from the Ottawa Journal newspaper in 1975. Former  National Capital Commission Chairman Douglas Fullerton wanted to see most of the Experimental Farm farm sold to developers, to build 7,000 houses. Agriculture Ministers Bud Olson and Eugene Whelan refused to sell even one acre of the Farm.

Museums - the former War Museum on Sussex Drive in Ottawa.


Dominion Buildings
 Higginbotham Building, a Lethbridge, Alberta landmark.
Dominion Public Building, 1 Front Street West, Toronto, sold to the same developer who is ruining the Chateau Laurier Hotel.
Charlottetown Dominion Building - 17 Queen Street.

Canada Mortgage and Housing properties
Kingstonian Apartments, 780 Division Street, Kingston, Ontario.
Regent Park, Toronto.

Canada Post properties
A mail sorting plant on Ottawa Street in Montreal.
Canada Post Headquarters at 40 Bay Street in Toronto is now the Air Canada Centre.
Postal Station K, Yonge and Eglington Streets in Toronto.

Canadian National Railway Hotels

Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa
Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal
Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta
Macdonald Hotel in Edmonton
Hotel Vancouver

Veteran's Affairs
Senneville Lodge in Senneville, Quebec.
After World War 11 the Department of Veteran's Affairs acquired a building in Kingston, Ontario, at 27 Princess Street. But the property was declared "surplus" in 1957 and faced demolition. Thankfully, the landmark was acquired by new owners and became the "Smith Robinson Building". Don Cherry suggested that the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame could be relocated here, Don Cherry is a Kingstonian.


Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Jarvis Street Complex and parking lot in Toronto, Ontario.
The Robson Street CBC land in Vancouver. Li ka Shing built high-rise condos, TV Tower 1 and TV Tower 2 on the land.
Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal - The CBC will rent office space from the new owner of Maison Radio-Canada, and 2,200 new housing units will be constructed on the land.

The CBOT Building at 250 Lanark Street in Westboro, Ottawa was divested in 2002.

Dominion Observatories
The Gonzales Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia is now owned by the Capital Regional District in Victoria, B.C.

Natural Resources Canada
The CANMET Laboratory in the Ottawa Booth Street Complex has been transferred to McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

Tunney's Pasture in Ottawa
The Atomic Energy of Canada property - gone.
the Eldorado Nuclear property - gone.

Early 1970's photo taken by my Dad, of a Tunney's Pasture building.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada
In the year 2010, Fisheries and Oceans Canada "disposed of" its entire portfolio of lighthouses, 1000, including Peggy's Cove:

Armouries
The Windsor, Ontario armoury.
A condo developer bought Wallis House in Ottawa; the armoury was built in 1873.

DND
CFB Downsview, Toronto
CFB Rockcliffe, Ottawa
CFB Edmonton (Griesbach Barracks)
CFB Calgary (Currie Barracks)
CFB Summerside, Prince Edward Island - a massive military base, sold for a dollar to a profit-making company... see the book "On the Take" by Stevie Cameron.
CFB Winnipeg (Kapyong Barracks)
Shannon Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
CFB Jericho Beach in West Vancouver, British Columbia
CFB Moncton in New Brunswick
CFB London, Ontario (Wolseley Barracks)
CFB Shearwater, Nova Scotia - A few years ago the base was returned to the government.
CFS Albro Lake in Dartmouth
CFB Chilliwack, British Columbia
CFB Pleasantville in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Formerly known as Fort Pepperrell.
CFS Falconbridge Ontario -( 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 Leaseholds Ltd.)


National Capital Commission
According to the GREENBELT MASTER PLAN, CONSULTATION REPORT - Phase 1 - Step C - Land Use Concept-Prepared for the National Capital Commission, January 2012--- the NCC has big plans for Greenbelt land in Ottawa:
1.) Possible sale of Parcel 2, the site at the southwest corner of West Hunt Club Road and Woodroffe Avenue, with buildings.

     "As of March 31, 1998, the Greenbelt Research Farm, which covers 1,200 hectares of land bordered by Hunt Club Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Fallowfield Road and Greenbank Road, ceased to function as an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Centre. This was announced in the 1995 Federal Budget".

2.) The potential removal of Greenbelt designation from the Nepean Sportsplex.

3.) Possible sale of Parcel 4, an isolated parcel on the west side of Highway 417, which is a mixture of idle field and small trees.

4.) Possible sale of Parcel 3, isolated lands east of Conroy Road and south of Hunt Club with small trees.

(In my opinion, the National Capital Commission does not have the right to sell ANY Greenbelt land. Jacques Greber created the Greenbelt in Ottawa as a living memorial to Canada's war dead.)

The Conroy Pit in Ottawa may also be redeveloped----"The Conroy Pit (110 ha.) is an abandoned sand pit, with recreational and development potential.".(See "NCC - Greenbelt Master Plan Background" 1996 - pdf Page 4.)

A Federal Government committee was  critical of National Capital Commission real estate sales, and made several recommendations, including:
RECOMMENDATION 1
We recommend that the National Capital Commission develop a meaningful consultation process which would apply to either the disposal or change of use of property held by the Commission.

RECOMMENDATION 2 
We recommend that the Treasury Board rescind its 1991 Real Asset Management Funding Strategy as it relates to the National Capital Commission and that monies received by the Commission for the sale of surplus assets be directed to the Consolidated Revenue Fund as these were assets held for all Canadians.
(See: "The Standing Senate Committee on National Finance" - Nineteenth Report: Chairman Lowell Murray, June 13, 2003.)
(Note: Instead of depositing money from the sale of real estate into the National Treasury, the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the National Capital Commission is permitted to keep all the money from the sale of federal properties---ASC, creator of this blog, savecfbrockcliffe).

The LeBreton Flats, 130 acres of prime waterfront land in Ottawa, were owned by the National Capital Commission. People had their homes expropriated to create LeBreton Flats, just as thousands of individuals had land expropriated by the NCC to create the Greenbelt. In both cases, property was sold, and continues to be sold to real estate developers. What a scandal. The Greenbelt land should be untouchable, the Greenbelt was created by city planner Jacquer Greber as a memorial to Canadians who died in foreign battles.

The National Capital Commission sold the Mackenzie King Bridge, the Laurier Avenue Bridge and 264 hectares of land to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton---1995.

Diefenbunkers
The Diefenbunkers were nuclear fallout shelters built by the Canadian government during the 1950's and 1960's. About 20 years ago, the Penhold, Alberta fallout shelter was demolished after an outlaw motorcycle gang, either the Satan's Choice or the Hell's Angels, expressed interest in buying it.

The Penhold, Alberta nuclear fallout shelter.

Shopping Malls

Rideau Centre Shopping Mall---1983. The mall is no longer Crown property.

Health Canada

The Health Canada laboratory located at 510 Lagimodiere Boulevard in Winnipeg, Manitoba is being sold for $9 million dollars. The building is only 30 years old, and is right next to the Royal Canadian Mint.