GONE
The Dominion Public Building at 1 Front Street West in Toronto. Canadians owned this landmark until the year 2018. |
Thousands of CNR and CPR railways stations were bulldozed, re purposed or left to rot; the Laval Penitentiary in Quebec is deteriorating; aircraft hangars at CFB Rockcliffe in Ottawa were demolished. Union Station in Toronto is being "selectively demolished".
You failed miserably, you so-called guardians of Canada's architectural history in Toronto.
You did not save the Summerhill Train Station ---if the Liquor Control Board of Ontario is privatized, Summerhill Station will be transferred to the Ontario Realty Corporation. The ORC can then bulldoze the magnificent building, modeled after the Campanile di San Marco in Saint Mark's Square, Venice, Italy:
The Summerhill Train Station in Toronto, Ontario; now owned by the LCBO. |
When Canadians finally wake up, they will discover that all of Canada's national properties were sold off, privatized. Even the CN Tower--- Walt Disney Corporation and Viacom wanted to buy the CN Tower about ten years ago. As I mentioned before, 91 acres of Experimental Farm Land in Ottawa were privatized in 1988; a project called "Central Park" was built on the Clyde/Merivale lands.
The powerful Fraser Institute is calling for the denationalization of Canadian government properties in the province of British Columbia---Canada Post, Canada Mortgage and Housing, Veterans Affairs...And the Fraser Institute wants to see the devolution of all the National Parks in British Columbia to the provincial government of BC.
The Higginbotham Building in Lethbridge, Alberta. During the 1970's, the Higginbotham Building housed Canada Post, Manpower, Canada Customs and other federal government agencies and departments. In 1973, my Mother received a federal grant, a Local Initiatives Project (LIP) grant. Her project, CONCERN, provided free services to elderly and disabled Lethbridge citizens---the employees mowed lawns, drove people to medical appointments, painted houses, etc.
My Mother rented an office in the Professional Building, right next door to the Higginbotham Dominion Building; and I accompanied her when she selected furniture and equipment from the Higginbotham warehouse.
I am pictured second from the left at the Higginbotham Building loading dock, 1973. |
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