"Renewed opposition to a new Civic Hospital on the Central Experimental Farm" - Andrew Foote, CBC News, January 21, 2017.

 The Dominion Observatory campus can be seen in the background. Politician and writer Clive Doucet is pictured, he is a founder of a group called "Reimagine Ottawa" which is fighting the relocation of the Carling Avenue hospital to the Farm. (CBC News photo, Andrew Foote.)
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The Government of Canada "is getting out of the business of running experimental Farms." -  CBC article "Ottawa closing experimental farm" February 25, 2005.
The Mulroney and successive governments have been decommissioning Agriculture Canada properties for years. Because they want to sell the land.
 They do not care about the Nobel Prize winning research that is being conducted on the fields and in laboratories; the loss of thousands of jobs; the destruction of habitat and breeding grounds for wild animals; demolition of historic buildings; and the environmental impact of Walmart stores, condominiums, roads and parking lots being built on the land. It's all about the money...

 Even more farms were decommissioned than I ever imagined:
1.) Animal Diseases Research Institute - 100 boulevard Gamelin, Gatineau Quebec.
2.)  Cereal Breads Laboratory - Winnipeg, Manitoba.
3.)  Entomology Laboratory - Chatham, Ontario.
4.)  Entomology Laboratory - Kamloops, British Columbia.
5.)  Fort Vermillion, Alberta.
6.)  Fort William, Ontario.
7.)  Indian Head, Saskatchewan.
8.)  Kamloops, British Columbia.
9.)  L'Assomption, Quebec
10.) Lennoxville, Quebec.
11.) Manyberries, Alberta.
12.) Mile 1019, Alaska Highway, Yukon Territory.
13.) Prince George, British Columbia.
14.)  Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Quebec.
15.)   Scott, Saskatchewan.
16.)   Smithers, British Columbia.
17.)  Experimental Fox Ranch - Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
18.)  Experimental Station - Farnham, Quebec.
19.)  Experimental Station - Invermere, British Columbia.
20.)  Experimental Station - Windermere, British Columbia.
21.)  Experimental Station - La Ferme, Quebec.
22.)  Experimental Station - Rosthern, Saskatchewan.
23.)  Experimental Substation - Yukon Territory.
24.)  Experimental Substation - Woodstock, Ontario.
25.)  Forage Crops Laboratory - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
26.)  Vegreville Research Farm - near Edmonton, Alberta.
27.)  Fruit and Vegetable Products Laboratory - Summerland, British Columbia.
28.)  Kapuskasing, Ontario Experimental Farm - Ontario.
29.)  Jean-Charles Chapais Experimental Farm - Levis, Quebec - Recently closed.
30.)  Charlottetown - Prince Edward Island.
31.)  Frelighsburg - Quebec
32.)  Greenbelt Research Farm - Nepean, Ontario.

The Kapuskasing Beef Research Farm - gone.

Agriculture Canada owned more than 2 million acres of land in 1985. A 1985 report by a Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Works , the Hon. Erik Nielsen.