A privatized CN Rail wasted little time selling off a subsidiary.

Canada's first Crown corporation was established to serve the people of this nation. Foreign investors do not care about serving the public or preserving our history.
A July 22, 1993 Privy Council Order-in-Council gave the Crown corporation CN the title to all of the the Canadian Government Railways for $1 dollar. Subsidiaries of the Canadian Government Railways were:

1.)  Intercolonial Railway of Canada.

2.)  Hudson's Bay Railway.

3.)  National Transcontinental Railway.

4.)  Prince Edward Island Railway.

"The People's Railway" was denationalized two years after an Order-in-Council was signed by the Governor General of Canada:
PRIVY COUNCIL ORDER-IN-COUNCIL
PC NUMBER 1993-1603.
Date: 1993-07-22
Precis  " Authority to enter into an agreement with CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS COMPANY and to dispose of all rights, title and interest in the Canadian Government Railways lands to the Canadian National Railway Company and termination of the management and lands entrusted to CN."

The route of the Hudson's Bay Railway is defined in black. The Hudson's Bay Railway was sold to a Denver, Colorado based company called OmniTRAX in 1996. Residents of Churchill, Manitoba were left stranded for almost a year after a flood washed out some tracks and the tracks were not repaired.

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The Intercolonial Railway Line was abandoned in 1989:

                                      

An inventory of CNR bridges.

Paris, Ontario, 1918.

Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Prince of Wales, Ottawa..

Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

Kamloops, British Columbia.

Weston, Toronto, Ontario.

Etchemin, Province of Quebec.

This bridge links Burnaby with Richmond, BC and crosses the Fraser River. Owned by CN Rail, and one of the billion dollars worth of Crown assets that were sold to CN for $1 dollar in July 1993, two years before it was privatized.

Rimouski, Quebec.

   

Canadian landmarks that never should have been privatized.

Prison for Women -40 Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard, Kingston, Ontario.
The Portsmouth Olympic Harbour - Kingston, Ontario.
Almost 200 acres of the Central Experimental Farm - 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa. See the YouTube video "Ottawa prepares to hand over Historic Federal Farmland to Corporate Developers."

1,000 Department of Fisheries and Oceans Lighthouses including Peggy's Cove.
All of the Canadian Pacific Railway hotels.
All of the Canadian National Railway hotels.
Grain elevators in Western Canada and Northern Ontario.
The Quebec Bridge that spans the St. Lawrence River - called "the eighth wonder of the world."

Endangered landmarks.
The decommissioned Kingston Penitentiary.
Collins Bay Institution.
Martello Towers.
The Rideau Canal locks and lock stations. Parks Canada cannot afford to maintain $8 billion dollars worth of infrastructure in Canada's National Parks.
The Dominion Observatory Campus on the Experimental Farm in Ottawa. The Civic is building a mega-hospital and auxiliary buildings on 50 acres of the Farm. The Observatory, Photo Equatorial Building, South Azimuth and many other structures will either be moved or demolished, because Maple Lane has to be widened and the health care facility does not want "irregularly- shaped" parcels of land.

More than 500 mature trees on the Experimental Farm, read the letter that former Ottawa mayors Jacquelin Holzman and Jim Durrell sent to the National Capital Commission.

The Brockville, Ontario railway tunnel was donated to the city in 1982. Wikipedia photo.

The Prince of Wales Bridge linked Ottawa and Gatineau, Quebec. An Archives of Canada photo from 1928.

An update - Summerhill Station located at 10 Scrivener, Toronto.

Summerhill Station. The CPR owned the building and 18 acres of land to the east until 2001. Wikipedia photo.

The former CPR Station is a private asset.

The property outlined in blue is  TTC or Toronto Transit Commission real estate. 

Harbourfront.

Harbourfront was a Crown corporation created in 1972, to ensure that 247 acres of waterfront land in Toronto would remain a greenspace "in perpetuity." Harbourfront Centre now encompasses 10 acres,
The federal government spent millions of dollars cleaning up an industrial wasteland.
House of Commons Debates  Ottawa  May 23, 1991.

John V. Nunziata - Liberal.
Mr. Nunziata:
     "The Conservative member opposite says there is nothing wrong with the federal government selling public land in order to benefit the rich and wealthy. There are a lot of poor and not so poor people in metropolitan Toronto who cannot escape to Roscoe Lake on the hot summer weekends in order to boat at their cottage. A lot of residents of metropolitan Toronto have the waterfront as their recreation during the summer months."
     "This government is proposing to sell that very valuable asset. Why? Not to reduce the deficit. We know that the government has gone to extremes in order to reduce the deficit, but it says it wants to sell part of the land in order to create a trust fund so that Harbourfront can be financed in perpetuity."
     "In other words, sell public parkland to developers. Let them make hundreds of millions of dollars building luxury condominiums or luxury hotels on the waterfront. The revenue from the sale of this land will go into a little trust fund and the interest will be used to carry on these very useful activities."
     "It is penny wise and pound foolish for the government to be selling assets in order to create trust funds in order to carry on certain activities. Then why does it not sell the House of Commons? Why does it not sell the lawn in front of the Peace Tower to private interests."
     "Future generations, our children and grandchildren, will look back on the decisions of this particular Conservative government.

                   

Is the Ontario government selling the former Summerhill train station?

A provincial Crown corporation called the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) operates out of the former Summerhill train station, located at 10 Scrivener. It is a heritage property protected by Part 1V of the Ontario Heritage Act. A few years ago the Ontario government sold an LCBO property on LakeShore Boulevard in Toronto:

The 11-acre LCBO Head Office and auxiliary buildings are located on 55 LakeShore Boulevard East.

The former CPR train station has a tower modeled after St. Mark's Campanile in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. St. Mark's Campanile was a prominent feature in the 1955 Katharine Hepburn/Rossano Brazzi movie "Summertime." 

Ontario government properties are privatized via a Crown corporation called the Ontario Realty Corporation/Infrastructure Ontario. ORC holdings that are currently on the market or already divested:

Rockwood Hospital, Kingston.(for sale right now.)

Bowmanville POW Camp.

Rideau Regional Centre, Smiths Falls.

London Psychiatric Hospital.
The Hearn OPG Station, 440 Unwin, Toronto.(now)
Perth Jail
Windsor Jail
Former Guelph Correctional Centre
305 Bremner Avenue, Toronto - A Rogers Centre parking lot. (now)
27 Grosvenor Street, Toronto and 26 Grenville Avenue, Toronto.
Spadina Corridor - 203 Ava Road, Toronto. (now.)
Spadina Corridor Rear Residential Lands, Toronto - 24 (now.)
Spadina Corridor-Spadina Road Properties - 17. (now.)
(Information is from the Infrastructure Ontario website - 243 surplus properties for sale.)

Expo 67 Montreal. Archives of Canada photos.

Princess Irene of Greece.

The American Pavilion.

Princess Paola of Belgium.

Prince Albert and Princess Paola of Belgium.

Expo theatre.

Korean dancers.

Canadian Olympic ski champion Nancy Greene flying above Dolphin Lake.

Carol Channing performing in "Hello Dolly" at the Expo Theatre.

HM Queen Elizabeth 11.

The Beggar's Opera Group from England.

Fort Edmonton Pioneerland at La Ronde.

   

Railways

House of Commons Debates, November 18, 1977. Ottawa,
Simma Holt, Liberal (Vancouver-Kingsway):

Mrs. Holt:
     "The CPR is no longer a railroad, which is the reason for it's existence. In fact, that railroad might simply be called a "front" for its exploitation of other interests in this country. The railroad is simply there to further CP's moneymaking, and I would go for far as to say greed."
     "Like the hon. member, I know the reputation of the railway, specifically the Canadian Pacific, which has taken so much of what should be the property of Canadians."
     "I support strongly this motion which could lead the government to amend section 88 of the Railway Act, causing the railway rights-of-way, originally obtained through subsidies, to revert to the Crown when they are no longer in use as a railway and for railway purposes."
     "The CPR failed to live up to an agreement to serve this nation and to give something to this nation in perpetuity...The CPR was to provide passenger service to this country in perpetuity...The subsidy in the agreement was $25 million, a grant of 25 million acres of land, in alternate sections of 640 acres in a belt 24 miles deep on each side of the railroad."
     "CPR has developed and exploited our natural resources. There are steamships, telecommunications and hotels..
 .The CPR is a railway, and I hope the day will come when there is action to retrieve some land before it has all gone into real estate development."
SUGGESTED REVERSION TO CROWN OF RAILWAY RIGHTS OF WAY

House of Commons Debates, March 3, 1978. Ottawa.
Mr. George H. Whittaker, Progressive Conservative.
     "When the CN and CP abandon rail lines, as they are prone to do, the corridors, the rights of way, should revert to the Crown."
House of Commons Debates, February 28, 1978. Ottawa. 
Mr. George H. Whittaker, Progressive Conservative.
RAILWAY ACT - MEASURE RESPECTING OWNERSHIP OF LAND WHERE RAILWAY LINE ABANDONED.
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The government of Sir John A. Macdonald gave the CPR 25 million acres of land and $25 million dollars, with the understanding that any land no longer needed by the railway would revert to the Crown. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tried to reclaim CPR reversionary property in Banff, Alberta:

A Report by the Auditor General of Canada.

Train stations in the Province of Quebec that were designated heritage buildings by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. 

The Black Rock Monument, dedicated to Irish emigrants who died from typhus.

The nearby graveyard in Point-St-Charles is now a parking lot, and was recently sold by the government to Hydro-Quebec.

The Walt Disney Corporation and Viacom wanted to buy the CN Tower fourteen years ago.

The CN Tower and Mickey Mouse.

Walt Disney marketed the RCMP image.