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:

In 1995 CN Rail was privatized and the company acquired billions of dollars worth of Crown assets.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Bill Gates. The CNR was denationalized on July 13, 1995, and Bill Gates flew into Ottawa for a 6-hour visit with business leaders two weeks later, on July 28, 1995. Bill Gates became a major CNR shareholder in year 2000.

1.)   The St. Clair River Tunnel - In 1993, CN began construction of a new tunnel beside the original one. The St. Clair River Tunnel is now a U.S. National Historic Site and a Michigan State Historic Site.
2.) 

A 2007 Globe and Mail newspaper ad.

3.)   The Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal, Montreal, Quebec.
4.)   A railway bridge that links Burnaby and Richmond, British Columbia  and crosses the Fraser River.
5.)   The Pont de Montreal, a potential UNESCO World Heritage Site and "one of the eight wonders of the world." The bridge crosses the St. Lawrence River and links Laval, Quebec to Quebec City.
6.)   The Cote St-Luc Railyards on the Island of Montreal. CN and CPR want to remove the tracks and the CNR would like to sell the land.
7.)   7,250 bridges, see the Internet article "Rail Bridge Safety-Keeping CN Bridges Safe." 2016 News Release.
8.) 

CN owns the Victoria Bridge that links Saint-Lambert Quebec and Montreal. Seen from Ille-des-Soeurs.(Wikipedia)

9.) The Outer Station, 810 Montreal Street, Kingston:

The Outer Station, Montreal Street, Kingston Ontario.

Why was CN Rail given all the Crown property of Canadian Government Railways.

Privy Council Order-in-Council - PC Number 1993-1603
Date: 1993-07-22,
Precis   Authority to enter into an Agreement with CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY 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 operations of the lands entrusted to CN.
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The CNR paid $1 dollar for property worth billions. The Quebec Bridge was part of that $1 dollar deal. Ironically, the Quebec Bridge was featured on a Canada Post stamp in 1995, the same year that the CNR was privatized.

A Quebec City, Quebec exhibition in 1918. CGR was a federal government agency that operated in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.

Canadian Government Railways owned and managed:
1.)  Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC).
2.)  National Transcontinental Railway (NTR).
3.)  Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR).
4.)  Hudson's Bay Railway (HBR).
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The Cote St-Luc railyards, Montreal in 1981. The CPR and CN are interested in removing the tracks and buildings and selling the land for residential/commercial use, "New study hopes to do away with Cote St Luc railyards" by Tim Sargeant, Global News, October 14, 2016.

Questions.

1.)  Why does Parks Canada want to privatize more than $8 billion dollars worth of infrastructure in Canada's National Parks including dams, canal locks and lock stations, tunnels, culverts, nature trails and highways.
2.)  Why was CN Rail sold for a bargain-basement price to a consortium of foreign investors. The CN Commercialization Act of 1995 restricted investment by one individual to 15%, yet the government of Canada lifted that restriction and Bill Gates will own 25% of "The People's Railway."
3.)  Why do the people of Canada no longer own Toronto's  CN Tower or the Edmonton CN Tower.
4.)  A Crown corporation called Via Rail has to pay CN and the CPR to use railway tracks that were built and paid for by my ancestors. Via Rail provides passenger service. A railway company left the people of Churchill, Manitoba stranded and unable to obtain essential products, when the corporation refused to repair flooded railway tracks. Canada's government eventually nationalized the tracks and bought a couple of trains and the community was so happy that street parties were organized and people cried tears of joy.
5.)  The Fraser Institute is lobbying for the privatization of British Columbia's National Parks,Canada Post, the CBC, CMHC, Forestry Canada and many other Crown assets that are collectively owned by the people of this nation.
6.)  Why are Federal Crown assets (buildings, land, infrastructure, natural resources, tourist venues) now the property of:
General Electric
Walmart
Amazon
Fairmont Hotel's and Resorts.

7.)  Why was the CPR given water rights, drilling rights, timber rights, air rights, etc. on the 44 million acres of land that were given to the corporation. The CPR was created by Sir John A. Macdonald to prevent annexation of this country by our southern neighbour. However, an American conglomerate called General Electric paid almost a billion dollars for CPR property in Canada, and that includes the water rights, drilling rights, etc.
8.)  Why was a dam constructed on the Oldman River in Alberta.
Andy Russell wrote a book about the Oldman River:

I took this photo of Andy Russell, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Federal Agriculture Minister Bud Olson at the Lethbridge, Alberta airport in 1972:

A May 4, 1989 Calgary Herald article. Andy Russell, David Suzuki, Ian and Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot and thousands more were part of a protest against the Oldman River dam project. Gordon Lightfoot sang "Railroad Trilogy" and Murray McLaughlan sang "The Farmer's Song."

                                     

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.

"CN owned ... 6,000 bridges across Canada."

A quote by Mr. Antoine Dube ( Levis, Quebec. BQ) House of Commons, Ottawa  March 29, 1996.
CN Rail was Canada's oldest Crown corporation, founded in the year 1918. CN Rail was privatized in 1995 and the richest man in the world Bill Gates will own 25% of the corporation in the near future.
 Two years before the Crown corporation was privatized, millions of dollars worth of federal property was transferred for $1 dollar:
House of Commons Debates, Ottawa    March 29, 1996
Mr. Chuck Strahl, (Fraser Valley East, Reform.)

     "In 1993 the federal government sold the (Quebec) bridge to CN for $1 dollar with the proviso that CN maintain the bridge."
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House of Commons Debates, Ottawa    March 29, 1996
Mr. Jim Jordan (Leeds-Grenville, Liberal.)

     "Steps have been taken to have UNESCO designate the bridge an international historic landmark...I am very confident that CN will fulfill it's obligation agreed to in the 1993 Canadian government-CN agreement at which time the responsibility for the federal government's maintenance of the bridge ceased."
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House of Commons Debates, Ottawa   December 1, 2009
Mr. Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, NDP.)

     "...CN got infrastructure and projects worth billions of dollars in exchange for $1 dollar and a few undertakings, including maintaining and repairing the Quebec bridge, which it did not do. It now has the nerve to drag this matter through the courts...We in the NDP have always warned that we cannot trust private enterprise and give it control over assets that once belonged to the Crown because it will not do the work needed."

The Pont de Quebec. Bill Gates refused to refurbish the landmark in the year 2014. (Photo from Business Insider.)

 A scene from the Buster Keaton movie "The Railrodder." The Chateau Frontenac Hotel in Quebec City can be seen in the background. (blog.nfb.ca.)

   

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-a health care facility is building a mega-hospital and auxiliary buildings on 50 acres of the National Historic Site of Canada. 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.

Proposed Sale of CN Tower.

House of Commons Debates, Ottawa      December 7, 1987
Neil Young, New Democratic Party (Beaches).

Mr. Neil Young:
     "Can you imagine, Mr. Speaker, the Government of Egypt selling off the Pyramids, the Chinese people placing the Great Wall on the auction block, or the Eiffel Tower turned over to the private sector? Only in Canada we say "sell the CN Tower".
     "And what is the CN Tower to be called; Alpo Dog Food Heights, Loblaws Skyscraper, Pizza Pizza Peak or perhaps Ronald Reagan Lookout?"
     "The Tower was built with $57 million of Canadian money. It does serve 15 media centres. It does accommodate two million visitors a year, and it does bring a sense of pride to Canadians. All of this, and the Tower turned a tidy $5 million profit last year."
     "If the Government insists on bequeathing the CN Tower to the private sector, it should at least attempt to secure a guarantee that the purchaser will find a small place for the Government's epitaph to be displayed for all Canadians to see."

Billions of dollars worth of property have been sold off by the railways.

The real estate arm of the Canadian Pacific Railway was sold to General Electric and Oxford Properties in 1996; while CN Real Estate privatized almost a billion dollars worth of Crown assets. The CPR company Marathon Realty should have returned land that was not needed for railway purposes to the Crown, to the people of Canada. And CN should never have been privatized in 1995, in my opinion.
House of Commons Debates, Ottawa     October 29, 1973
Lorne Edmund Nystrom, New Democratic Party (Yorkton-Melville.)

Mr. Lorne Nystrom:
     "What is the difference between CN Rail and the CPR? I suggest they are basically the same. The CNR is publicly owned and CPR is a privately owned corporation. CPR operates in 8 provinces, CNR in 10.
     "The Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas people have petroleum rights in over 23 million acres of land in Western Canada."
     "Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels owns and operates 11 hotels in this country."
     "Marathon Realty owns a monstrous $310 million dollars worth of assets and the $35 million dollar Place du Canada in Montreal."
     "Cominco, which was formerly the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, owns or controls National Hardware Specialties in Ontario, which is a zinc die-casting plant."
     "Western Steel Limited is owned and controlled by the CPR in Vancouver."
     "Another company the CPR owns is Pinepoint Mines Limited in Trail, British Columbia."
     "They own Pacific Coast Terminals Limited in New Westminster."
     "They own Ricken Mines in Yellowknife."
     "They own Coast Copper in B.C."
     "They own Sunco Mines Ltd. which is also a copper mine."
     "The Canadian Pacific Railway has interests in the United States. There is a zinc interest in the country of India."
     "It has fertilizer, lead and electronics plants in the United States and a smelting plant in Japan."
     "There are Canadian fertilizer plants. There are six hydro-electric plants in the Province of British Columbia and some pipeline interests as well."
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Mr. Nystrom:
     "The CNR, like the CPR is involved in all kinds of enterprises across the country.
     "We have the railway system itself, we have CN Express, we have Canadian National Railways Limited in France."

The Scribe Hotel, Paris, France booking office.

The Scribe Hotel was sold in 1995 when the Crown corporation was privatized. The government of Canada wanted to rename the hotel the "Palais du Canada" during the 1920's.

     "We have Canadian National Realties, Canadian National Steamship Company, CN Telegraph, CN Transfer, CN Transportation."
     "We have Canadian Northern Quebec Company, which is owned by the CNR."
     "We have Chapman Transportation Company."
     "Eastern Transport; Empire Freight ways; The Great Northwest Telegraph Company of Canada."
     "We have Husband Transport; Husband International Transport."
     "Midland Superior Enterprise Limited."
     "The Minnesota-Manitoba Railway Company."
     "The Mount Royal Tunnel and Terminal Company."

The Mount Royal Tunnel in Montreal. Looking east towards the portal of the Mount Royal Tunnel and Jean Talon.

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House of Commons Debates   Ottawa  March 19, 1993. (Two years before the CNR was denationalized.)
Mr. Dingwall Official Opposition, Liberal Party House Leader,

Mr. Dingwall:
     "With respect to Canadian National (CN) (a) How many hectares of land does it presently own. (b) How many hectares of land does it presently own (c) What is the total market value of the land.

Mr. Jean Corbeil (Progressive Conservative):
     "The management of the Canadian National Railway advises as follows:
(a) and (b) CN as a whole has approximately 150,000 hectares (370,658 acres) of land. Most of this inventory is in rail operating use. At CN Real Estate, the real estate business arm of Canadian National, there are approximately 14,000 hectares (34, 9594 acres) of undeveloped land in the inventory at the present time, of which 8,700 hectares are abandoned rights-of-way, 5,000 hectares are other rural and miscellaneous lands and 308 hectares are development sites."
     "Assuming that developed land includes buildings, these buildings would generally be measured in square feet, not acres or hectares. At the present time CN Real Estate wholly owns approximately 726,000 square feet of office buildings, multi-use properties, retail and parking structures in major markets, and has an ownership interest in an additional 3,400,000 square feet of income producing properties."
     "The total market value of all real estate holdings and income properties is approximately $900 million dollars."

On July 28, 1995 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates flew into Ottawa for a six-hour meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and business leaders.

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Now the federal government and the Fraser Institute want to take away our national parks:

 The Fraser Institute wants to see the devolution of all National Parks in British Columbia to the BC provincial government.

"Parks Canada to look at divesting highways, bridges, dams....Cash strapped agency examines whether to transfer or divest non-heritage assets worth $8.3 billion." by Dean Beeby, CBC News, August 26, 2017.
 The sell-off would include highways, nature trails, culverts, dams, tunnels and bridges. Also, Parks Canada has indicated that many Rideau Canal Locks and lock stations are in need of repair. They are classified as "infrastructure" and are managed by Parks Canada.

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.

The Canadian Pacific Railway has received nearly 44 million acres of free land.

House of Commons Debates, Ottawa    October 31, 1983
Douglas Keith Anguish, New Democratic Party

Mr. Anguish:
     "If one looks at the land history of the rail companies in this country, particularly Canadian Pacific, one will see that over the period of time it has been in existence (it has received) some 43,962, 546 acres of land...It has also received hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in the transportation system of this country...It was part of the Confederation agreement to hold this country together."
     "But they did not reinvest that money, they decided to expand:
Canadian Pacific Limited subsidiaries
CP AirLines Ltd,
CP Steamships Ltd.
CP Express and Transport Ltd.
Can Pac International Freight Services
Soo Line Railroad Company
CP Telecommunications
CP Enterprises
Pan Canadian Petroleum Ltd.
Cominco Ltd.
Fording Coal Ltd.
CIP Inc.
Pacific Forest Products Ltd.
Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd.
Algoma Steel Ltd.
Maple Leaf Mills Ltd.
Marathon Realty Corporation - Marathon Realty was interested in selling off a great amount of that 43,962,546 acres of land in order to reap more profits for Canadian Pacific."
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In 1996 Canadian Pacific sold Marathon Realty to the American conglomerate General Electric and to Oxford Properties. The deal was worth almost a billion dollars. I am sure that GE and Oxford would not have paid a billion dollars if they did not acquire the air rights; rights-of-way; drilling rights; timber rights; mineral rights and water rights. A subsidiary of General Electric is GE Oil and Gas.
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A 1985 Supreme Court of Canada decision ordered Canadian Pacific Limited to return reversionary land (land that is not needed for railway purposes) to the people of Canada. We are talking about millions of acres of Canadian land that General Electric, the CPR and Oxford Realty are selling.
There should be a moratorium on the sale of former railway property such as:
The Arbutus Corridor in Vancouver.
A Corridor in Calgary, Alberta that is currently on the market.

A call for the nationalization of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

House of Commons Debates, Ottawa     February 16, 1981.
Leslie Gordon Benjamin, New Democratic Party.

Mr. Les Benjamin (Regina).
     "Madam Speaker, I rise under the provisions of Standing Order 43 to remind the House that this is the one hundredth birthday of Canadian Pacific. In view of the fact that Canadian Pacific Limited made $582 million profit last year resulting from assets given to it by the Canadian people, and since the CPR claims that its side of the bargain, including the Crowsnest Pass agreement is a burden too onerous, I moved, seconded by the hon. member for Winnipeg North (Mr. Orlikow):
 That this House wishes Canadian Pacific Limited unhappy birthday and calls upon the government to bring Canadian Pacific Limited under public ownership, return its assets to the people of Canada, and retire its board of directors, including old blue eyes."

Jeanne Sauve (Speaker of the House of Commons) Liberal.
Madam Speaker:
     "Is there unanimous consent for this motion?"

Some Hon. Members:
     "Agreed".

Some Hon. Members:
     "No".
CALL FOR NATIONALIZATION ON OCCASION OF CENTENNIAL,  STANDING ORDER 43.
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The 1984 Report of the Auditor General of Canada, Section 6.90.

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Canadian Pacific Limited subsidiaries:
Marathon Realty
Canadian Pacific Hotels
Cominco
Fording Coal
CNCP Telecommunications-a joint venture between the CNR and CPR.
CP Oil and Gas Company
CP Airlines
CP Express Company (Trucking.)
CP Ships
The MacMillan Bloedel Timber Company
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Real estate holdings of the CPR
Land beneath the Husky Tower/Calgary Tower in Alberta.
Land beneath an office tower called Metro Hall (City Hall) in Toronto.
Land beneath the Dufferin Mall in Toronto and Place d"Orleans shopping malls.

Spiral Tunnels
The tunnel located at Kicking Horse Pass in Yoho National Park, British Columbia.
A tunnel in Brockville, Ontario that was donated to the city.

The CPR has drilling, mining, timber and water rights on land it received as a grant from the federal government.
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Books written about the railway:
"The National Dream" (1970) and "The Last Spike" by Pierre Berton.
"A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway" (1923) by H.A. Innis.
"History of the Canadian Pacific Railway" (1977) by W. Kaye Lamb.
"Canadian Pacific: A Brief History" (1968) by J.L. McDougall.

My mother, niece and a friend are walking towards the High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. I took the photo during the early 1990's.

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...

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Canadian landmarks that were sold or demolished.

The London, Ontario CN Tower. To see a YouTube video of the demolition Google:" CN implosion London, Ontario" and you can hear the fools cheering and clapping in the background. The other CN Towers are located in Toronto, Edmonton and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

A Globe and Mail newspaper ad . Windsor station was divested via a Privy Council Order-in-Council: January 28, 1993-Heritage Railway Stations Act-Canadian Pacific Limited to sell Windsor Station and land in Montreal." In 1970 Marathon Realty, the real estate subsidiary of the CPR wanted to demolish the entire train station.

A 2007 Globe and Mail newspaper ad. One year after Bill Gates became the main CNR investor he decided to sell the property. The Government of  Canada lifted restrictions on the ownership of CN investments; Bill Gates owns 25% of the former Crown corporation, despite a stipulation by the "CN Commercialization Act of 1995" that banned one individual, especially a foreigner, from investing in more than 15% of the company.

The Outer Station on Montreal Street, Kingston, Ontario. CN refused to repair the station:

Princess Elizabeth at the Outer Station.

                   

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.)

Railway stations in Ottawa and Toronto faced demolition during the 1960's and 1970's.

CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS

Metro Development Centre, Toronto-Alleged Agreement to Demolish Union Station.

House of Commons Debates, Ottawa   November 16, 1971.

Mr. John Gilbert, New Democratic Party (Broadview).

Mr. Gilbert:

     "Has Canadian National Railways entered into an agreement with Metro Development Centre to sell Union Station in Toronto and, if so, does the government agree with the demolition of Union Station?"

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The connection between Metro Centre and the Spadina Expressway.

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Summerhill Station, Yonge Street, Toronto.

In 1971 residents of Marlborough Street in Toronto fought the CPR's plan to flatten Summerhill Station and build hundreds of houses on the grounds of the station and surrounding land. The book "Marlborough Marathon-One Street Against a Developer" can be purchased on Amazon. (Amazon.ca photo.)
  

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Union Station, Ottawa
During the early 1950's an urban planner named Jacques Greber suggested that the CNR train station in Ottawa should be decommissioned and all the train tracks should be removed. The suggestion was controversial:
House of Commons Debates   Ottawa  June 23, 1951

Mr. Jean-Francois Pouliot, Liberal"
     "I understand that the federal district commission is trying to follow the suggestion of Mr. Greber, the architect, who comes from Paris.  In Paris there are many railway stations. There is the Gare du Nord, the Gare de Lyon, and there are others right in the heart of Paris which is a beautiful city."
     "In London there is the same thing. Waterloo is right in the middle of the city, and there are others which are in the middle of the city. Montreal is a beautiful city. There is the central station of the Canadian National Hallways near the Windsor station of the Canadian Pacific Railway right in the heart of the city."
     "I do not understand Mr. Greber's idea of having a railway station four miles from the centre of Ottawa, especially now that we have diesel engines that make no smoke and are not an inconvenience to the people. I do not know how he can beautify the city of Ottawa by removing the railway from the centre of downtown."
(Note: Mr. Greber advised the federal district commission, which today is known as the National Capital Commission.)
National Capital Commission plans in 1966.
 (The following information is from the Internet website NCC Watch.)
     "One of North America's first monumental railway stations, the Grand Trunk Railway Union Station opened in 1912 and served passengers until 1966. It was closed for the sake of the National Capital Commission's monumental plans-after all, it was the sixties and who needed trains anymore? So the valuable rail transit corridor that ran through the heart of the city was replaced with the Nicholas Street expressway and Colonel By Drive and the station moved out to the suburbs against the wishes of the railroads. Incredibly the plan called for the former station's demolition as it would impede traffic."
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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.