More CPR history.

1.)  During the 1970's a Calgary newspaper called The Albertan and Mount Royal College converted a CPR building into a printing plant. I was a journalism student at MRC during that time and I visited the printing plant. Marathon Realty Assistant General Manager Rod Sykes raised the rent from $ 900 dollars a year to $20,000 dollars a year. (From:" Canadian Pacific-A Portrait of Power" by Susan Goldenberg, Page 14.) Rod Sykes became a mayor of Calgary.

2.)  The Regina, Saskatchewan train station.

House of Commons Debates Ottawa.

3.)  Marathon Realty wanted to demolish the Summerhill train station at Marlborough and Yonge Streets in Toronto, in order to build 700 houses. See the Macleans Magazine article "These nice people just won a street fight" March 1971. Canadian author J.L. Granatstein wrote a book about the battle between the community and the developer:

 4.)  Ian Tyson lived in a rooming house near Marlborough station during the 1960's and he wrote a song about that experience. The song "Marlborough Street Blues" is on YouTube.

5.)  Marathon Realty director Dufferin (Duff) Roblin planned to redevelop land in downtown Ottawa after the CN and CPR tracks were removed. Eventually CP land was sold to the Westin Hotel. (From: "Canadian Pacific-A Portrait of Power" - Page 134.) Many shopping centres were built on railway land:
Dufferin Mall - Toronto.
Place d'Orleans
Orchard Park - Kelowna, British Columbia.
Northland Village - Calgary, Alberta.
Park Place Mall - Lethbridge, Alberta - The shopping centre is 2 minutes away from the former CPR train station, now a health care facility. Children receive their vaccinations there, I know, I visited this health care facility many times.

The Westin Hotel Ottawa can be seen in this photograph.