Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Heritage buildings in Canada are not protected.

  The CPR wanted to demolish the Summerhill train station during the early 1970's. The clock tower was modeled after St. Mark's Campanile in Venice, Italy. Recently sold to a developer.

The former North Toronto CPR station, 10 Scrivener. (Photo is from Toronto Railway Historical.)
  Heritage preservationist Paul Oberman was arrested for lying down in front of a bulldozer demolishing a Downsview aircraft hangar.
                                                   

The Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans privatized its entire portfolio of lighthouses, more than 1,000.
                                                 
Prison for Women National Historic Site of Canada, 40 Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard, Kingston, Ontario. The new owner is creating condos and retail space in the building, and residential towers will be constructed on the land.




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