Wondering where the lions are.

The lions guarded or they still guard a post office located at 59 Sparks Street, Ottawa.  According to a Google street view from 2018, there is a tall fence surrounding the entire site, and the doors of the Classified Heritage Building are covered with wooden boards. Photo is from Flickr.

What is going on, National Capital Commission and Public Works. Why are so many buildings in the Mall vacant and why are businesses being offered month-to-month leases. As I have said before, the Trudeau government expropriated part of Sparks Street Mall in 1973, to save it from what is happening now. From potential mass demolition, privatization and the construction of residential and office towers. The properties on the northern half of the Sparks Street Mall are owned by PWGSC but the department is now planning to redevelop the Parliamentary Precinct.

A Canadian National Railway ticket office was in the Canada Four Corners building, 93 Sparks. Part of the Rideau Club can be seen on the right, it burned down.

Canada's Four Corners today. There is a statue of Terry Fox on the plaza facing Wellington. The Parliament Buildings can be seen in the distance.