Tuesday, July 7, 2020

1995 and 1996 - The unimaginable loss of federal Crown property.

1995 -The Canadian National Railway "The People's Railway" is privatized.
Agriculture Canada.
June 24, 1995 - Disposal of Swine Test Station, 4 Buildings and Land, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.
June 29, 1995 - Disposal of Property (Land) Swine Test Station, Kitchener, Ontario.
July 1995 - Disposal of Research Station, Vegreville, Alberta.( One of my uncle's worked at the station for 35 years.)
August 1995 - Disposal of Property, site of old inspection station - Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.
September 1995 - Decommissioning Regina Research Station, Weeds Greenhouse.
November 1995 - Disposal of Lots 91 and 92 - West Val Marie Irrigation Project-sale of surplus land, West Poplar, Saskatchewan.
November 1995 - Disposal of Swine Test Station, St. Cryrille, de Wendover, Quebec.
December 19, 1995 - Disposal of Swine Test Station, Brandon, Manitoba.
January 1996 - Disposal of Property/Fort Erie Inspection Station, Welland, Ontario.
February 5, 1996 - Disposal of Property/ Smithfield Research Farm, Belleville, Ontario.
February 3, 1996 - Disposal of Property/Thunder Bay Experimental Farm, Ontario.
April 1996 - Transfer sale of land to the City of Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
April 1996 - Disposal of Property, Lavaltrie, Quebec (Land) Montreal.
Decommissioning of federal property at Victoria, British Columbia; lease of Park to Provincial Capital Commission.
May 30 1996 - Kentville, Nova Scotia -Disposal of Burgher Hill property.
May 30, 1996 - Kentville, Nova Scotia, disposal of Land, north of Main Street.
May 1996 - Disposal of Sheffield Farm House.
August 1996 - Decommissioning of the Prince George Experimental Farm, Kamloops, British Columbia.
(Information is from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency website.)
1995 - At least 40 buildings on the Central Experimental Farm, Carling Avenue Ottawa are slated for demolition including the Dominion Observatory.
 Heritage Ottawa, the Province of Ontario, Heritage Canada Foundation and the City of Ottawa save the Booth Barn.
     "Before heritage designation, plans were in place to demolish nearly forty buildings on the Farm as being surplus to their needs. Fallow farm lands were described as "vacant" and the general plan was to sell off surplus land to developers. Funds were cut to the Fletcher Wildlife Garden, the Arboretum and the Explorer Roses....Never back in 1996 could we have predicted such a fortunate turn of events, nor such a protective vision for the Farm." (Heritage Ottawa Newsletter, Summer of 1998, Volume 25, No. 2, Page 7/8.)

National Capital Commission.

Military
Royal Roads Military College, Victoria British Columbia.
 CFB Moncton, New Brunswick.
CFB Chilliwack, British Columbia, where actor Michael J. Fox grew up.
 Flin Flon, Manitoba, Surplus Property.
 CFB London, Ontario - Decommissioned.
Canada Post
"If Canada Post is so committed to rural service, why has it either closed or amalgamated 1,700 of its rural post offices? (Mr. Philip Mayfield (Cariboo-Chilcotin) House of Commons Ottawa, November 27, 1995.)
Armouries
The Wallis House condominiums, Ottawa were placed on the market in 1995.
Forestry Canada
Prince George , BC, Forestry Canada Campus.


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