Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Government of Canada properties that were privatized within the past 20 years.

Jean-Charles Chapais Experimental Farm, Levis Quebec - Agriculture Canada.

1,000 federal lighthouses including Peggy's Cove and the Bonavista Lighthouse - Fisheries and Oceans.

Constitution Building, 305 Rideau Street, Ottawa - DND.

The Oak Park Armoury, 933 Gladstone in Little Italy, Ottawa - DND.

Queen Juliana Park, 870 Carling Avenue, Ottawa - Public Works.

Kitsilano Coast Guard Base, Vancouver, British Columbia - Fisheries and Oceans - reopened by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Booth Street campus, Carling Avenue, Ottawa - Natural Resources.

Frelighsburg Experimental Farm, Quebec - Agriculture Canada. Reopened by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Prison for Women, 40 Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard, Kingston Ontario. Corrections.

Senator Herve J. Michaud Research Farm, Bouctouche, New Brunswick. Agriculture Canada. MP Domenic LeBlanc was opposed to the sale.

Senneville Lodge, Senneville Quebec. Veteran's Affairs.

Federal Study Centre, 1495 Heron Road, Ottawa. Public Works.

Upton Experimental Farm, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Agriculture Canada.

Kapuskasing Beef Research Farm, Northern Ontario - Agriculture Canada.

The 88-acre Moffat Farm near Mooney's Bay and Hog's Back, Ottawa - Veteran's Affairs.

National Capital Commission Headquarters, 291 Carling Avenue, Ottawa - NCC.

CFB Rockcliffe, Ottawa - DND.

Almonte Post Office, 73 Mill Street, Almonte Ontario - Canada Post.

John D. Higinbotham Building, 706 - 4th Avenue, Lethbridge, Alberta. Housed Canada Post, Manpower, Canada Customs.

Dominion Public Building, One Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario. Located next to Union Station. More than 1,000 government employees, mainly Revenue Canada employees were evicted.

The National Capital Commission demolished 106-116 Sparks Street, Ottawa so that a luxury residential tower could be constructed. The government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau bought the entire Sparks Street Mall in 1973, so that the heritage buildings would be preserved and no high rises would be built. The NCC owned the properties on the south side of the Mall; while PWGSC owns the north side properties.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee Building, 90 Sparks Street, Ottawa. Public Works then National Capital Commission. 

CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre, 181 Queen between Queen and Sparks Street. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Skyline Campus, 1341 Baseline Road, Ottawa. Agriculture Canada.

Harry Hays Building, 220 4th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta.

Canada Post Mail Processing Plant, 495 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.Canada Post.

Montgomery's Tavern National Historic Site of Canada, 2384 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario. Canada Post.

Graham Spry CBC Building, 250 Lanark Avenue, Westboro, Ottawa. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Rochester Field, also known as Rochester Park. Part of Maplelawn, 497-529 Richmond Road, Westboro, Ottawa. National Capital Commission.

RCMP Headquarters, 4225 Boulevard Dorchester Ouest, Westmount, Quebec. Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Revenue Canada Building, 305 Rene Levesque Blvd. West, Montreal.

Joseph Shepard, 4900 Yonge Street, North York, Toronto, Ontario.

Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta.

(See the YouTube video "PSAC National President John Gordon delivers speech.")

 The government cancelled their plan to sell the Sinclair Centre to Larco:

Janet Sinclair, daughter of the Hon. James Sinclair after whom the building was named.(Photo is from pressreader.com and Vancouver Sun.)



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