ADMS 2320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Canadian Pacific Railway, Bc Rail
30 Apr 2018
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ADMS 2320 Chapter 16 Notes – Summary
Introduction
• CP Rail and the City of Vancouver have been at odds on what should happen to a rail
line that runs down what is called the Arbutus Corridor on the west side of Vancouver.
• CP stopped using the line in the late 1990s, and over the years residents have used the
area on either side of the railway tracks for award-winning community gardens as well
as walking their dogs.
• CP wanted to develop the property for commercial and residential use.
• The city was opposed to this, and a 2006 Supreme Court of Canada judgment gave it the
right to determine how the land would be used.
• The city would like to see the property, which is 11 kilometers long, used as a greenway
and a future transit corridor.
• CP owns the land and wants to develop it or sell it to the city.
• In 2014, CP grew tired of the impasse with Vancouver.
• No talks between the parties had taken place in years.
• The railway announced that it was going to reinstate train service, which it has the legal
right to do, even though the city does not want this to happen.
• Rather than fighting this battle with the city, the railway decided to pick a battle with
the gardeners who were using the private property.
• CP gave notice that it would begin tearing out gardens in August, at the height of
harvest season.
• They then destroyed some of the gardens in mid- August, hoping that pressure from the
community about the loss of their gardens would spur the city into making some sort of
settlement with the company.
• Instead, the move infuriated both gardeners and people living in the area because it was
viewed as a bullying tactic.
• Many of the gardens had existed while BC Rail was still operating, and the company had
not objected to them at the time.
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