St. Mary's Parish Hall

St. Mary's Parish Hall is a historic sandstone building in the Mission District of Calgary. It was built in 1905 to be used as a Roman Catholic parish hall, but starting in 1913 was adaptively reused as a railway station by the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR), during which time it was known as Calgary Southwest Railway Station. It was then operated as a railway station by the CNoR's successor, the Canadian National Railway (CN) until 1971. In 1981 the building was named a Provincial Historic Resource of Alberta. In 1985 a fire gutted most of the interior and it was restored in 1987.[1]

Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Terminus CalgaryWinnipeg Barlow Junction
toward Winnipeg
CalgaryEdmonton via Mirror Barlow Junction
toward Edmonton
CalgaryEdmonton via Big Valley Drumheller
toward Edmonton
St. Mary's Parish Hall
Postcard showing the Parish Hall (at the left) beside the Church, published before 1919.

Notes

  1. "St. Mary's Parish Hall". HistoricPlaces.ca. Parks Canada. Retrieved August 9, 2022.

51.0366°N 114.0652°W / 51.0366; -114.0652


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