St. Mary's Parish Hall

St. Mary's Parish Hall
Postcard showing the Parish Hall (at the left) beside the Church, published before 1919.

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

Notes

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

51°02′12″N 114°03′55″W / 51.0366°N 114.0652°W / 51.0366; -114.0652