Posted: Apr 18, 2021 9:00 AM PT | Last Updated: April 18
The Hope Station House has stood for more than 100 years in Hope, B.C. but it is in danger of having its heritage status revoked and the building could be demolished. (CPHSH s Save the 1916 Hope Station House/Facebook)
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The first thing travellers from Vancouver see when they drive into Hope off the Trans-Canada Highway is a handsome old train station.
But not for much longer: the District of Hope wants to tear it down.
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Hope has been leasing the property where the station is located from the province’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. Hope had plans to fix up the 1916 structure and turn it into a tourist info-centre, but the proposal fell apart.