#Heritage Ottawa #union stationHow Union Station was saved from becoming a parking lot for tour buses[ ](https://heritageottawa.org/50years/union-station) " _ In 1966 the last train pulled out of Union Station because the sordid freight yards crowding the Rideau Canal were to become parklands for people to enjoy. There remained the noble pile built in 1912 to be a sort of cathedral in an age when railways were religion. ...