Kingston, Ontario and the loss of federal properties.

The Portsmouth Olympic Harbour -  Taxpayers of Ontario donated this land to the City of Kingston after the 1976 Olympics. Petition-Save the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour Greenspace and Character "The park land owned by the city should not be sold for condo/residential development. WE DO NOT WANT TO GIVE UP THIS GREAT WATERFRONT PARK TO DEVELOPMENT."

Properties that will be sold and converted to housing.

• Isabel MacNeill Halfway House, 525 King Street West.
• St. Helen's Complex, 440 King Street West
• Stone Gables, 462 King Street West
• Kingston Penitentiary "Selective demolition of the Main Walls can provide entrances for automobiles and buses."(City of Kingston Projects-Kingston Penitentiary and the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, page 74,) The South Workshop is facing demolition to make way for high-rise condominiums. "The South Workshop, also known as building C-1 to C-6 at Kingston Penitentiary is an impressive 19th century, industrial building with a temple facade and a Greek cross plan. The solid stone building is made up of four large wings radiating from a central rotunda." Parks Canada. 

  

  The South Workshop appeared in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries.

  
  
  
  
  

Kingston buys prime waterfront land from federal government for a token sum of $2." billhutchins Global News.

"Marina City would cover the site of the old Canadian Locomotive Works and adjacent areas, some of which are owned by the federal government. The project would include some 750 apartments in three towers, townhouses, shops, offices, a hotel and a convention centre and a marina. A total of 1,300 underground parking spaces are provided. (Architecture Canada newsmagazine, July 20, 1970 page 5/10.)

"Kingston developer to buy Marine Museum Property." Kingston Whig Standard.

The Kingston Pen condominiums.

The Rideau Canal and Kingston Fortifications may lose UNESCO World Heritage designation...

if a hospital is built on the Farm in Ottawa. "On July 27, 2007, the Rideau Canal and Kingston Fortifications were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site by UNESCO's World Heritage Committee. The site is made up of six elements: The Rideau Canal (lock stations and waterway), and the fortification sites in Kingston which consist of Fort Henry, Fort Frederick, Cathcart Tower, Shoal Tower and Murney Tower".

"The Rideau Canal is a large strategic canal constructed for military purposes which played a crucial contributory role in allowing British forces to defend the Colony of Canada against the United States of America."

UNESCO told the Canadian government that the waterway and fortifications would be negatively affected, by the following projects:

• The Ottawa hospital campus on the Experimental Farm
• The Chateau Laurier proposed expansion (Ottawa)
• The Rideau Marina redevelopment (Kingston)
• Highway 417 bridge rehabilitation (Ottawa)
• Rideau Canal Crossing pedestrian bridge (Ottawa)
• Third Bridge Crossing (Kingston)
• Former Davis Tannery Brownfield Site Redevelopment (Kingston)
• Various Federal Infrastructure Investment Program projects along the length of the Rideau Canal World Heritage property. (The information is from "State of Conservation Report, Rideau Canal, May 2018")

House of Commons Ottawa February 19, 2007 MP Gord Brown (Leeds-Grenville) CPC: "Mr. Speaker, it is appropriate that I am speaking about the Rideau Canal on Heritage Day. It encompasses many communities, all with unique heritage: Seeley's Bay, Newboro, Westport, Portland, Perth, Rideau Ferry, Smiths Falls, Merrickville, Kemptville and Manotick. It is a heritage river, a national historic site and hopefully, will soon be a World Heritage Site."

National Historic Sites of Canada and UNESCO  "The designation brings international attention to the need for the preservation and conservation of the site. It brings tourism. It can provide funds for restoration, preservation and training."

The map and information are from "Canadian Armed Forces Review" a magazine created by my Dad.

 

"In September 1880, the British government granted to Canada all of the territory north of the U.S. border, and between the 60th and 141st meridians in West Longitude, extending to the North Pole." 

A Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft at Rankin Inlet in the Northwest Territories.1969.

The airplane dropped off supplies to a British Trans-Arctic Expedition at the North Pole.  

The British Expedition was travelling across the Arctic Ice Cap from Point Barrow, Alaska to Spitzbergen, Norway.

House of Commons Ottawa January 21, 1985 Mr. Dyck (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State) (Government House Leader) Progressive Conservative: "...We must have a review and must know what foreign ownership there is now in this country. The Americans do it. Just last month I note that a Canadian who bought some land in Mississippi has now been ordered by the courts to turn it over because foreigners are not allowed to own land...There are laws in the United States Midwest against the  ownership of oil and gas and farm lands."

O Canada

"When every Canadian, new or old, in whatever section of this land he may have been reared, can truly say to himself, 'Every inch of this country, every foot in whatever province it may be situated, every mile of prairie, every hill, every ounce of water, every field, every mountain, every stream, are mine own heritage, mine for my children and my children's children,' then we can say 'Canada is a great nation'. Great not only in its resources, great not only in its boundless wealth, but great also in the spirit and unity of its people." (Hon. Charles Gavin Power, KC, MP, Senator, A National Historic Person of Canada. page 228.) 

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we should have our own national flag. We want something that is a symbol of true Canadianism." (Mr. Donald MacKay, page 159.)

"In 1919 we were in opposition. In 1948 we are in office. We were in favour of removing trade obstructions then. We are in favour of removing every form of obstruction now, including tariffs, objectionable exchange controls and restrictions on the movement of commodities." (The Right Honourable Louis St-Laurent, K.C, MP. page 215.)

"'O Canada' should be recognized as the national anthem." (Mr. Donald MacKay, page 217.)

National Liberal Convention, August 5th, 6th and 7th, 1948. The Coliseum in Ottawa.

CFS Alert, a Canadian military base 500 miles from the North Pole.

My Dad---1969.

A Hercules aircraft on a re-supply mission to Alert Base, Northwest Territories.