The Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary ---the ultimate gated community.

Photo by Richard-Pierre Vidal.

     Canada Lands Company planned to sell the former prison in Laval, Quebec to developers, or to simply demolish the complex.
Similarities between the Saint- Vincent- de- Paul Penitentiary and Kingston Penitentiary:

1.) The media uses the same terms to describe the prisons: KP and the Laval Pen are notorious."What to do with the grim fortress?" (See: "From place of dread to home sweet home" by Albert Warson, Globe and Mail, September 2005.)

2.) Canada Lands Company owns Kingston Pen and the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Pen. What a coincidence, the properties were offered to all the Canadian federal agencies and Crown corporations, but only the CLC was interested. I am surprised that Parks Canada did not try to save the prisons, because they are both National Historic Sites of Canada.

3.) People claim that the Kingston Pen and  Laval Pen are both crumbling. "We're just keeping the buildings alive".
(See: "From place of dread to home sweet home", Globe and Mail.) That is a lie. The prisons are not crumbling. As I have said before, buildings that are constructed with limestone can potentially last for thousands of years. The foundation of the Parthenon in Greece, and the Great Pyramid of Giza are made of limestone.
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Canada's Top 10 Endangered Places - National Trust for Canada 2016
     Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary - Laval, Quebec. 
I nominate the Kingston Penitentiary and the nearby Prison for Women as 2018 Endangered Places in Canada.
The following individuals and agencies are responsible for the impending destruction of Portsmouth Village, The Big House and the Prison for Women:
Canada Lands Company - an arms-length federal Crown corporation that privatizes federal land and buildings. That specializes in real estate development and keeps all the money from the sale of former Government of Canada land and buildings---post offices, museums, experimental farms, Veterans Affairs properties...

Parks Canada - What is the point of being designated a National Historic Site of Canada if that means nothing. Once the Canada Lands Company acquires a property, the building loses all heritage designation and protection. The Air and Space Museum at Downsview found out about that convenient loophole, when they were trying to save the de Havilland Aircraft Factory. Canada Lands Company turned the de Havilland building over to Centennial College of Toronto. The Air and Space Museum had a replica of the Avro Arrow, and an original Avro Arrow may be buried at Downsview.

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A city's built history, known throughout the world, will soon be rubble, thanks to:
Insatiable greed
privatization
apathy