People of Kingston, your Martello Towers will be sold off.

     The Martello Towers in Kingston are National Historic Sites of Canada, but that means nothing. Parks Canada designated the Kingston Penitentiary a National Historic Site of Canada, and now half of  the Pen is facing demolition. They also failed to protect the de Havilland building at Downsview in Toronto, hundreds of CPR and CNR train stations; the Laval Federal Penitentiary and the New Westminster Federal Penitentiary.
 As I have said before, the Fraser Institute is calling for the devolution of the National Parks in British Columbia to the province of B.C. The document " Let the Future Begin" by Jean Charest reveals the fact that all federal properties in Canada will be transferred to the Canada Lands Company.

Government leaders in Great Britain privatized many Martello or Napoleonic towers and sold them to real estate developers. They also denationalized council flats, and many episodes of the television show Location, Location, Location feature council or subsidized housing flats that are now worth $100,000 dollars at the very least.
Lighthouses, train stations, prisons and armouries---property that was collectively owned by the citizens of Great Britain---are gone.
Canada is following Great Britain's lead. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation subsidized housing complexes like Benny Farm and Regent Park are gone.

 The Windsor Ontario armoury was sold to the University of Windsor.
     British Rail was privatized in 1994, while the Canadian National Railway was sold off in 1995.
The British Transport Hotels were denationalized in 1982, while the Government of Canada waited until 1988 to transfer our railway hotels to Canadian Pacific Hotels. The CNR and CPR hotels were eventually bought by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
     Over 1,000 lighthouses were declared "surplus" by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
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     The Royal Mail in England and Canada Post properties were privatized by the same person, Dame Moya Greene(Canada Lands Company executive).

Many of these Canada Post properties in Toronto were sold to condominium builders.

Canada Post building at 685 Danforth in Toronto - now a Dollarama.

704 Spadina - sold to the University of Toronto.

1075 Queen Mary East - now a condo.

50 Charles Street East - condominium.

162 Queens Quay - now a condo.

2384 Yonge Street - condominiums.
772 Dovercourt Road is a commercial building.

Canada Lands Company demolished a massive Canada Post mail sorting plant at 1500 rue Ottawa Street in Griffintown Montreal to make way for residential development.

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The Official Flag for the City of Kingston features a Martello Tower. And the logo for the Original  Hockey Hall of Fame Museum located at 1350 Gardeners Road in Kingston has a Martello Tower image.

The Official City of Kingston Flag.

     The Smith Robinson building in Kingston was a government of Canada Crown asset. But Veteran's Affairs declared the building surplus.