The Canada Lands Company has encountered a bridge too far.

     Too many people are opposed to their plan to irrevocably change the Kingston Penitentiary.
Community Groups
Friends of Kingston Penitentiary
The Frontenac Heritage Foundation
The Coalition of Kingston Communities
Kingston Municipal Heritage Committee.

Chris Ball, a Kingston municipal election candidate for Portsmouth District, said:
     "The biggest thing that everyone's mentioned when I'm at their door is change, between all the redevelopment that has been happening in Portsmouth District; Kingston Pen, the Provincial Campus and the Prison for Women...There's a big concern about the changing character of neighbourhoods..."( From: A YouTube video, Google "Kingston Municipal Election Candidates: Portsmouth Village" by Elliot Ferguson, Whig Standard.)

 Bill Glover, a city councillor for the Sydenham District, told a Sun newspaper reporter:
     "It's not inconceivable that they could level the whole site." (From: "Group tries to get Kingston Penitentiary heritage status"  by Peter Hendra, Toronto Sun, September 2012.)

The Taylor Hazell Architects Report recommends that the entire site be given heritage designation, and local architectural historian Jennifer McKendry stated that ten irreplaceable limestone buildings at KP are slated for demolition. (From: "Concern Raised Regarding the Penitentiary Planning Process" The Coalition of Kingston Communities.)

Petitions
Save the Kingston Portsmouth Olympic Harbour and Greenspace
#ygk Challenge: Save Kingston Pen and the Regional Treatment Centre
ipetitions-Don't Erase History-Protect the Penitentiary.
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Opinion: Please keep Kingston Pen and Portsmouth Harbour as the historical sites they are for future generations.
     The Kingston Penitentiary with its beautiful buildings and the unique history should not fall prey to the seeming determination to fill it with yet another housing development, high rise condos and the introduction of roadways.
     Dream big! Keep the Penitentiary as it is externally with its beautiful setting, walls and buildings. Renovate the interior of the buildings for use by the public as almost all the proposals suggest...Do not remove the existing Penitentiary walls, it then loses all significance as a Penitentiary, this was already done at the Women's Pen. Once buildings and walls come down they are gone forever!
Sincerely
Dixie Dittburner, Portsmouth.
(From: SouthWesternOntario.ca November 2016.)
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MOTIONS
Consideration of Designation
THAT 525, 555 and 560 King Street West also known as Kingston Penitentiary be referred to the Historic Properties Research Working Group for consideration as a property of cultural heritage value.  Moved by Mr. Taylor, Seconded by Mr. Duerkop. CARRIED.
Mr. Downey asked that the wall around the building also be included as other designated buildings did not include the walls in the designation and now these walls have been removed such as what happened at the Frontenac County Court House.
(From: City of Kingston Municipal Heritage Committee Minutes - Meeting 11- 2012.)
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Haunted Walks calls for Kingston Penitentiary to Become "Alcatraz of the North".
     All Canadians can help preserve this National Historic Site by writing a short email to:
1.) Site Planning Consultants: portsmouthvisioning@planport.ca.
2.) Mayor Bryan Paterson: mayor@cityofkingston.ca.

Excerpts from a letter published by the Kingston Whig-Standard, from Haunted Walks Founder/CEO Glen Shackleton:
     "Although The Haunted Walk started in Kingston, we have also given tours of the old Ottawa jail for more than 20 years...Jail tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry worldwide...Condos are springing up all across the country, but there is only one Kingston Penitentiary."