Market Square
Barriefield Village
Old Sydenham
"The Ontario Heritage Act"
- It's purpose: to give municipalities and the provincial government powers to preserve the heritage of Ontario.
- It's primary focus: to protect heritage properties and archaeological sites.
- Important provisions: It also mandates a Crown agency-Ontario Heritage Trust- and the Conservation Review Board-a tribunal that hears objections to municipal objections under the Act.
The Old Don Jail in Toronto was slated for demolition, before community groups became involved and saved the prison. Now the Don Jail is open to the public, and the building is a filming location for movies and television programs including "Suits".
The Kingston Provincial Campus is a Cultural Heritage Landscape, because the Rockwood Hospital, Rockwood Villa, gazebo and several other irreplaceable buildings are located on the site. The Ontario government agency that privatizes provincially owned land and buildings is selling the campus.
If the property becomes a UNESCO Cultural Landscape, the entire site that is currently being sold will be untouchable:
UNESCO, A UNITED NATIONS AGENCY
Designated cultural landscape
"-Garden and parkland landscape, often associated with religious or other monumental buildings..."
Rockwood Asylum is a monumental building, in my opinion, built by Kingston Penitentiary inmates; and housed by prisoners who were too mentally unstable to be incarcerated at the Pen. Constructed with limestone, Rockwood will last for thousands of years. The limestone Great Pyramid of Giza is 4,000 years old, and the foundation of the Parthenon in Athens is limestone. Infrastructure Ontario calls empty hospitals and jails "ghost buildings" and they are all endangered, the focus of redevelopment or destruction.
The Kingston Provincial Campus is a Cultural Heritage Landscape, because the Rockwood Hospital, Rockwood Villa, gazebo and several other irreplaceable buildings are located on the site. The Ontario government agency that privatizes provincially owned land and buildings is selling the campus.
If the property becomes a UNESCO Cultural Landscape, the entire site that is currently being sold will be untouchable:
UNESCO, A UNITED NATIONS AGENCY
Designated cultural landscape
"-Garden and parkland landscape, often associated with religious or other monumental buildings..."
Rockwood Asylum is a monumental building, in my opinion, built by Kingston Penitentiary inmates; and housed by prisoners who were too mentally unstable to be incarcerated at the Pen. Constructed with limestone, Rockwood will last for thousands of years. The limestone Great Pyramid of Giza is 4,000 years old, and the foundation of the Parthenon in Athens is limestone. Infrastructure Ontario calls empty hospitals and jails "ghost buildings" and they are all endangered, the focus of redevelopment or destruction.
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| Kingston Provincial Campus. This is a preliminary sketch of how much land will be sacrificed for residential and commercial construction. (Map from OurWindsor.ca.) |
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