Experimental Farm Buildings are endangered.

The Dominion Observatory and Photo Equatorial Building may be demolished, if a new Ottawa Civic Hospital is built on the Farm:
     "Coun. Riley Brockington, who represents the newly leased land, has been trying to lock into the lease conditions that would preserve as many buildings on the property as possible, such as the Dominion Observatory". (From:"Reevely: Feds say they'll pay $11.8 million to clean up new Civic site", Ottawa Citizen February 23, 2018.)
Are you serious?  I thought the mandate of Parks Canada was to protect Canada's cultural history. I was mistaken. Parks Canada is permitting the destruction of Classified Heritage Buildings including the Dominion Public Building in Toronto.
Parks Canada is also contemplating the sale of $8 billion dollars of infrastructure including a bridge that spans the Rideau Canal, the Hog's Back Bridge. The Rideau Canal is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A statement from Catherine McKenna, Minister responsible for Parks Canada:
     "The protection of our heritage places has never been more important...It is only through a unified and collaborative approach that we can create a path forward and secure the future of Canada's heritage places, now and for future generations."
In order to preserve Canada's history for future generations, I have a few suggestions:
1.) Preserve the integrity of the Experimental Farm in Ottawa --- as I have said before, 91 acres of the farm were annexed in 1988 and a subdivision called Central Park was created. Street names are Trump, Bloomingdale
Gotham, Staten
Manhattan,, Fordham and Rutgers.
2.) Change the National Capital Act (1985) by removing NCC's power to "sell, grant, convey or otherwise dispose of or make available any property to any person..." 
The National Capital Commission should be not a Crown corporation that profits from the sale of bridges, a shopping centre and land was was expropriated from ordinary Canadians.  
3.) Permit the United Nations to designate the Village of Portsmouth a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Rideau Centre Shopping Mall,Ottawa.

Plans for Kingston Penitentiary. This is not a joke.

 

People who are opposed to the sale of federal Crown property.

1.) savecfbrockcliffe - Ottawa, Ontario. CFB Rockcliffe was a military base.
2.) Save Downsview Park - Toronto, Ontario. CFB Downsview was a military base.
3.) Downsview Lands Community Voice Association.
4.) Set Downsview Free - GIVE TORONTO CONTROL OF DOWNSVIEW.
4.) Upton Farm Preservation - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - The country and western song "Help Save Old Upton Farm" can be viewed on YouTube. An Agriculture Canada experimental farm was located here.
5.) S.A.V.E. Senneville as a Village Environment - Senneville, Quebec, the property was a Veteran's Affairs lodge and golf course.

6.) Friends of the Farm P.E.I. - Ravenwood Farm is still an Agriculture Canada experimental farm.
7.) Action - Save the Garden City Lands - Richmond, British Columbia. Garden City was a Fisheries and Oceans Canada transmitter site. The song "Garden City Lands" by Safedriverman can be seen on YouTube.
8.)  Save Shannon Park - Shannon Park was a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia military housing complex.
9.) Heritage Montreal - Threatened Emblematic Sites - Silo #5, Montreal, Quebec.
10.) Save Griffintown! - Montreal, Quebec. A Canada Post mail processing plant located at 1500 rue Ottawa was demolished.

11.) Save Jericho Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia - CFB Jericho Beach was a military property.
12.) Save the Kingston Penitentiary and Regional Treatment Centre - Kingston, Ontario.
13.) Friends of Kingston Penitentiary - Kingston, Ontario.
14.) Save Our Prison Farms! - a national campaign.
15.) Keep the Prison Farms - Manitoba.

Petitions
ipetition - Don't Erase History - Protect the Penitentiary.
#ygk Challenge: Save Kingston PEnitentiary and the Regional Treatment Centre.
Save the Kingston Portsmouth Harbour and Green space.
E - 1667 (COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF LAND) Old Port of Montreal, Quebec. The petition was presented to the House of Commons on October 5, 2018.
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Several individuals and community groups are calling for the National Capital Commission to stop selling land to developers. During the 1960's the NCC evicted families from their homes on the premise that the land would remain greenspace in perpetuity (the Ottawa Greenbelt) or the property would be the site of federal buildings, institutions and cultural centres (LeBreton Flats.)
 The NCC wants to sell at least 50 acres of the Experimental Farm to the Civic Hospital.
1.) Protect the Farm - Home|Facebook.
2.) Save the Central Experimental Farm - Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.
3.) Saving the Central Experimental Farm|Heritage Ottawa.
4.) COALITION TO SAVE THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM.
5.) Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and  Health. See the YouTube video "Ottawa prepares to hand over historic farmland to corporate developers" January 21, 2017.
6.) Save the Farm - Protest to save our trees and greenspace - 2017.

Petitions
Petition - Protection of the Central Experimental Farm as a research facility and a national historic site of Canada.
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In 1992 the Daly Building in downtown Ottawa was demolished, and the NCC ignored suggestions that the vacant land should remain public and designated a "John Lennon International Peace Park".
The City of Montreal honoured John Lennon, at the Rue Peel entrance to Mount Royal Park 40 flagstones are engraved with the sentence "Give Peace a Chance" in 40 different languages.

More photos of balloonist Malcolm Brighton, taken in 1969.

1969 photos of Malcolm Brighton, an English balloonist.

John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Malcolm Brighton aboard a hot air balloon in Suffolk England.

John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Malcolm Brighton. From the documentary "The World of John and Yoko."

Why the Kingston Pen is being demolished.

Vacant land is more valuable than a heritage building, a train station, veteran's hospital, military base, an Agriculture Canada experimental farm, museum or a prison.
In the year 2001 CFB Greisbach in Edmonton was transferred to the Crown corporation. The CLC wanted to demolish the Brigadier School, located on the grounds of CFB Griesbach. Representatives from the City of Edmonton said the building was worth $1,603,974 dollars---Canada Lands Company said the building was worthless.
     "Canada Lands Company took the position in MGB 101/05 that the land underlying the improvements on the subject property exceeded the capitalized value of the existing property...therefore, the highest and best use of the property was for vacant land. Accordingly, the land should be valued as vacant land."
Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta
Citation: Canada Lands Company
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Date: 2008/01/22
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Many politicians in Kingston are trying desperately to save the Kingston Penitentiary, including Mr. Bill Glover:
             "It's very,very important that City Council designates Kingston Penitentiary under the provincial legislation to give Council the power to protect this historic property..because federal designation as a National Historic Site of Canada, while it's important, does not protect the property after it passes from public ownership to private hands..." (From: Frontenac Heritage Foundation, Volume 40, Number 1-January 2013,)
Federal heritage laws supersede provincial and municipal heritage laws.
At least 11 limestone buildings at the Pen are slated for demolition, and the guard towers and perimeter walls will be preserved "if possible".
The loss of The Big House and Prison for Women will have a devastating effect on residents of the Limestone City---on their morale, sense of pride and community spirit....How would the people of Paris react if the Eiffel Tower was dismantled "because the land underneath the subject property is more valuable than the Tower."?

Why Experimental Farm land should not be sold.

1.) Ottawa's Experimental Farm is a National Historic Site of Canada.
2.) The proposed location of a new hospital is too close to Dow's Lake, which is a major tourist venue. The Dutch Royal Family sends thousands of tulip bulbs to Ottawa every year to thank the City for providing a sanctuary for the family during World War 11.

Her Majesty Queen Juliana and H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands attend the Tulip Festival at Dow's Lake.

3.) Classified Federal Heritage Buildings are located on the Farm:
The Dominion Observatory
Photo Equatorial Building
Main Dairy Barn
South Azimuth Building
4.)  Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings are located on the Farm:
Seismology Survey Building
Horticulture Building

5.) Agriculture Ministers Bud Olson, Eugene Whelan and Gerry Ritz refused to sell Experimental Farm land. During the year 2007 officials from the Civic Hospital approached Minister of Agriculture Gerry Ritz to see if they could buy CEF property. In addition, Mr. Ritz refused to sell the Ravenwood Experimental Farm in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island.

6.) Several organizations are committed to preserving the Farm:
Save the Experimental Farm - 1974
Rideau Valley Conservation Authority - 1974
Protect the Farm - Home| Facebook
Save the Central Experimental Farm - Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital.
Saving the Central Experimental Farm| Heritage Ottawa.
COALITION TO PROTECT THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM.
Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and Health.
SAVE THE FARM - Protest to save our trees and greenspace - 2017.

7.) Petitions have been sent to federal politicians:
Petition - Protection of the Central Experimental Farm as a research facility and a national historic site of Canada - 2016.
Save Ottawa's Precious Urban Green Space - Change.org.

8.) Newspaper articles:
Peter Anderson| Protect the Experimental Farm|Ottawa Citizen 2014.
Maitland: Civic hospital relocation - Let's save the Farm and get this right - by Leslie Maitland, Ottawa Citizen December 1, 2016.

9.) The National Capital Commission initially decided against selling 60 acres of the land to the Civic Hospital, see the YouTube video "Ottawa prepares to hand over historic federal farmland to corporate developers" January 21, 2017.

 Are federal politicians and bureaucrats following orders from the House of Lords in England or the House of Windsor? Why is the National Capital Commission called a "Crown corporation" and why is federal land known as "Crown land, owned by Her Majesty in Right of Canada."?
All federal real estate in Canada should be "Public land and buildings, owned by the People of Canada."

Environmental groups have been trying to save the Experimental Farm for decades.

1974 Ottawa Journal articles.
The Federal Government is planning to sell Farm land so that a new Civic Hospital can be built on the site. However the National Capital Commission was opposed to that idea, Tunney's Pasture was the preferred location for a new hospital. See the YouTube video "Ottawa prepares to hand over historic federal farmland to corporate developers" January 21, 2017.

Parks Canada employees destroyed 235 trees along the Lachine Canal, Montreal.

See the Global News video "Parks Canada removes trees along Lachine Canal". (October 25 2018) Apparently the trees were perfectly healthy.

 Eighty "non-core" bridges may be sold by Parks Canada, including bridges that span the Chambly, Lachine and Rideau Canals (the Hog's Back Bridge in Ottawa). See articles by CBC reporter Dean Beeby.
     The privatization of our dams, highways, roads, nature trails, culverts and bridges has been given the moniker "asset recycling". President Bill Clinton called the sale of hundreds of American military bases "defence conversion". Guess who profited from "defence conversion"---the Walt Disney Corporation created a museum on the former Presidio military base in San Francisco, and the Packard Bell corporation built a computer assembly plant on a decommissioned Texas military base.
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The Montreal Biodome was the Expo 67 American Pavilion. The Lachine Canal and Biodome were filming locations for a Will Farrell and Jon Heder movie "Blades of Glory". My Dad is wearing the polka dot shirt and striped pants. 

The Government of Canada sold the Mackenzie King and Laurier Avenue bridges to the City of Ottawa. The infrastructure and land were sold through a Privy Council Order-in-Council signed by the Governor General of Canada.

The American Air Base in Thule Greenland.

 



My Dad was a journalist, a photographer and a speechwriter for Canadian Members of Parliament.
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Prime Minister of Canada John Turner

A Christmas card that my Dad received from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

                     

Pyramids will be constructed on the Old Port of Montreal.

A section of the land was sold to astronaut and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte. The property was owned by the People of Canada, and divested through a Privy Council Order-in-Council signed by the Governor General of Canada.

 

Photo from signmedia.ca.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker thought Orders-in-Council were undemocratic:

    "Without an Opposition, decision by discussion would end and be supplanted by virtual dictatorship, for governments prefer to rule by Order-in-Council to Parliament, and bureaucrats prefer to be uncontrolled by Parliament or the courts." (From: An October 27, 1949 speech to the Empire Club at the Royal York Hotel Hotel, Toronto.)
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Will Guy Laliberte build pyramids on Ottawa's LeBreton Flats?

A Corrections Canada property in Kingston Ontario.

The Regional Headquarters for Corrections Canada, Kingston Ontario. The property was worth $17 million dollars.

Read "City, CSC feud over heritage protection of waterfront mansion and villa" by Bill Hutchins, November 21, 2014.

The Government of Canada sold the St. Helen's villa to the City of Kingston, Queen's University and Parks Canada. I am surprised that Parks Canada is involved with this transaction.
They never intervened when the St. Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary was decommissioned and buildings on the property were destroyed. They never objected when most of the New Westminster Penitentiary was reduced to rubble so that townhouses and condos could be built.
 As I have said before, Collins Bay, Joyceville and practically every other other Corrections Canada property in Kingston will eventually be sold, read the following paragraphs:
     A Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety - Report of the Correctional Service of Canada (2007)
A new prison will be constructed in Kingston Ontario, populated from the consolidation of
Pittsburgh
Joyceville
Collins Bay Institution
Kingston Penitentiary
The Regional Treatment Centre.
Warkworth
Millhaven
(See page 198)
Joyceville and Pittsburgh farm land could be worth $2 million dollars, while the Regional Headquarters at 440 and 462 King Street West in Kingston could net $17 million dollars.(Page 208).
 Collins Bay Institution and the surrounding 835 acres of land will eventually be divested:
Frontenac Institution Lands-Queen's University
"Currently Correctional Services of Canada, a custodial department of the Federal Government, owns the Frontenac Institution Lands, and if divested, the uses of these lands could be constrained by decisions made by the Canada Lands Company." (Page 117)
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and another individual taped a message to the door of St. Helen's, a Regional Headquarters building in Kingston that was sold---see the trailer for the documentary "Til the Cows Come Home".
                                                         The message:
Prison farms belong to all Canadians
Stop ignoring democracy
Save the Farms now!
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Parks Canada never tried to preserve the Air and Space Museum, the Denison Armoury and the de Havilland Building at the former CFB Downsview, Toronto. The museum featured a full-sized replica of the Avro Arrow.
 Parks Canada is now planning to sell $8 billion dollars worth of infrastructure and land in our National Parks, including highways, roads, bridges, nature trails, dams and culverts. I will dedicate my life to saving Canada's National Parks for future generations, and to saving the historic, irreplaceable buildings in the Village of Portsmouth and Collins Bay.
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The New Westminster Federal Penitentiary was built in 1879.

The destruction of the New Westminster Penitentiary, BC.(Photo from Global News.)

Buildings at Saint Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary are being demolished.

Saint Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiary, Laval Quebec.

See the YouTube video Vieux Pen.
Similarities between the Kingston Penitentiary and Saint Vincent-de-Paul Penitentiaries.
1.) Both of the prisons were decommissioned by Corrections Canada.
2.) They were both constructed with limestone.
3.) Kingston Pen and the Laval Pen are endangered. Five Laval Pen buildings will be be leveled or they have already been destroyed. Google the document "Navigabng the Disposal Process-Real Property Institute" for photographs. Kingston Pen is facing the deconstruction of 11 buildings.
4.) The media uses derogatory words to describe the prisons. Kingston Pen is notorious, infamous and hellish, while the Laval pen is grim. See "From place of dread to home sweet home" by Albert Warson, Globe and Mail newspaper September 2005.
5.) The Big House and the Laval pen were both National Historic Sites of Canada, yet Parks Canada never tried to save the landmarks.
6.) The perimeter walls will be breached.
7.) They will be the focus of huge redevelopment---high rise condos, townhouses, a hotel and sailing club will be built on the grounds of The Big House.
8.) Heritage groups are trying to save the landmarks.
9.) They are popular filming locations. KP was a filming location for Alias Grace, the last scene of the first Superman movie, The Blues Brothers 2000 movie and a Danielle Aykroyd video called "Vera Sola Small Minds".
 The movies "Death Race" and "Battlefield Earth" were filmed at the Laval Pen, see "Notorious prison now gold mine", Hamilton Spectator newspaper, July 26 2010.
10.) Politicians claim that both prisons are crumbling. That is not true. They were constructed with limestone and can last for thousands of years. As I have said before, the foundation of the Parthenon and the 4,000 year old Great Pyramid of Giza were built with limestone.
11.) The Pen is a very popular tourist venue, and the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Pen can be transformed into a tourism mecca.
12.) They were built during the 1800's.
13.) Both of the prisons were constructed by inmates.
14.) Both of the prisons were campuses, with libraries, workshops, medical facilities----St. Vincent-de-Paul has a freestanding church.

(work in progress)

Actress Joan Allen plays a sadistic warden in "Death Race".

Leave the Prison for Women alone.

According to a November 15, 2018 City of Kingston report, a company wants to dig up the land surrounding the prison.
The redevelopment of the Prison for Women will never happen. Either the United Nations or the Province of Ontario will intervene and protect the former Recognized Federal Heritage Building. Do local politicians not read newspapers or Internet articles or petitions? Do they realize how many people are fighting to save our penitentiary and architectural history? Anyone who tries to remove the bars and walls from the Prison should be arrested and charged with vandalism. And I will travel to Kingston to stop any bulldozers from disturbing the P4W grounds.

The Government of Canada supports UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund - March 28, 2018 - "The Government of Canada has announced this week a contribution of 200,000 dollars to the Heritage Emergency Fund, in support to UNESCO' s work in the areas of preparedness and response to emergencies affecting cultural heritage." The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Cultural Heritage.

Prison for Women. See the YouTube video called "P4W walls coming down." (Photo from Wikipedia).

A representative from the government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the UN Convention for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage treaty in 1976. The Village of Portsmouth, where  the Corrections Canada properties are located, meets all the criteria for designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site.
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Staff at the City of Kingston contacted a heritage preservation committee when they discovered that Corrections Canada was decommissioning 440 and 442 King Street West:
"Once the Federal Government ceases to own St. Helen's and Stone Gables, the federal heritage protection will be removed, making it susceptible to possible demolition or remodeling. Staff feel it is imperative that these properties be given heritage designation prior to their sale, to ensure the conservation and protection of this cultural heritage asset. (From: MHC-14-067-City of Kingston.)

Prison for Women. A card that I purchased from the Penitentiary Museum, across the street from Kingston Pen. From: Ballow Perspectives Drawing @ Painting.

Stone Gables.

                   

UNESCO could save historic properties in Kingston, Ontario.

 The following buildings and landscapes will be untouchable, off limits to real estate entities:
1.) The Kingston Provincial Campus, where Rockwood Asylum is located. The area is designated an Ontario Cultural Heritage Landscape. An Ontario government agency called Infrastructure Ontario is currently selling hundreds of "ghost buildings" including former psychiatric hospitals.
2.) Kingston Penitentiary
3.) Prison for Women
4.) The Corrections Canada Learning and Development Centre located at 443 Union Street.
5.) The Penitentiary Museum - According to the 1997 document "Let the Future Begin" all federal land and buildings in Canada will be privatized. Google: "Let the Future Begin poltext".
6.) Isabel MacNeill Halfway House
7.) The Church of the Good Thief - City councillors green-lighted a proposal to build residential housing units on the grounds of the Church.
8.) The Portsmouth Olympic Harbour.
9.) A City-owned park right next to the Olympic Harbour, which was a gift from the taxpayers of Ontario to the people of Kingston during the 1976 Olympics.
10.) The Ontario Regional Headquarters for Corrections Canada, 462 King Street West.

The Ontario Regional Headquarters for Corrections Canada were transferred to the Canada Lands Company. Google: "Report cou-15-213-City of Kingston". 

The property located at 462 King Street West encompassed 8.525136 acres.

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All of the land within the red lines will remain public, Google: Kingston Penitentiary Harbourfront Property.

The Rockwood Asylum in Kingston Ontario will either be sold or re purposed.

  Real estate developers would love to get their hands on Rockwood.  A possible newspaper ad:
"Own a piece of the Rock! Buy a condo in Rockwood Place, located right next to Lake Ontario and Lake Ontario Park. The building was constructed with limestone, and features Palladian Arch windows and spiral staircases."
(Note: I visited a patient in the Asylum during the year 1968.)
The Asylum was built by Kingston Penitentiary inmates to house individuals who were too mentally ill to be locked up in the pen. Canada's history no matter how depressing should be respected. Converting a House of Pain into condos is terribly disrespectful; the hospital should be a museum or a teaching centre devoted to psychiatric, philosophical and psychological studies.

The City of Kingston has already put its stamp of approval on the massive redevelopment of the Provincial Campus, where the Asylum is located. Public open houses are nothing more than a sham. Do you really think that Infrastructure Ontario or federal Crown corporations care about suggestions from the general public? The yellow post it notes are probably thrown in the garbage. Decisions about divesting property and zoning changes were made years ago behind closed doors.

The Village of Portsmouth will have to fight the behemoth organizations that are invading their community. Write letters to your Federal Member of Parliament and MPP. Hire lawyers and consult heritage preservation organizations.
The Don Jail in Toronto was nearly demolished, now it is a filming location for the television program "Suits".

Kingston Pen - Not a joke.

Trump Tower Alcatraz - A joke.

The Ontario government is privatizing 243 "surplus" properties.

     Included on the list are former psychiatric hospitals, jails, courthouses, schools and vacant land encompassing 14,000 acres.
 Is the Kingston Provincial Campus on the list? The Rockwood Asylum is located on the Kingston Provincial Campus.
Many Kingstonians are bitterly opposed to the redevelopment of the provincial campus, the nearby Kingston Penitentiary and the Prison for Women.
 Rockwood could be demolished, if the buildings are transferred to a Government of Canada Crown corporation such as the Canada Lands Company. Federal heritage laws supersede provincial and municipal heritage laws. And buildings lose all heritage protection once they are transferred to the Canada Lands Company.
The United Nations agency UNESCO was created to save endangered buildings and landscapes.
    " A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by UNESCO as having cultural historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties." (From: Wikipedia).

In the year 1976 a representative from the government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the World Heritage Convention Treaty.

Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
Article 1
For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as "cultural heritage":
   groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science;
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The Village of Portsmouth in Kingston, Ontario meets all the criteria for inclusion as a UNESCO World Heritage Site:
1.) The Kingston Penitentiary, Prison for Women, Isabel MacNeill Halfway House, Penitentiary Musem, Church of the Good Thief, Penitentiary water tower and the Correctional Learning and Development Centre (443 Union Street) are all clustered in one area. A tunnel connects the Pen to the Prison for Women.
2.) Inmates from Kingston Penitentiary constructed the Kingston Penitentiary, Prison for Women, Rockwood Hospital,the Church of the Good Thief, Penitentiary Museum and the Penitentiary water tower.
3.) All of the buildings were constructed with limestone. Elmhirst House at 443 Union Street has a limestone foundation.
4.) The buildings served a common purpose, or shared a common theme.
5.) The buildings were all protected by federal, provincial or municipal heritage laws, in some cases all three.
6.) Several of the buildings are endangered.
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Local politicians are also trying to preserve the historical integrity of the Village:
City of Kingston Official Plan - October 5, 2015

Potential Heritage Conservation Districts
7.3.C.6.
The City intends to investigate areas for designation as heritage conservation districts, including but not limited to:
(c) Portsmouth Village

 

The Rockwood Asylum, Kingston Ontario.

 People will be dancing in the streets if the government of Canada saves the Kingston Penitentiary, P4W, the Isabel MacNeill House and the Penitentiary Museum.

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Currently for sale:
Psychiatric hospitals - St. Thomas and London. Dr. Richard Bucke was the superintendent of the London Asylum for decades and he was the author of the book "Cosmic Consciousness: A Study of the Evolution of the Human Mind". See: The movie "Beautiful Dreamers"---Colm Feore portrayed Dr. Bucke and Rip Torn was the American poet Walt Whitman.

Jails - Windsor and Chatham. The Guelph Reformatory.
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The bars and walls will be removed from the Prison for Women, Kingston. Photo was sent to me from the Heritage Buildings Review Office, Gatineau Quebec. P4W was a Corrections Canada property.

The Shop Dome Atrium, Kingston Penitentiary. This area will be the focus of extensive redevelopment. Eleven KP limestone buildings are slated for demolition. And the guard towers and walls will be preserved "if possible".(Photo from Wikipedia).

The Central Atrium, Kingston Penitentiary, a.k.a "The Big House".