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".