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.)