Wednesday, December 12, 2018

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.










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