Once a penitentiary, museum, post office, military base, Dominion Building, experimental farm, RCMP detachment, Fisheries and Oceans property, veteran's hospital and railway station is privatized the property loses all heritage protection and designation.
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The City of Kingston is now in a "danja zone"---Kingston may lose landmarks that make the community a tourist mecca:
The Prison for Women
Kingston Penitentiary
Portsmouth Olympic Harbour
The Collins Bay Institution - known as Disneyland North.
The Martello Towers
The Penitentiary Museum, located across the street from the Pen.
The former home of Sir John A. Macdonald, Bellevue House?
The Isabel McNeill Halfway House.
Kingston Mills - Parks Canada is planning to sell bridges, dams, locks, etc.
The Rockwood Hospital - The Ontario Realty Corporation is selling the building, which was built by Kingston Penitentiary inmates to house individuals who could not cope with incarceration in the Pen.
Kingston Armoury on Montreal Street. (The Windsor Ontario armoury is now owned by the University of Windsor and Wallis House located at 589 Rideau Street in Ottawa is a multi million dollar condominium complex. Armouries located in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Montreal were denationalized.
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The City of Kingston is changing its official motto "Where history and innovation thrive" because local politicians can see the writing on the wall, the word "history" will have to be removed from the motto. And the Martello Tower image will have to be removed from their Official Flag.
A previous Trudeau government bought the Campanile Complex in 1973, when it was called the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame.
Years ago, many people in Alta Vista were bitterly opposed to a project on Smyth Road. And they lost the battle:
September 16, 1999 - Public Comments about 363 Smyth Road Ottawa:
"Smyth Road is already too busy".
"Width of the single family lots are too narrow, not in character with the community".
"Will the water table be reduced? Impact on pond south of Smyth Road".
"Do not want a sound wall along Smyth Road as it would not be in keeping with the character of the community. The new units should front Smyth Road and "suffer" like the existing units."
"Development of the site means a loss of a large parcel of open space owned by the Crown."
"Development will put a strain on school space."
"This is Crown land-our land- and there should be no rush to develop it."
(From: [PDF] That Council give draft approval to the proposed subdivision at 363...")
"It is apparent that the consensus from the residents in the surrounding community was overwhelmingly negative...This totally unnecessary and unwanted project has now been approved over our heads by the City." A Stompin' Tom Connors video on YouTube called "Movin' In (from Montreal by Train)" brings back fond memories of the CNR.
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