Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Government of Ontario is selling 243 properties.

My Mother is wearing the green outfit. Montreal Street near Raglan Street, 1972.
Kingston Psychiatric Hospital - Rockwood is a limestone building that was constructed by Kingston Penitentiary inmates to house individuals who could not cope with living in the penitentiary. It is located in the Village of Portsmouth where the neighbourhood must be psychologically traumatized from:
1.) the loss of Corrections Canada buildings.
2.) the loss of a city-owned park near the Olympic harbour. During the 1976 Olympics the tax payers of Ontario gave this park to the city.
3.) the construction of  residential housing on the Church of the Good Thief land.
4.) The construction of a residential tower on the grounds of P4W.
If the Village of Portsmouth is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site all of the Corrections Canada buildings and Rockwood will be saved. The United Nations has already preserved Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was a prisoner; and the Australian convict sites. The Village meets all the criteria for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site:

  • The Kingston Pen, Prison for Women, Isabel McNeill Halfway House, Penitentiary Water Tower, Penitentiary Museum, the Training Centre on Union Street, and Church of the Good Thief are all clustered in one area.
  • Kingston Pen inmates constructed all the buildings and the tower.
  • The buildings and and tower were created with limestone.
  • They were all designated municipal, provincial or federal heritage buildings, in some cases all three levels of government.
  • They share a common purpose or a common theme.
  • They are all endangered landmarks. 

During the summer of 1972 my family and I inhabited an Albert Street house.
The Rogers Centre parking lot - 305 Bremner Boulevard, Toronto

London Psychiatric Hospital - London - Canadian mystic and psychiatrist Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. practiced here for decades. Dr. Bucke wrote:
Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. He also authored books about the cosmic consciousness of Jesus Christ, Buddha, William Blake, Francis Bacon, Muhammad, Plotinus, Dante, Ramakrishna and Walt Whitman.
In the movie "Beautiful Dreamers" Colm Feore portrayed Dr. Bucke and Rip Torn played American poet Walt Whitman.
Former St. Joseph's Psychiatric Hospital - Hamilton, Ontario.
Former Guelph Correctional Centre - Guelph.

Former Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital - Thunder Bay.

Former St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital - St. Thomas.

Windsor Jail

Perth Jail
Rockwood Asylum.





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