Wednesday, March 20, 2019

More historical buildings and landscapes in the Village of Portsmouth.

1.) Penitentiary Water Tower - 61 West Campus Lane, Kingston. In 1969 the Government of Canada transferred prison farm land and an old limestone quarry to Queen's University.

2.) Penitentiary Farm House - 61 West Campus Lane - 1850-1900. The farm house is the oldest Kingston Pen building surviving outside of the prison walls.
3.)  The Penitentiary Stone Quarry - 181 Mowat Avenue is three minutes away from "The Big House". A baseball diamond and a park now inhabit the site where Kingston Pen inmates worked for years, excavating limestone. A plaque was recently unveiled in Garrigan Park, see the YouTube video "Project Book Canada: Unveiling of 'The Convict Loverplaque' .In the video Hugh Christopher Brown sings "The Prisoner's Song" and author Merilyn Simonds reads from her book "The Convict Lover"---a book that is based on correspondence between a penitentiary inmate and a Village of Portsmouth woman during the year 1919.
The Penitentiary Stone Quarry - 181 Mowat Avenue.

4.)  Tunnels - a tunnel connected "The Big House" to the nearby Rockwood Asylum. Rockwood was built to accommodate inmates who could not tolerate living in the prison. A tunnel also connected the penitentiary to the Prison for Women. Actress Sarah Gadon took a photograph of the tunnel during the filming of "Alias Grace", a novel by Margaret Atwood.
A scene from the television program "Alias Grace". Grace is being escorted to the "Governor's House", 555 King Street West. The building is a Corrections Canada museum, open to the public. Photo is from: The kingstonherald.com.

The tunnel connecting Kingston Penitentiary to P4W  across the street. Photo by actress Sarah Gadon, from the kingstonherald.com.





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