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