Why the Village of Portsmouth in Kingston, Ontario should be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Most of the Kingston Penitentiary will be flattened to facilitate the construction of condominiums, townhouses, a hotel, restaurants and tourist venues.

Residential construction will obstruct views of the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour and Lake Ontario.

A private developer plans to remove bars and locking mechanisms from the interior of the Prison for Women; remove walls because the cells are too small to be converted into condominiums; and build a residential tower on the 8-acre grounds of P4W.

The real estate arm of the Ontario Government, called Infrastructure Ontario, is currently selling the Rockwood Asylum and several hundred more "ghost buildings" including the Perth Jail and Guelph Reformatory.

The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes was sold by the Canadian government in January of 2016, see the Globe and Mail article by Canadian historian J.L. Granatstein "Why is Ottawa sinking Kingston's Marine Museum of the Great Lakes?" The irreplaceable property is located on 55 Ontario Street, only 2.7 km from the Penitentiary Museum of Canada, 555 King Street West.

 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau most likely derailed plans by the Canadian Pacific Railway to demolish Windsor Station in Montreal; Union Station in Toronto and Summerhill Station in North Toronto---the head of the CPR Ian David Sinclair was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Prime Minister Trudeau after Ian David Sinclair refused to demolish the landmarks. And J.L. Granatstein wrote the 1970 book "Marlborough Marathon---One Street Against a Developer" about the CPR's real estate arm Marathon Realty.
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The Ontario Regional Headquarters were transferred to a federal Crown corporation that profits from the sale of "surplus" federal property, the Canada Lands Company.

A Prison for Women jail cell.