Wednesday, May 8, 2019

The Government of Ontario saved a Toronto prison chapel.

I cannot understand why the Province of Ontario will not intervene and stop the redevelopment of the Prison for Women, 40 Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard, Kingston.
Liberty Village Park in Toronto. The former Toronto Central Prison Chapel is the red building on the left.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT, R.S.O., 1990, CHAPTER 0.18 AND 20 STRACHAN AVENUE, CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO

NOTICE OF PASSING OF BY-LAW
To: Canada Lands Company CLC Ltd.                                        Ontario Heritage Foundation
200 King Street West                                                                    10 Adelaide Street East
Suite 1509                                                                                     Toronto, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario                                                                           M5C 1J3
M5H 3T4

Inglis Limited
1901 Minnesota Court
Mississauga, Ontario
L5N 3A7

Take notice that the Council of the Corporation of the City of Toronto has passed By-law No. 1996-0378 to designate 20 Strachan (Central Prison Chapel) as being of architectural and historical value or interest.  Dated at Toronto this 27th day of August 1996.
(signed)
City Clerk

Barbara Hall, Mayor of Toronto
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Historical Name - Central Prison Chapel
Constructed - 1877
Architect - Kivas Tully
Original owner - Province of Ontario
Original use - Institutional (prison).
Current use - vacant
Heritage Category - Notable Heritage Property (Category B)
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Kivas Tully also designed the University of Toronto's Trinity College, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan; and he designed Cobourg, Ontario's Victoria Hall:
Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario. (Photo from Wikipedia.)



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