savecfbrockcliffe's blog: The Village of Portsmouth may be designated a Heritage Conservation District.

Several individuals are desperate to save the Kingston Penitentiary from demolition and redevelopment by the Canada Lands Company. I called the office of my Member of Provincial Parliament a few minutes ago, so that I can obtain and fill out HCD documents that will save many of the historic properties in the Village:
Kingston Pen
Prison for Women
Church of the Good Thief
Isabel MacNeill Halfway House
Corrections Canada Museum
Penitentiary Water Tower
Corrections Canada buildings on Union Street, including Calderwood and Elmhirst.
Stone Gables
St. Helen's
Rockwood Asylum
The Provincial Campus where the Asylum, Rockwood Villa. etc. are located.

On November 19, 2017 the Portsmouth District Association agreed to the suggestion that the Village should be a Heritage Conservation District:

Only background research has been completed.
Next step would be to embark on an area study which would determine viability, boundaries and changes required to the OP in consultation with Heritage Kingston and the public.
HCD designation and plan would be approved through a by-law. This is appealable to the Ontario Municipal Board.
Process would take at least two years.

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Heritage Properties Working Group-Corporation of the City of Kingston - October 10, 2017.

A discussion around the possible use of Part V (Heritage District) of the Ontario Heritage Act as a means of conserving the tangible and intangible heritage value of the property.

Sherman (Hill) asked if it made sense to protect this site under Part V of the Heritage Act, as a Heritage Conservation District. He noted that a district would better reflect the community feel/use of the site as well as the feeling of containment associated with the site.

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The Union Station Heritage Conservation District in Toronto. The buildings that are part of the Union Station HCD:
1.) Union Station
2.) Royal York Hotel
3.) The John Street Roundhouse - a gift from the Canadian Pacific Railway to the City. The roundhouse is the orange, U-shaped property on the bottom left. The Canadian National Railway's Spadina Roundhouse was not preserved, it was demolished so that the SkyDome/Rogers Centre could be built.
4.) The Dominion Public Building, next to Union Station. Sold by the Federal Government of Canada to Larco Investments of Vancouver in 2017.
5.) CN Tower.

The Union Station Heritage Conservation District, protected by Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act.

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Hopefully, politicians will designate Portsmouth Village a Heritage Conservation District.

Calderwood is now part of the Corrections Canada Staff College. (Photo from Federal Heritage Buildings Review Office.)

Left section, redrawn from National Archives of Canada National Map Collection. Document by Michel Benoit. The writing in blue ink is my own. Since 1895, the Kingston Penitentiary has lost property due to the 1976 Olympic Games at Portsmouth Harbour; residential development, and the transfer of limestone quarry land to Queen's University in 1969. In the 1989 map the following landmarks and landscapes are pointed out: Kingston Penitentiary; Prison for Women; Corrections Canada Staff College on Union Street; Penitentiary Museum and the Halfway House.

Books about the architecture of Kingston, Ontario: