Monday, August 31, 2020

The Kingston Penitentiary and the Prison for Women are still standing.

Despite the fact that: the Government of Canada wanted to demolish Kingston Pen guard towers, perimeter walls and 11 limestone buildings.

---The Village of Portsmouth is not a Heritage Conservation District protected by Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act.

---The Village of Portsmouth is not a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site.

---A developer bought the Prison for Women on 40 Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard and wants to convert the National Historic Site into condominiums and commercial space. Residential towers and a parking lot will encompass the surrounding 8 acres of land.

The Penitentiary, Prison for Women, Church of the Good Thief, Penitentiary WaterTower, Rockwood Hospital, Corrections Canada Museum, Isabel MacNeill Halfway House, Portsmouth Halfway House, Corrections Canada Training Centre and Stone Gables were built by KP imates.All of the buildings were made with local limestone and they can last 4 thousand years. Similar to the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

The Corrections Canada Museum. The Prison for Women can be seen in the background.


The Museum was "The Governor's Mansion" in a television miniseries called "Alias Grace". It was an adaptation of a Margaret Atwood novel.



 Isabel MacNeill Halfway House for Women, 525 King Street West, Kingston, Ontario.

The tunnel during filming of "Alias Grace."

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