1.) Earnscliffe on Sussex Drive, Ottawa - The British Embassy. "A single report titled 'Historico-Architectural significance of the Sir John A. Macdonald buildings still standing in Kingston' May 1960, was used by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada when it recommended that Earnscliffe should be considered 'a national shrine' and that the government should 'investigate ways and means to acquire it for this purpose.'
2,) The Quebec Bridge - The multinational CN Rail.
3.) The former Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario.
4.) The former Teacher's College, 195 Elgin Street, is now owned by the Corporation of the City of Ottawa:
House of Commons Ottawa June 21, 1984. Mr. Donald W. Munro (Esquimalt-Saanich): "Mr. Speaker, the Royal Society of Canada announced not long ago that it wanted to establish a National House of Academics in the vacant building formerly occupied by the Teacher's College, on the corner of Elgin and Lisgar in Ottawa..."
"The Teacher's College, now the property of Public Works Canada, has been empty since 1978. Now that the deadline for termination of negotiations between Public Works Canada and the City of Ottawa is drawing near, I would like to suggest that the House support the Royal Society, in urging the federal government to assign the Teacher's College to the Royal Society, on a rental basis, so that it may become Canada's "National House of Academics."
When a National Historic Site of Canada is privatized it loses all protection: "It's very, very important that City Council designates Kingston Penitentiary under the provincial legislation to give Council the power to protect this historic property...because federal designation as a National Historic Site of Canada, while it's important, does not protect the property after it passes from public ownership to private hands." (From: Frontenac Heritage Foundation, Volume 40, Number 1-January 2013. A quote from City of Kingston Councillor Bill Glover.)
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