Half of the Kingston Pen will be flattened to create housing.

Despite the fact that:

1.) The Kingston Pen is the most popular tourist attraction in the city.

2.) The buildings were created with limestone and will last for thousands of years.

3.) The landmark is known as Canada's Taj Mahal and Eiffel Tower.

4.) Guard towers, exterior walls and 10 buildings are scheduled for demolition. Including the South Workshop where an episode of Murdoch Mysteries was filmed:

5.) "Selective demolition of the Main Walls can provide entrances for automobiles and buses." (City of Kingston Project---Kingston Pen and the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, page 74.)

6.) The Pen and the Prison for Women are National Historic Sites of Canada.

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Government of Canada heritage designations.

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A guard tower overlooking Lake Ontario.

10.) City of Kingston Official Plan---Page 368/569. Potential Heritage Conservation Districts in the City of Kingston---May 1, 2018. The City intends to investigate areas for designation as heritage conservation districts including but not limited to:

• King Street West from Portsmouth Village to Barrie Street.
• Portsmouth Village.

The immediate benefit of a Heritage Conservation District is a planning process that respects a community's history and identity. The City has a concentration of heritage buildings, sites, structures, and designed landscapes that are linked by aesthetic, historical and socio-cultural contexts or use. (Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport website, page 10.)

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12.) "It is not inconceivable that they could level the entire site." ( A statement by Sydenham councillor Bill Glover. "Group tries to get Kingston Penitentiary heritage status" by Peter Hendra, Toronto Sun, September 2012.)

13.) "The federal government has the power to demolish them. However, we have concluded that would be absolutely atrocious, grievous and scandalous." (Floyd Patterson, President of the Frontenac Heritage Foundation, a statement to Peter Hendra, Toronto Sun, September 2012.)