The Ontario government saved a prison chapel.

 IN THE MATTER OF THE ONTARIO HERITAGE ACT, R.S.0., CHAPTER 0.18 AND 20 STRACHAN AVENUE, CITY OF TORONTO, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO.

NOTICE OF PASSING A BY-LAW TO:

Canada Lands Company CLC Ltd., 200 King Street West, Suite 1509, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3T4

Inglis Limited, 1901 Minnesota Court, Mississauga, Ontario L5N 3A7

Ontario Heritage Foundation, 10 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, Ontario M5C 1J3

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

Liberty Village Park. The former Prison Chapel is the red building on the left.

The Ontario Heritage Act Part 1V is also protecting:

• The Don Jail, 550 Gerrard Street Toronto
• Guelph Correctional Centre
•  Booth Barn on the CEF in Ottawa
• Ottawa Gaol, 75 Nicholas Street
• Maplelawn House and Gardens, 529 Richmond Road Ottawa
• the Isabel MacNeill Halfway House for Women---525 King Street West Kingston
• the Natural Resources Complex bounded by Booth, Rochester, Orangeville and Norman Streets in Ottawa.

  

  Buildings that are being preserved on the NRC campus.