Kingston Penitentiary

If I can do it, you can do it.

I went into Kingston Penitentiary.

That was maximum security.

It's such a terrible place, they've closed it now.

You could peel the limestone off and there'd still be like a concrete building standing there.

Unfortunately, unlike Kingston Penitentiary, there's really not a lot of heritage value on the inside.

Some may disagree, but there isn't any brick or limestone or interesting architectural features other than the prison cells.

And it's really in quite poor condition inside.

Obviously, we're just coming off a really robust, healthy summer of tourism, and we're seeing a healthy fall.

But it's that winter months where there's, you know, community focus.

And one of our flagship assets within our tourism portfolio obviously is Kingston Penitentiary and the penitentiary museum, Dave St. Onge from that museum is here tonight.

And so within that particular geography, we also do a lot of filming at Kingston Penitentiary.

And that was the one thing that they, they would attract to.

'Cause I've always heard like, uh, even, even at the Kingston Penitentiary, when women go through, they get their hair pulled.

And it's, and it's fascinating.

So it's just-

Yeah.

Sher and I went on a tour of the Kingston Pen the other day.

Oh, you did? Okay.

The old Kingston Pen.

And she was just, like, blown away.

She says...

Think about what a camera does.

A camera can show you the stone walls of the Kingston Penitentiary.

It can show you the exact layout of the Kinnear farmhouse.

It creates a feeling of objective reality.