The other day my friend Katherine Taylor (AKA One Gal’s Toronto, author of the terrific Toronto: City of Commerce 1800-1960) showed me her stunning photos of shipwrecks around Garden Island, Ontario, one of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River, south of Kingston and northwest of Wolfe Island. Now I’m feeling like I deserve …
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Canada’s Penitentiary Museum and Kingston Penitentiary
For five years in the early ’90s I lived in Kingston, Ontario, and must have gone by Kingston Penitentiary hundreds of times. It was a fully functioning maximum security prison for men then, housing many of Canada’s most dangerous criminals, including sex offenders. This was a forbidding place to look on with dread and pass …