Awesome tour. I love how you describe what you are seeing. I am totally blind, so any auditory description helps a lot. As someone who is blind,and interested in urban exploration, your channel is a great resource. :) Thank you.
Chad King. I absolutely love the fact that u are so pleased with how great it is described in detail so that someone like yourself who is blind can truly understand what is going on. That makes me happy for you!! Take care hun. 😉👍🇨🇦
Chad King I am Blind also, no need to be sorry… These are the cards I was dealt, deal with it and life goes on… I also loved the commentary and the feelings that I received by listening to you describe and the silence of the building was amazing! My grandmother lived in Kingston and as a child we would drive past the pen looking up at the guards, I always wanted to tour it… Hoping to get there one day to experience the Energy held within the walls… Thank you for the tour❤️❤️❤️
Awesome video tour!! I subscribed to ur channel tonight. I actually live about 3 hrs away from the KING PEN....U did a wonderful job walking around explaining the prison set up. I am an old soul & ABSOLUTELY LOVE & AM FASCINATED WITH HISTORY. I'm off to binge watch more of ur videos. Thanks again. Tammy🇨🇦
Thanks for this tour. My uncle worked there for many years before it shut down. He has never talked about working as a guard there, or any of the prisoners. Watching this tour has helped enlighten me of what his job might have been like while he was working there.
@@paulshort6028 i worked there for a few years until I went to other jails. I am far from cruel. Every inmate is your enemy. They think nothing of shanking one of us.
Very interesting to see where my little brother (late) was sent early 60s when he was a mere 15 yrs old...We went to visit him there once with my younger brother in 1967...pathetic...still remember those huge keys and that massive front door!
Excellent tour Pam!! Your narration and information was awesome!! Appeared to be a clean & well maintained facility. Wow, those tiny cells are unnerving to me. It's a mystery to me why people commit crimes to spend the rest of their time in those places. Enjoyed your tour & thanks for sharing!!:)
A very thorough video. The next best thing to actually being on the tour. I live just 50 miles from Kingston and, despite my best efforts, could NOT get tickets for this year's extensive series of tours. Believe me, nobody wants to see this slice of history up close more than I do. However, your video is a nice substitute. Pete Fodey
I did the extended tour of Kingston Pen today and highly recommend it to anyone interested in its history.What made the tour of extreme interest was the fact that it has actual retired guards there to tell you the stories and explain the facts including a past Warden. The smashed bell Tiki spoke of is in the museum across the street, the museum is free and a must see. I'll be doing the tour again next spring for sure! I recommend you do your research and ask hard questions. I peered in Bernardo's cell and didn't even know it.
I went there in the summer I loved it! the creepiest place at least for me was the yard! After the guide stopped talking there was a good 10-15 seconds of absolute silence..not traffic not even a bird chirping or flying by All I could think was open or closed I would hate being there at night..I'm not psychic or clairvoyant but it was just eerie!
contestor7 definitely going there one day… Did they leave in place the inmates belongings? Thank you for the heads up on guards and warden being there to ask questions… They should re-create another bell for tourists to hear what it sounded like when going off
I'm always amazed at how many abandoned places you find.. I love when you look through drawers and papers. I never know what your going to find! I love it!! Xoxo
So happy to have seen this video. For anyone who has read "Roger Caron Go Boy" and his other novel "Bingo" Which is another word for riot, so the guards don't know what they are talking about. And that big bell in the dome that the prisoners hated so much you can learn about it in "Bingo" The bell was one of the first things they destroyed but the ball in the center of the bell was taken by prisoners for a trophy or keepsake. I believe that it was Roger Caron who kept it.
Well done video, it almost looked like a documentary seen on TV! The confinement, and constant monitoring by guards gives one an idea of how someone has no freedom in this place.
Look past the architecture and understand the human suffering of the woman children and men who committed suicide there or were driven insane by the inhumanity
Yay, another Tiki video! Love your work, glad to hear it cannot be demolished. I really can't help but feel so bad about abandoned buildings, esp. for the memories they hold that can't be explained...not that a prison is full of great memories, but you know what I mean. Thanks for entertaining this NW Iowa farm wife and mom :)
I agree, very beautiful architecture. even though it may end up being used for something else, at least the building won't be torn down. great tour, thank you for sharing.
76southernpride, as I'm reading comments I'm given the distinct impression that no one's mind is on the families of men & women who served time in this prison. Many of us have good reason for wanting this historical place of deserved confinement demolished. Sure, we understand the impressive structure which everyone admires. But it's presence is a painful reminder to many of us.
awesome tour tiki. There is a prison near me, Chester County Prison which is still used but the building also dates way back. Problem is you can get near it to get a good picture. When I was reading you description, when you said b/c it an Heritage site, it can not be demolished is sometime the US needs to do.
Thanks, Steve. Yeah, that is one good thing about the heritage protection laws. That's too bad about the prison near you. Even with this one, before they closed, all you could really see were the walls surrounding it. It was nice to be able to see what the actual buildings inside those walls look like now.
This was interesting. I had read a novel about Grace Marks, this past summer, and she had been incarcerated here . . . although, I suppose, the prison's interior has changed drastically over the years. Thanks for the tour and the narration. . . well done as always!
I agree. I hope they keep the place open to tourists. I've always hated it when they close a place up and then just forget about it. They've done that to way too many places. They just deteriorate and vandals come in and just demolish the place. I've always hated that.
I think it was a pretty cool tour. Cool for many reasons ,but most of all is considering how soon after closing . I would have liked to have seen inside every building but all in all , it was very informative. Would be interesring to hear an inmate who served there share some insight . If those walls could talk.....you done a good job tho
You would enjoy looking through Tasmania's old Convict ruins and the penal settlement at places like Port Arthur and Richmond Village! Tasmania only has one operating prison called Risdon. Otherwise Tasmania has arrays of beautiful old Victorian and Edwardian designs to look at. You would LOVE exploring this island...
I haven't seen a new video from you in a long time, and I hope you're doing well. If you're done making videos for whatever reason I hope it was your decision and not due to an accident or harassment. So best wishes, and I hope you're doing well.
Great video. Very informative. I am fascinated by prison's especially ALCATRAZ, Kingston Penitentiary and Kingston's Prison for Women (wish they had opened it up for tours once it closed). Hope they do at some point. Still yet to visit any of these facilities but definitely on my bucket list. Want to do the overnight stay at ALCATRAZ. They should offer it at Kingston Penitentiary.
I always thought Olson was in jail out in BC and not here in Ontario. As for the future, I hope they don't turn it into condos. Something like this does NOT belong in the hands of a greedy developer.
He was at KP until Dec. 6, 1992 when Olson was moved to the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. He said his new prison was "like a five-star hotel compared to the rat hole of Kingston Pen."
Did time at KP from 1995 until 2000. Before that I did 4 years at the Prince Albert Special Handling Unit in Saskatchewan. Olson was also there at that time. For a couple of years l cleaned all the ranges there and passed by Olson's protective custody cell almost every day.The cells at the SHU were more comfortable indeed, about twice as big as the once at KP. Olson had a little typewriter in his cell which used for writing grievances of all sorts about anything anywhere possible. One time he also sent his poetry to a poetry competition somewhere in Canada, but the judges there sent it back to him because of Olson's past.
Hi Pam I took the same tour on Oct.17 and tried to get as many picture as I could. You did a very good job of video taping the inside but I do have one question? How do you know where Paul Bernardo was held? The prison was not telling anyone were he was and the cell yu showed was a seg. cell but not meant to keep people in all the toime I think that info is wrong He was in the wing just before the seg. cells with the glass in front of the cells. You do not have a picture of it on this video. But no matter what You did a great job !!
Thanks! Our tour guide told us that was his cell. People were lined up to take photos of it while she waited. She was quite clear about it and seemed to know her stuff. But if they weren't telling you where he was, how do you know he was in the wing before the seg cells? That is the only segregation unit she took us into and said that since they only spent 23 hours per day in there, that's why they were larger. So if a tour guide told you something different from ours, who knows who gave the right information.
I mean this as politely as possible but you kind of sound like Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek - also, thank you for the tour! Watched for a school project!
The old BC pen in New West is all condo's now and very little is left of the old place. I hope they keep this prison since it's the oldest one in Canada, and is part of Canada's history. The other prison I would save is Stony Mountain in Manitoba. Very old as well.
FANTASTIC!!! I have been to Kingston but just never thought to do this. The architecture is protected which is wonderful! Thank you so much. It was an eye opener for me.
I assume that lists of inmates from the early '60's would be unattainable to the general public. All lists of former inmates would've been destroyed long ago. Am I correct?
How can you love a place that tortured so many women children and men this is a hell in earth. Thousands of suicides and countless abuse of poor people
A more famous inmate was The BC Pen's Bill Minor, known as "The Grey Fox", Canada's only train robber, who, back in late 1800s would play both sides of US-Canada border. And yes, there's a movie 'bout 'im.
I read about this in the news, all the worst criminals in canada were locked up there, rapists, serialkillers ,before they shut it down and relocated the inmates somewhere else. I would love to go on one of those guided tours. great video! I wonder what form of activity will be going on in there in the future when they are not allowed to knock the buildings down. its a lot of unused space. if I ran the city of kingston I would make it a home/shelter for the homeless.
There is a motel is Cobourg, Ontario that use to be a jail, it has the bars and everything on the windows. Got me thinking wouldn't this make a pretty neat place to stay, creepy but neat. Perhaps it's just me.. Very nice video.
Thank you for this tour, you done did good. I am in agreement with you on the architecture, it is quite interesting. Was it completely empty of people while you were on tour, and the inmates where in a separate location, Or absolutely human free?
This was done about 5 years ago.It was newly closed.She said it was only a bit more than a month several times in the video.The inmates had all been relocated by then.I think people were there because there were quite a few cars in the parking lot,just no prisoners.
***** hi tikitrex where is this prison located anyway i have got to see this place? by the way you should come to cornwall and checkout our jail it,s extremely old opened up in the 1800s and closed in 2002 i never seen the inside of the place but would love to your videos rock tiki just like you and watching your videos always makes me happy :>
Thank you, Pam, for this up-close-and-personal tour, even though you had strict rules to follow, as an innocent visitor. The atmosphere wreaked with harsh control. Even the air they breathed was monitored as to temperature. Rules every where... for "safety" sake. Amazing that some people live their life full of self-imposed rules, restrictions; guarding this and that to protect their feelings and ego. Let's celebrate fresh air freedom- giving grace to ourself and others. Let's break the chains that imprison our mind's harsh rules and reg's, and live a life of fresh-air love. Ah... happy hugs all around. Glad we are un-shackled and on the outside of those stone walls you video'd, Pam. Makes me appreciate you all the more for showing us the contrasts. :) - Tom
You guys know nothing about the true inside riot .. Things that happened in here didnt get broadcasted on the news I personally know what truly happened inside
***** Having taken this tour, how do you know that cell 4 in the Seg Unit was Bernardo's? Numerous people asked on our tour and apparently it was forbidden to say which inmate occupied which cell. But you did a great job in this video. Something I will always remember.
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Awesome tour. I love how you describe what you are seeing. I am totally blind, so any auditory description helps a lot. As someone who is blind,and interested in urban exploration, your channel is a great resource. :) Thank you.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm glad that my descriptions are helpful to you. Thanks for the comment, Chad!
TikiTrex why would you feel sorry for them I'm sure they don't feel sorry for themselves prob lead a better life then you
Chad King. I absolutely love the fact that u are so pleased with how great it is described in detail so that someone like yourself who is blind can truly understand what is going on. That makes me happy for you!! Take care hun. 😉👍🇨🇦
Chad King I am Blind also, no need to be sorry… These are the cards I was dealt, deal with it and life goes on… I also loved the commentary and the feelings that I received by listening to you describe and the silence of the building was amazing! My grandmother lived in Kingston and as a child we would drive past the pen looking up at the guards, I always wanted to tour it… Hoping to get there one day to experience the Energy held within the walls… Thank you for the tour❤️❤️❤️
Awesome video tour!! I subscribed to ur channel tonight. I actually live about 3 hrs away from the KING PEN....U did a wonderful job walking around explaining the prison set up. I am an old soul & ABSOLUTELY LOVE & AM FASCINATED WITH HISTORY. I'm off to binge watch more of ur videos. Thanks again. Tammy🇨🇦
Excellent video. Always wanted to see the inside. Thx for that u have a good radio voice by the way..
Pam: Another great one! My grandfather was a stone - mason in Canada - he would have loved the stone masonry; The warden's house is beautiful.
I live in Kingston and I hope they open this up for tours on a full time basis. Absolutely fascinating stuff!
The torture chamber should be torn down nothing but misery came from this hell on earth
I live in Kingston NY which Kingston is this located
@@shaunmulsay9722 Hi Shaun, this is in Kingston Ontario Canada
its open now for the public...
Great tour! I have always wanted to tour a decommissioned prison so thanks for the visit! Great narration as usual.
Thanks as always, Theresa!
your Voice is soothing, I could listen to u all day
Great video! I'm a fellow Canadian from Montreal who now lives in Florida.
Keep up the good work
Thank you, Mario! Enjoy the Florida weather!
Never thought I would ever say a prison was beautiful lol. The architecture is amazing.
What's beautiful about a place that makes people commit suicide . Tortures the mentally ill
Thanks for this tour. My uncle worked there for many years before it shut down. He has never talked about working as a guard there, or any of the prisoners. Watching this tour has helped enlighten me of what his job might have been like while he was working there.
the screws that worked there were inhuman and cruel l don't know how any man can look in the mirror after causing so my pain to a fellow human being
@@paulshort6028 this place seems far too harsh, you're right. Adding corrupt CO's on top of it must be a brutal time for prisoners.
@@paulshort6028 i worked there for a few years until I went to other jails. I am far from cruel. Every inmate is your enemy. They think nothing of shanking one of us.
Very interesting to see where my little brother (late) was sent early 60s when he was a mere 15 yrs old...We went to visit him there once with my younger brother in 1967...pathetic...still remember those huge keys and that massive front door!
Man sorry U had to go through that
Excellent tour Pam!! Your narration and information was awesome!! Appeared to be a clean & well maintained facility. Wow, those tiny cells are unnerving to me. It's a mystery to me why people commit crimes to spend the rest of their time in those places. Enjoyed your tour & thanks for sharing!!:)
I couldn't believe how small they were, either! Thanks, Teala!
You ever hear of poverty or mental disability no human deserved to live in hell
A very thorough video. The next best thing to actually being on the tour. I live just 50 miles from Kingston and, despite my best efforts, could NOT get tickets for this year's extensive series of tours. Believe me, nobody wants to see this slice of history up close more than I do. However, your video is a nice substitute.
Pete Fodey
I did the extended tour of Kingston Pen today and highly recommend it to anyone interested in its history.What made the tour of extreme interest was the fact that it has actual retired guards there to tell you the stories and explain the facts including a past Warden. The smashed bell Tiki spoke of is in the museum across the street, the museum is free and a must see. I'll be doing the tour again next spring for sure! I recommend you do your research and ask hard questions. I peered in Bernardo's cell and didn't even know it.
I went there in the summer
I loved it!
the creepiest place at least for me was the yard! After the guide stopped talking there was a good 10-15 seconds of absolute silence..not traffic not even a bird chirping or flying by
All I could think was open or closed I would hate being there at night..I'm not psychic or clairvoyant but it was just eerie!
contestor7 definitely going there one day… Did they leave in place the inmates belongings? Thank you for the heads up on guards and warden being there to ask questions… They should re-create another bell for tourists to hear what it sounded like when going off
Great video... Thank You for sharing this, I want to take this tour but cant get tickets, Hope they do more tours next year.
This was so good Tiki! Happy thanksgiving my friend!
Thank you, Christielynn! We celebrate our Thanksgiving in October here in Canada, but a Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I'm always amazed at how many abandoned places you find.. I love when you look through drawers and papers. I never know what your going to find! I love it!! Xoxo
Thank you for this tour! Really appreciate it!
The architecture of this place is amazing!
I would have loved to go on this tour. I've been to the little prison in Goderich for a tour but it has nothing on Kingston. Cool vids..subbed!
I remember visiting my dad there, it's so strange to see the visiting room.
We were allowed to sit outside on picnic benches
I hope your dad was able to cope after Living in such a hell
Very enjoyable. Thanks, Tiki, for another fab vid.
Glad you enjoyed!
So happy to have seen this video. For anyone who has read "Roger Caron Go Boy" and his other novel "Bingo" Which is another word for riot, so the guards don't know what they are talking about. And that big bell in the dome that the prisoners hated so much you can learn about it in "Bingo" The bell was one of the first things they destroyed but the ball in the center of the bell was taken by prisoners for a trophy or keepsake. I believe that it was Roger Caron who kept it.
Fantastic work Tiki, If you ever get the chance, you should come see the PA, state prison. Al Capone was an inmate there and it is open for tours.
Great tour, prisons here in England rarely close down, so its interesting to see inside one of them without breaking the law !
Well done video, it almost looked like a documentary seen on TV! The confinement, and constant monitoring by guards gives one an idea of how someone has no freedom in this place.
I appreciate that. Thanks!
Awesome video. Always wondered what it looked like inside. I'm glad I'm not the only one who appreciates the architecture of these places.
Look past the architecture and understand the human suffering of the woman children and men who committed suicide there or were driven insane by the inhumanity
Thanks. I enjoy your calm thoughtful voice.
I was here in 2002 for 2 weeks in the TD unit on a parole violation. I was 22 years old. Very intimidating and a very scary place.
It is scary. My son's poppy was there for whatever and it still haunts me from what I know yet never experienced myself .
Great to "see" inside one of these old places. Kinda looks like what you see in the movies...
This was cool! The buildings have beautifully built, and your commentary is informative. Be interesting what will happen to this old prison.
Thanks, Mark. I agree, should be interesting to see what is in store for it.
Once again a great tour Tiki. I plan to visit there next time I'm anywhere near Kingston.
Great job Pam Once Again, You should be a tour guide..Beautiful buildings, and Glad they Arnt tearing them down..Thanks for the tour..
Yay, another Tiki video! Love your work, glad to hear it cannot be demolished. I really can't help but feel so bad about abandoned buildings, esp. for the memories they hold that can't be explained...not that a prison is full of great memories, but you know what I mean. Thanks for entertaining this NW Iowa farm wife and mom :)
It's my pleasure! I'm glad you find my videos entertaining :)
Who knew a prison could be so beautiful!
Good Job Well done. I always wondered what Kingston Pen. looked like on the inside.
Great video,always love those prison tours
I met somebody in 1983 who ended up getting imprisoned here. He went down the wrong path and took his own life there sadly. RIP buddy. :(
Thank you very much for the fabulous tour!
You're most welcome! Thanks for watching!
Good tour,thank you. I am sure though that as a prisoner one would not admire the architecture as much as you did.:)
This place was hell on earth for children woman and men who were either poor or were born with mental disabilities nothing nice about this shit hole
Very Informative and interesting, Your channel is excellent. Thanks. I love your accent :-)
I agree, very beautiful architecture. even though it may end up being used for something else, at least the building won't be torn down. great tour, thank you for sharing.
Yeah, that is the fortunate thing. Thanks for watching!
76southernpride, as I'm reading comments I'm given the distinct impression that no one's mind is on the families of men & women who served time in this prison. Many of us have good reason for wanting this historical place of deserved confinement demolished. Sure, we understand the impressive structure which everyone admires. But it's presence is a painful reminder to many of us.
I was in Kinston for about 3 months it had reception at the time it was a scary place
Your voice is absolutely angelic.
Thanks
Excellent report,I'd love to spend the day exploring this building ;-)
Very intresting tour!
Really cool video. Keep em coming.
Done very well. I got a real feel of their prison life.
Awesome footage!!!!!! Thank you for sharing this video on youtube!!!!
awesome tour tiki. There is a prison near me, Chester County Prison which is still used but the building also dates way back. Problem is you can get near it to get a good picture. When I was reading you description, when you said b/c it an Heritage site, it can not be demolished is sometime the US needs to do.
Thanks, Steve. Yeah, that is one good thing about the heritage protection laws. That's too bad about the prison near you. Even with this one, before they closed, all you could really see were the walls surrounding it. It was nice to be able to see what the actual buildings inside those walls look like now.
***** i like that that very much tiki.
This was interesting. I had read a novel about Grace Marks, this past summer, and she had been incarcerated here . . . although, I suppose, the prison's interior has changed drastically over the years. Thanks for the tour and the narration. . . well done as always!
Wow that's some very interesting Information you've told us! Great job as always! That prison room 4 thing was creepy.
great tour
I agree. I hope they keep the place open to tourists. I've always hated it when they close a place up and then just forget about it. They've done that to way too many places. They just deteriorate and vandals come in and just demolish the place. I've always hated that.
The vandals are usually rats mice and raccoons lol
I think it was a pretty cool tour. Cool for many reasons ,but most of all is considering how soon after closing .
I would have liked to have seen inside every building but all in all , it was very informative.
Would be interesring to hear an inmate who served there share some insight .
If those walls could talk.....you done a good job tho
You would enjoy looking through Tasmania's old Convict ruins and the penal settlement at places like Port Arthur and Richmond Village! Tasmania only has one operating prison called Risdon. Otherwise Tasmania has arrays of beautiful old Victorian and Edwardian designs to look at. You would LOVE exploring this island...
Excellent narration
Great video!
Great tour of wonderful buildings with lots of history. Thanks!
I haven't seen a new video from you in a long time, and I hope you're doing well. If you're done making videos for whatever reason I hope it was your decision and not due to an accident or harassment.
So best wishes, and I hope you're doing well.
Smiling,very imformative and interesting.Thank you! i enjoyed! and you have a very good voice .~Jeannine
Thank you for the compliment and nice feedback, Jeannine! I'm glad you enjoyed! :)
Great video. Well detailed and one of a kind footage!
Great video. Very informative. I am fascinated by prison's especially ALCATRAZ, Kingston Penitentiary and Kingston's Prison for Women (wish they had opened it up for tours once it closed). Hope they do at some point. Still yet to visit any of these facilities but definitely on my bucket list. Want to do the overnight stay at ALCATRAZ. They should offer it at Kingston Penitentiary.
Did the Murdoch mysteries film there
Thank You for posting this, awesome work, :)
Nothing awesome about a torture chamber built to house women children and men who were either poor or were born with mental disabilities
very we'll done. I have seen many of your videos and have enjoyed them all. Thank you.
Thank you, Patty! I'm glad you enjoy them.
Another excellent job-thank you. :)
Very interesting, very informative. Job well done as usual
Thank you!
Very well done.
I always thought Olson was in jail out in BC and not here in Ontario.
As for the future, I hope they don't turn it into condos. Something like this does NOT belong in the hands of a greedy developer.
He was at KP until Dec. 6, 1992 when Olson was moved to the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. He said his new prison was "like a five-star hotel compared to the rat hole of Kingston Pen."
i think it would make great senior homes, small business office space, small hotel[history aspect] and mall all rolled up into one.
Did time at KP from 1995 until 2000. Before that
I did 4 years at the Prince Albert Special Handling Unit in Saskatchewan. Olson was also there at that time. For a couple of years l cleaned all the ranges there and passed by Olson's protective custody cell almost every day.The cells at the SHU were more comfortable indeed, about twice as big as the once at KP.
Olson had a little typewriter in his cell which used for writing grievances of all sorts about anything anywhere possible. One time he also sent his poetry to a poetry competition somewhere in Canada, but the judges there sent it back to him because of Olson's past.
Olson was transferred East, given, I believe, inmate animosity.
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Hi Pam
I took the same tour on Oct.17 and tried to get as many picture as I could. You did a very good job of video taping the inside but I do have one question? How do you know where Paul Bernardo was held? The prison was not telling anyone were he was and the cell yu showed was a seg. cell but not meant to keep people in all the toime I think that info is wrong He was in the wing just before the seg. cells with the glass in front of the cells. You do not have a picture of it on this video. But no matter what You did a great job !!
Thanks! Our tour guide told us that was his cell. People were lined up to take photos of it while she waited. She was quite clear about it and seemed to know her stuff. But if they weren't telling you where he was, how do you know he was in the wing before the seg cells? That is the only segregation unit she took us into and said that since they only spent 23 hours per day in there, that's why they were larger. So if a tour guide told you something different from ours, who knows who gave the right information.
i realy like yours videos...thanks ...
wow, just wow....this was so awesome
Thank you as always!
You have the most pleasant voice!
Thank you!
Love what you do keep it up
I appreciate that. Thanks!
it is ok you are very cool
Great job! Love your work!
+Themightymoze Thanks!
@tikitrex have u ever been to Staten Island New York? Would love to meet u
I mean this as politely as possible but you kind of sound like Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek - also, thank you for the tour! Watched for a school project!
I love how u describe things
The old BC pen in New West is all condo's now and very little is left of the old place. I hope they keep this prison since it's the oldest one in Canada, and is part of Canada's history. The other prison I would save is Stony Mountain in Manitoba. Very old as well.
FANTASTIC!!! I have been to Kingston but just never thought to do this. The architecture is protected which is wonderful! Thank you so much. It was an eye opener for me.
Very interesting place. Great video.
Thank you!
I assume that lists of inmates from the early '60's would be unattainable to the general public. All lists of former inmates would've been destroyed long ago. Am I correct?
I've always been curious as to what correctional facilities looked like inside (aside from being convicted haha)! love this!
How can you love a place that tortured so many women children and men this is a hell in earth. Thousands of suicides and countless abuse of poor people
Never mind what he says. It's unfortunate how they had to do their time but how can one not be curious to see a world most will never know
very interesting video ty, I was wondering where did all the inmates move to? That building is in such good condition to have been shut down.
Thanks. They were moved to other various institutions.
Great video by the way, much better than our tour guide.
Thanks!
Nice to see the cell where paul bernardo stayed. When he was at kingston pen.
Not very cozy i have to say.
Tikitrex have u ever come to Staten Island New York? Would love to meet u
Very cool Architecture - Even Canada has "Evil People". I am glad it is a historic building that can not be taken down. Well done tour & video.
Thank you! Yes, it is hard to believe, lol.
another interesting fact is "The 'Black' Donnelly's" are from Ontario. The book is a MUST read
A more famous inmate was The BC Pen's Bill Minor, known as "The Grey Fox", Canada's only train robber, who, back in late 1800s would play both sides of US-Canada border. And yes, there's a movie 'bout 'im.
I read about this in the news, all the worst criminals in canada were locked up there, rapists, serialkillers ,before they shut it down and relocated the inmates somewhere else. I would love to go on one of those guided tours. great video! I wonder what form of activity will be going on in there in the future when they are not allowed to knock the buildings down. its a lot of unused space. if I ran the city of kingston I would make it a home/shelter for the homeless.
The irony of prisoners building their own walls
One of my uncles used to work there but im not sure what department he was in. worked there right up until they closed.
Very informative narration,,,,,Thank you for making it so interesting and enjoyable….
I appreciate that! Thank you for watching and commenting!
There is a motel is Cobourg, Ontario that use to be a jail, it has the bars and everything on the windows. Got me thinking wouldn't this make a pretty neat place to stay, creepy but neat. Perhaps it's just me..
Very nice video.
Thank you for this tour, you done did good. I am in agreement with you on the architecture, it is quite interesting. Was it completely empty of people while you were on tour, and the inmates where in a separate location, Or absolutely human free?
No inmates at all and different group tours going in and out
This was done about 5 years ago.It was newly closed.She said it was only a bit more than a month several times in the video.The inmates had all been relocated by then.I think people were there because there were quite a few cars in the parking lot,just no prisoners.
GREAT VIDEO.. TKS FOR THE UPLOAD!! :)
Thanks for watching! :)
***** hi tikitrex where is this prison located anyway i have got to see this place? by the way you should come to cornwall and checkout our jail it,s extremely old opened up in the 1800s and closed in 2002 i never seen the inside of the place but would love to your videos rock tiki just like you and watching your videos always makes me happy :>
christopher coleman lol Kingston Pen is in Kingston!
***** Kingston is full of prison's.. Fucked up cuz its a small ass city..! All about war and prisoners in the old days there.!!
Definitely brings back some memories
Thank you, Pam, for this up-close-and-personal tour, even though you had strict rules to follow, as an innocent visitor. The atmosphere wreaked with harsh control. Even the air they breathed was monitored as to temperature. Rules every where... for "safety" sake. Amazing that some people live their life full of self-imposed rules, restrictions; guarding this and that to protect their feelings and ego. Let's celebrate fresh air freedom- giving grace to ourself and others. Let's break the chains that imprison our mind's harsh rules and reg's, and live a life of fresh-air love. Ah... happy hugs all around. Glad we are un-shackled and on the outside of those stone walls you video'd, Pam. Makes me appreciate you all the more for showing us the contrasts. :) - Tom
Thanks, Tom. :) It sure does make one appreciate life as we know it on the outside of those walls.
Those rules are part of the punishment of criminals.
I was a soldier sent to the riot in 1971, it wasn't pretty.
Inara Shiraz what do u think a riot is
You guys know nothing about the true inside riot ..
Things that happened in here didnt get broadcasted on the news
I personally know what truly happened inside
@Inara Shiraz cause they were treated like absolute garbage
So they took over the building to get human rights back to the inmates
@@nomadicmind1570 who the fuck gives a shit about human garbage rights??
Very interesting tour. Was that Bernardo's cell just prior to the prison closing ?
Thanks. Yes, he was in there right up until the closure date.
***** Having taken this tour, how do you know that cell 4 in the Seg Unit was Bernardo's? Numerous people asked on our tour and apparently it was forbidden to say which inmate occupied which cell. But you did a great job in this video. Something I will always remember.
Good video.
Thanks