In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the FHF, we will be offering a luncheon tour of Bolt and Singer Castles in the Thousand Islands in conjunction with the Ontario Heritage Conference, being held May 31st-June 3rd 2012. Please book early to confirm your seats.
On Tuesday, April 10, FHF members and the public were invited to a special evening of history and architectural exploration. Peter Gower of the FHF and KMHC treated all in attendance to an informative presentation of the history of St. George’s Anglican Cathedral. After the presentation attendees were invited to explore the hidden parts of the building including the bell tower and the tomb of Lord Sydenham. A small power outage added challenge and atmosphere to the unique event.
Click the link below to see a copy of the 2012 FHF Speaker and Tour Series brochure.
The Frontenac Heritage Foundation is proud to announce that it will be co-hosting the next Ontario Heritage Conference in Kingston, 31 May t0 03 June, 2012. The theme of this year’s conference is “Beyond Borders: Heritage Best Practices.”
The OHC 2012 local committee is an ad hoc committee of the FHF. It is working diligently with Community Heritage Ontario CHO) and the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO), to ensure that this year’s conference will be a huge success!
Three streams of workshops will be offered: those geared towards heritage initiates, those tailored for delegates with moderate exposure to heritage issues, and those for professionals or lay experts. Tours of local highlights are being planned, and hotel rooms, at special delegates’ rates, have been set aside at the nearby, waterfront Marriot Hotel.
On Sunday 03 June, 2012, the FHF will also be offering, as part of its 40th Anniversary celebrations, a special “Two Castle Tour” of Boldt and Singer Castles, on the American Side of the Thousand Islands (please note that a passport is required). The tour is an all-day event being offered through Rockport Boatlines. For more details on the tour, click here.
For more details on the conference, and / or to register, visit the 2012 OHC website at: http://heritage2012.com/
The City of Kingston will argue its property standards case against CN Railway concerning the old outer station on Montreal Street in the new year. The two sides will square off in a Kingston courtroom on Jan. 11 and 12. The city wants the rail company to restore the decaying heritage structure which lost its roof in a fire.
CN recently installed a steel stabilizing structure to prevent the limestone walls from falling in.
From Kingston Whig Standard
by Floyd Patterson
A congenial face in a tall figure, Mayor Mark Gerretsen quickly rebooted to serious concern about CN treating Kingston’s railway heritage like landfill trash, when he spoke last week to a senior federal agency in Kingston, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
In Ontario, this board rarely meets outside Ottawa. To most it is faceless and mysterious doing its decision-making in camera, but chairman Dr. Richard Alway, commissioner Dr. Harold Kalman, secretary Dr. Larry Ostola, and three other board officials set up a hearing in Bellevue House on the objections to CN Rail’s controversial announcement it wants an Order In Council from Ottawa to let it demolish two thirds of the Grand Trunk station complex at 810 Montreal St.
The historic sites board, having designated the railway station, in its own 12-page report several years ago, as “… a critical facility in the history of railways in Canada,” may explain the unadvertised meeting in Kingston. Objectors were told by e-mail when and where to consult with the monuments board. >Before the meeting board officials toured the site.
Built in 1855, the Old Grand Trunk Railway Station on Montreal Street is a birthplace of Kingston’s “cultural history” to Mayor Gerretsen, but is a maintenance headache to its owner, CN. The company has refused to repair its roof after a 1996 fire, and now plans to rip down, and truck to the dump, the breezeway and the 1895 brick baggage building that are part of the designated heritage complex. It was the elegant administrative headquarters of the first mainline construction, Brockville to Oshawa leg, and linked us to our far-flung nation.
The Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act disallows demolition or structural changes of stations, but permission for emergency repairs can be given under the Act. CN used that to stabilize the walls of the limestone building with steel. It disposed of fire debris to landfill, covered the elegant windows and doors with paneling, and stored in a bin the Victorian brackets that had held up the mansard roof.
This work has left the historic Georgian building looking like a haunting skeleton Continue reading
The Frontenac Heritage Foundation proudly announces the publication of
“MARGARET ANGUS A Tribute”
Edited by Jennifer McKendry & Brian S. Osborne.
Reasonably priced at just $15!
Available at NOVEL IDEA, 156 Princess Street, Kingston. (Directions)
Or by mail order – S&H charges apply
(Online orders coming soon)
Perfect bound cover in colour, 72 pages, 6 x 9, 41 illustrations, ISBN 978-0-9685818-1-0.
The Directors of the Frontenac Heritage Foundation take great pride in publishing
this book of tributes to Dr Margaret Angus (1908-2008), one of the founders of
the Foundation, author of the Old Stones of Kingston and a pre-eminent heritage
advocate in the Kingston area. It is appropriate for current and future
generations of heritage enthusiasts to know of the enormous contribution she
made to the recording and understanding of Kingston’s lengthy history and its
architectural legacy. The publication of these fifteen essays assists in this regard.
Authors include: Andrew Hill, President, Frontenac Heritage Foundation; Brian S. Osborne, Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University; Michelle Jean, Governor General of Canada; The Hon. Peter Milliken MP; The Hon. John Gerrestsen, MPP; Harvey Rosen, Mayor; J.A. Euringer, Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University; Janet M. Brooke, Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre; Edward Grenda, Kingston Historical Society; George Muirhead, Frontenac Heritage Foundation; James A. Low, Museum of Health Care, Kingston General Hospital; Bruce Downey, architect; Carol White, teacher; Elizabeth Morgan, Granddaughter; Jennifer McKendry, Architectural Historian.
© 2012 - Frontenac Heritage Foundation
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