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City Hall Kingston City Hall is a large massive stone building sitting on the waterfront on Ontario Street. The building was original designed and built with the purpose of holding the first Parliment of Canada, but the site was changed in favour of Ottawa before it could be used. This writer is proud to tell you that up until recently he had access to the whole of City Hall at all times of the day and night. Recent security changes have made this now impossible. From the early 1960s I had cause to enter the building every week and most of the time it was more convinent to enter during the evening hours when only the Council meetings were being held. I can hosestly say that there are places in the building that make me feel very unusual. I never saw anything but I can tell you that I heard plenty. Disembodied voices of men and women, speaking loud enough for me to hear them but not loud enough to figure out what they were saying were common. Footsteps and doors opening and closing were also heard. The sound of furniture being moved around was heard occasionally. The building used to be heated by a very old hot water system and any of you that have lived or worked in a building with this kind of system will know that balancing the temperature is quite a trick. To counter this the caretaker always had the heat on to what I would call an excessivly warm setting. There were times I would walk into a cold spot so noticeable because of the heat that you could see your breath. Two feet either side of the cold spot would be hot as hell again. There was one spot I never got to spend much time but others who work in the area have told me some strange tales. This place was the old lock up in the basement. When the Kingston Police Force was first formed around 1845 they were housed in the west wing of the building facing the market square. They built a small jail in the basement with approximatly six cells. These six cells were found during the renovations of the building and are now maintained for posterity but not open to the public in general. They were rooms with solid limestone walls and massive wooden doors. Grafitti written by former prisoners can still be seen on the walls in the cells. The stories I have been told range from sounds coming from the cells to one man seeing the door to one of the cells open under its own power one day. I can not give you any more information than this unfortunatly on this area.
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