The Demolition of The Don Jail

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  • Опубликовано: 1 янв 2025

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  • @jerryrigsit5400
    @jerryrigsit5400 4 года назад +13

    As a x-con this was a relaxing video...PDI is seriously well organized

  • @lornejonthehip4457
    @lornejonthehip4457 Месяц назад +1

    Was in there in the 90's
    Dang those beds.

  • @johnstancliff7328
    @johnstancliff7328 4 года назад +6

    what a job! that must have been really hard to do with all that concrete and steel!

  • @lathamarea1437
    @lathamarea1437 4 года назад +12

    would of liked to see the finished project..

  • @numbnutz9398
    @numbnutz9398 4 года назад +6

    Winter? I'm sitting here in Winnipeg and I haven't seen any winter in this video yet. Nice fall weather maybe😅

    • @JackReacheround
      @JackReacheround 9 месяцев назад

      It was like minus 40 that year

    • @numbnutz9398
      @numbnutz9398 9 месяцев назад

      @@JackReacheround great name BTW😄

  • @geo52041
    @geo52041 4 года назад +7

    I worked for Toronto Water and shut the water off for quite a few demo projects did in the city . Priestly is a real good company with good staff and family working for the company . And they work safe ,not like some of the other crazies out there ,that kill people bringing buildings down

    • @shaynedonnelly374
      @shaynedonnelly374 3 года назад

      So clearly you're lying because they're owned by GFL and the many many of the old employees left dye to the changes for the negative GFL made. Nice story though Walt Disney. Also they didn't demo any if the Don in the video just the Toronto jail lmao you really are clueless

  • @cartman4885
    @cartman4885 4 года назад +1

    Great video thanks...............

  • @playtimeisdone8490
    @playtimeisdone8490 11 месяцев назад

    Outstanding video!
    I really appreciated the thoughtfulness and planning applied to this job, prior to demolition. So many “lesser” demolition companies just want to smash and go, Priestly, obviously, is much more methodic and professional about the process, proving they were perfect for this project.

  • @timlake3081
    @timlake3081 4 года назад +9

    stopped there many times on my way to other ontario jails ,if only those walls could talk

    • @garyholt8315
      @garyholt8315 2 года назад +2

      isn't this the jail that had the last hangings in Canada?

  • @rburns531
    @rburns531 4 года назад +8

    You got to worry why anyone would give this a negative review???? Well done vid! Enjoyed it!

  • @patmcbride9853
    @patmcbride9853 4 года назад +18

    Those stainless steel toilet/sinks would be perfect for government housing, and those solid steel doors would sell out to drug dealers in no time.

    • @ddeleary1888
      @ddeleary1888 3 года назад +3

      The flush great but are cold as fuck flushing in the summertime hahahha. If ya know ya know🤣

    • @S_C_O_R_P_I_O_31
      @S_C_O_R_P_I_O_31 10 месяцев назад

      Make people in government housing feel even worse than they do already. Some people didn't grow up with a silver spoon or even three meals a day. I grew up in Regent Park. If there was no government housing my single mother would have been raising two kids on the street. Where did you grow up? NOT IN HOUSING THATS FOR SURE!!!

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 4 года назад +21

    Wow.....what a bloody dump......I was there in the '80s.....you had to be sure your blanket didn't touch the floor or the mice would get in your bed.....

  • @JD-sl5ry
    @JD-sl5ry Год назад

    I used to work at the jail. Sad to see it go down but it is definitely a building to be left in the past

    • @corycourneyea6802
      @corycourneyea6802 Год назад

      My aunt worked there for almost 30 years. Some of the stories were hilarious. Some weren't so much. She worked in receiving.

  • @Snuffaluffagis
    @Snuffaluffagis 4 года назад +4

    Another interesting video on Demolition. you folks do some real interesting jobs

  • @brandonbrouwer5535
    @brandonbrouwer5535 4 года назад +5

    Why do they keep saying they’re demolishing the don jail when it’s the Toronto jail they tore down? The don jail is left standing no?

    • @carmineredd1198
      @carmineredd1198 4 года назад

      they mean the additions. they are leaving the asbestos in the 1861 section

  • @jeffleblanc8850
    @jeffleblanc8850 4 года назад +2

    A lot of history ther that don jail I remember back in the day the don jail lots of guys I know went ther for a bit should go downtown and you could get a layout from some previous tenants lol

  • @marstondavis
    @marstondavis 4 года назад +3

    All that sadness and misery that was in that building. Now the neighborhood can be like any other neighborhood. Let the light and warmth and hopefulness flood in.

  • @HalifaxGreen
    @HalifaxGreen 4 года назад +4

    A guy says " You are now incarcerated " !!?? As a door slides closed in a cell in " Cell Block 3 "...……
    Not ONE of those people have ever done a SINGLE SOLITARY day of INCARCERATION in the old DON JAIL.
    This writer has been ( on several occasions ) an inmate in that particular jail. Grown men crying....Screams at night...Clanging of steel on steel.....and the ever present jingling of keys. Now THAT is actually being INCARCERATED !!! This video represents a major milestone in Canadian history and should be treated as such. Oh and HAPPY CANADA DAY 2020 !!! ( P.S. And if those walls could talk you would run for your lives)

    • @ConcretePicturesInc
      @ConcretePicturesInc  4 года назад +1

      Actually one of the workers from Priestly Demolition who was helping to tear down the Don Jail did do time there a few years before.

    • @geo52041
      @geo52041 4 года назад +1

      @@ConcretePicturesInc I worked with a guy at Toronto Water that did time there also when he was younger .. His mother would buy him a new pair a running shoes and the older prisoners would beat him up and steel his shoes every time . The he would have no shoes to wear .. bad place to be

  • @kdmq
    @kdmq 4 года назад +3

    Priestly uses so many regional strategies and "phase 1 phase 2 phase 3" you'd think they are reopening Ontario after COVID.

  • @ORGANIZEDCoNfUsioN
    @ORGANIZEDCoNfUsioN Месяц назад

    That was very cool.

  • @mzkeekos
    @mzkeekos 10 месяцев назад

    Just curious but is the place haunted now even though it has been replaced by the hennewick hospital?

  • @rodblair3705
    @rodblair3705 Год назад +1

    I did the old Milton Jail. 1854 and 1877. I have the door from the gallows for a coffee table. The building is now their Town Hall. It took us nine months to underpin the building. We were looking for the four men that were hanged with the Ontario Museum.

  • @summerwolf1414
    @summerwolf1414 3 года назад +1

    lota happy people seeing that hell hole go down

  • @mounfoutv6831
    @mounfoutv6831 3 года назад +1

    Probably the Hardest time

  • @ItsKenner
    @ItsKenner 4 года назад +3

    great vid

  • @MrJeep75
    @MrJeep75 4 года назад +3

    Nice job guys

  • @beautybyhammerllc
    @beautybyhammerllc 4 года назад +2

    Nice job !

  • @tinospaper2822
    @tinospaper2822 4 года назад +3

    Lol theres nothing loose for you to use weapons. If these guys only knew how many guys got beaten close to death, stabbed and faces sliced open in the don. We had a copper named bell that was selling razor blades and buck knifes to us in the early 2000s.

  • @------country-boy-------
    @------country-boy------- 4 года назад +1

    Priestly should have bought some houses on that street. They are worth a lot more now.

  • @summerwolf1414
    @summerwolf1414 3 года назад

    makes u think.............how much blood was spilled in that place

  • @hillbillyb4u
    @hillbillyb4u 4 года назад +2

    That 700 Volvo is sweet

  • @matthewholmgren8364
    @matthewholmgren8364 4 года назад

    Where’s the asbestos containment?

  • @pal4597
    @pal4597 2 года назад

    Cool video, maybe I’ll change careers. Lol

  • @JoeGrow-pj3nr
    @JoeGrow-pj3nr 3 года назад

    Day after day how about 5 months

  • @dmorse1000
    @dmorse1000 4 года назад +4

    This is called hunting for abatement extras! It's how that low bid becomes more tolerable.

    • @jamielacourse7578
      @jamielacourse7578 4 года назад

      They always called it " the new side"..... new in 1957 more like.....

  • @banjokazooie594
    @banjokazooie594 2 года назад

    Priestly? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA PRIESTLY!?!?! YEA THAT'LL DO. HAHAHAHA

  • @t.jjohnson6317
    @t.jjohnson6317 4 года назад +5

    I can see captain Blair Smyth crying over this demolition

  • @THESEASONE416
    @THESEASONE416 3 года назад

    you thought a building that old wouldn't have asbestos?

  • @kpdvw
    @kpdvw 4 года назад +4

    Dont like to go to jail? Then do not commit criminal acts you doofusses...! Good Demo Job!

    • @Turbo0666
      @Turbo0666 4 года назад +3

      not everyone in jai commit criminal act jail is for awaiting trial and minor crimes.

  • @rodpaget9796
    @rodpaget9796 11 месяцев назад

    These guys got the best job in the world.

  • @carmac1652
    @carmac1652 3 года назад

    Porly ventilated .?

  • @sylviaelse5086
    @sylviaelse5086 4 года назад +2

    Gotta knock it down before it becomes a heritage building too.

  • @cal28kim
    @cal28kim 4 года назад

    Report showing no signs of asbestos but unfortunately load's? So QUALITY of UK reports is JUST CONFUSED AS 🤣😂😅!!

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 4 года назад +1

    As a kid growing up in Ontario Housing the Don was home away from home.....and the hole? Forget about it......beancake for supper and crabs......

  • @markiobooker218
    @markiobooker218 Год назад

    Neato

  • @veryhightoday
    @veryhightoday 3 года назад

    DON jail not a fun place it stay did some time there back in the day.

  • @rodblair3705
    @rodblair3705 Год назад

    Andy you spent more than life in there. Is this why you retired.

  • @MrJeep75
    @MrJeep75 4 года назад +8

    Could of filled it with protestors

    • @richardcline1337
      @richardcline1337 4 года назад +6

      Fill it to overflowing with the fake BLM savages that are just looting, burning and killing just for kicks. Even that would be better than they deserve!

  • @steadholderharrington9035
    @steadholderharrington9035 4 года назад +2

    This should be shown to all those who spent time behind bars there. It would likely be Very cathartic for them no matter whether they were guilty or innocent. Time in such conditions should be considered criminal in its own way.

    • @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc
      @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc 4 года назад +3

      If they were guilty, fuck em!

    • @steadholderharrington9035
      @steadholderharrington9035 4 года назад

      @@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc And if they were innocent? Fuck em too?! 🤨

    • @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc
      @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc 4 года назад +1

      Steadholder Harrington no; I said guilty.

    • @HalifaxGreen
      @HalifaxGreen 4 года назад +1

      Thank You !!! The conditions were nothing short of inhumane !!! Shook me to my core

    • @HalifaxGreen
      @HalifaxGreen 4 года назад +1

      @@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc Try doing ONE FUCKING DAY in there !!! From the sound of it You wouldn't even be able to handle the intake process let alone being incarcerated !!

  • @TSquared2001
    @TSquared2001 4 года назад

    Wow

  • @garyortolano7374
    @garyortolano7374 4 года назад

    Poor video quality...hardly hi-def.Fail.

  • @gillesetien5915
    @gillesetien5915 2 года назад

    Trop de bla-bla inutiles.

  • @Ivansgarage
    @Ivansgarage 4 года назад +1

    Wow you guys really milked that job.... for all it was worth....