Exploring an Abandoned 19th Century Jail & Courthouse Pre-Confederation | Pre-Confederation Prison

hey guys welcome to today's adventure my first adventure of the year and i'm in an abandoned jail and uh courthouse it's a very old historic building with a really old jail really small jail cells i'll give you guys some history as i as i explore i'll do a voiceover with some history but all i'm going to do is just walk through and i'm just going to talk you guys through what i'm seeing i'm in here for the very first time i just got here so uh this is going to be pretty cool pretty exciting place i plan to be here for quite some time so i'm going to get my gear so in the meantime let's get my music and my intro going and i'll see you guys back after the intro [Music] [Applause] [Music] this old abandoned jail and courthouse sits in a city of about 21 000 people in ontario canada the city took over ownership from the county in the 1960s when the original court was moved into a new building it has since been used as offices and artist studios but has since sat empty since 2014. the jail was built in 1866 this pre-confederation courthouse in jail was originally on two separate parcels of land and are only zoned for institutional use the jail was closed in 2011 in favor of a newer more modern corrections center not far from this location thanks to the individual who made this explorer possible now sit back and let's enjoy the tour okay guys where i am right now i'm at the uh i'm at the back end of the prison and we've got the uh you got the the yard here where the inmates can hang out and play around so there's really nothing to see it's the really high wall a little uh just to pan around here so you can see it okay so going this way you go right into a shower and stall so this is more of a range where they they all have their cells and then they use the bathroom when they need to so you get a sign that says do not flush before 7 a.m after washing throw soap and toilet under sink oh wipe sick respect so there's your toilet right there guys and there's your shower i'm gonna go through here and here's the table [Music] down through you can see there there you go there's a table and then we'll come through and we'll see some of these jail cells and see how small they are but these are tiny this is really small and i think i see that there would have been a bed inside there if you look i can see on the floor there's marks where the bed would have been so these cells are literally like what's that like three feet across just the size of a bed hopefully i'll find some that still have a bed in them but uh this is a super old style jail okay guys so here we're going to go outside and check out the yard and so let me get out here as i turn around you guys can see that this yard is uh a little bit more secure you've got fences and you've got more bars so let's see if i can get in here and uh so there's multiple yards all fenced off likely for the different types of inmates so there's another yard over there and then this is likely a small one here and then there's a larger yard there with uh with a pavilion so let's get back inside okay okay so i'll keep on going through here checking this place out there's a painted sign ontario ministry of corrections services 1984. and here we got another another range here so here's this actually looks like a drunk tank put this down here so you can see it there you go yeah so this looks like the drunk tank here's your toilet and sink over here another cell a little bit bigger we got a bed there toilet and then another one here on the wall we got some writing on the wall here common 2011 last one in the hole so what's this is this the hole i guess okay and then this is back over here and that's back outside where i was when i first started so let's go back up this way and see what else we got this way and this is just a bathroom and this is probably another yard so we're not going to bother going back there let's go back here see what we got in here okay so this looks like intake just like the last gel that i explored you've got one single cell and it's uh what's in here it's got a toilet over here let's go down so you can take a look that way there you go so there's your toilet and sit here hang out get processed there's a shower here and uh got some some chains you've got an interesting looking table or stool i wonder if anybody knows what that thing really is it's uh it's interesting i don't know what that is and then in here is where you've got supplies likely where they would keep the inmates clothing to give them when they when they get processed in and here is where you would go to have your conversation with a loved one there you go and they all have a telephone and a chair and the bars and then back over here is another one and then in here you've got a bigger one that holds two people maybe three outside has three phones it looks like um yeah and then that's that's head back up and then this here is just another corridor go upstairs afterwards i'm going to do the other upstairs now first [Music] remember those stairs over here i think it's cold in here here we go okay here we go up the stairs probably the same as down below a couple more ranges so here we are upstairs head over that way and what we'll do is we'll go through and we'll probably come out over there on the other side so here you've just got a bench to sit on and here's the cell [Music] and let's see i can't see the holes where i've been for the bag but there likely would have been a bed in there this will go outside it's a fire exit another cell a lot of peeling paint here watch this as i i'll zoom up a lot of water paint damage in here and no toilet so likely just a bed oh here's a toilet right here and then here's a common area sit and chill you have another shower and then back through here and then through these stick doors here got the toilet and here's another range that's actually a nice shot right there very nice so here one two three four five six cells you got a mirror a toilet and a shower and again these are very small cells only enough room for a bed inside and then there's your uh your control to open themselves i'm guessing go in there afterwards we'll go up here and check out the top floor range [Music] okay protective uh thing here and wire and metal to stop people from throwing things down at people and then again very similar to the last one we were at here is a very they're all very small very very small cells take a look down here see if we can go inside so there you go look at how small that cell is and there's another one this one doesn't go across so this one has another cell right here it's a little bit of a bigger cell i'll give you a pan up and then down and then you've got a toilet down here and a shower and then there's another view of this range all right so this is the main floor of an old of one building here's a standard looking bathroom and then here oh what do you got here it's a big pink cell interesting yeah we got a big pink cell here guys dom you broke my heart denise bailey 2011 revenge is sweet i love wade okay so this is where the women are held so looks like women's handwriting i wonder if this is just like a holding area because it's not any actual cells female supplies there we go yeah so this is a female wing of the prison and we'll go over here nothing here big empty room and okay so there's the staircase that we saw earlier but there's another another bunch of rooms over here [Music] okay sorry about that okay so here we've got two toilets no privacy and a single shower this here looks like it might have been a shower but i don't see where the water would have came from that's interesting and go through here back in here you've got us a door there with some bars on it i can find some good history on this place oh this is pretty cool here we go you've got wallpaper behind the paint so the paint has started to peel and you've got wallpaper exposing itself flower print wallpaper that's interesting yeah so this would likely be the woman's side of the prison okay so i've been there i've been there yeah i've been in there and i've been back there okay so let's head back [Music] downstairs okay i think i have seen pretty much everything that there is to see i've been in here here's uh what do you call this stuff one-way glass or two-way glass i don't know what the hell you call that stuff super duper thick this over here is the corridor where um family and loved ones would come to come through and they would come in check in here hey there's me what's up guys and then on the other side is where you have your phone calls okay okay i'm gonna take a quick break uh we're going to go over to the other side of the building now and uh we'll see the courtroom and some of the other stuff see you guys soon okay guys i'm back and uh now i'm on the other side of the building which is considered a courthouse and more of an administrative type building so let's uh let's just get right to it i'll turn the camera around and let's see what we got first thing we see super nice staircase there you go i will uh get you a better view from inside here there you go we'll now pan to the right left i should say and you've got the long main hallway with super nice arched features on the ceiling so we'll just take a nice easy walk through each of these rooms that i'm walking by are empty so you're not missing anything and here's a nice room you've got some curtains i'll just do a pan up there you go so you can see you got some curtains there and then you've got a nasty looking red carpet and then super nice i got some crown molding on the ceiling nice uh rounded corners now this is an interesting room i don't know what's going on here but you come in here and it looks like it's like maybe like a kid's playroom or something because you get these little tiny steps here that you climb up and then come on up in here and turn around and then there's this up here i don't really know what this is or what purpose this serves so it's really strange the steps are really weird and then there's this little spot up there and that's it so i'm wondering if this is the place where kids would play but i might be completely wrong maybe if somebody actually knows that they can come in and comment and tell me because i don't know all right back up this way and we'll come around through here and you've got a courtyard [Music] that doesn't really serve much of a purpose it's just a courtyard and let's get a nice shot up here right up to the top here we've just got i think this was a cafe or something because we'll just do a little pan around here and there's some interesting foam on the wall not sure the purpose of the foam on the wall and then you come through here and you've got i'm guessing a coffee shop because it says coffee on the wall and then you've got what he looks here like i'm guessing some kind of a cafe i don't know and now we'll go take a walk upstairs see what we got up here okay gonna be dark [Music] so now we're going towards the courtroom one of the highlights of exploring this building it's an interesting courtroom [Music] come over here we'll start on this side and it's got nice tall windows and a radiator here and then we come through here get our position come on inside and here is your courtroom super cool room really interesting that they set up this sort of drop ceiling temporary thing because i'm guessing that ceiling tiles were falling i'm just guessing here but so let's take a look this way get a nice wide shot towards the front of the courtroom and pan up now i saw pictures from here in the summertime and there was the judges gavel but it seems to be gone unless i still find it but there was a gavel here somewhere it almost looks like this was staged for like a movie or something it doesn't look real so here is what i'm guessing is a witness box scan down inside here nowhere to sit i guess you just stand right here as a witness and then you've got your jury to the left or to the right and then you come in here yeah this has been set up or something because there's no seat for the judge to sit so now i'm in the judges area but there's nowhere for him to sit okay so let's get out of here let's go this way either way whether this has been staged or not it's still cool in my opinion and then here's another side another witness box type thing presumably that's the jury and then in here maybe this is the judge's office in here judge's quarters got his own bathroom all rise so there's your railings and your your decorative features for the for the jerry box too bad they're not still up that would look really nice nice chairs too that's a nice window right there let's get a pan up there take a look at that and then here's your seat for the crowd to come in and watch and observe so now that we're in the middle let's just do a full pan of the whole room here we go so uh okay let's move on and we'll head down this hallway and see what we got back here head up to the attic we'll check that out when we're done up here here's another room with some curtains red curtains light fixtures and a bookshelf there's another room he got a dead bird on the floor he couldn't make it out there he is he didn't make it out guys he tried but he ran into the window too many times and then here is your main staircase from downstairs where you'd come up from the main floor and then you would go to the right to go into the courtroom which is right there continuing on here we have [Music] no clue no clue what's in here [Music] supply room [Music] and over here we have another room with curtains pan up and over there you go and then there was a room just off to the right in the courtroom that we can go check out i did go up the uh attic and there was nothing in it so there you can see the attic stairs but it was just a big dark wooden room so you're not missing much okay let's head this way and see what's in here got some steep stairs here and we've got a lot of water coming in from outside so this is an interesting room i believe that a part of this building was leased out to some sort of an art gallery or something and this is probably from that and then we'll head back over here got a room full of egg cartons must be some kind of a soundproof room [Music] and then you got a dead end right there okay guys hope you guys have liked this video hope you guys like this location this has been really cool um i've provided you guys with some history through voiceover and i'll put some links down below to my photo gallery i'll run outfit a little bit of a photo gallery here while the video ends help support my page make sure you like this video if you like it throw me a comment let me know what you think did you guys like this place was this a cool spot and at the same time uh share it if you got friends who you think would share it like this place share it on twitter share it on facebook anywhere else you can share it i hope 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