(Kingston) Pen (the)

noun, Kingston Penitentiary, a former maximum security prison in Kingston, Ontario

“The guy that moved that house was the guy from that penitentiary. He was a warden at the Pen.”

“There’s a woman; she works at the Pen and she married someone who lives in The States … and she commutes. I’m not sure if she’s still doing that, but she would come across our ferry. But that’s a long jaunt.”

“Did anybody ever said anything about some of the quarrying that was done along that North shore there? And the stone used for the Pen.”

“You can hardly see the old lighthouse now ’cause the light isn’t very bright now like compared to the background of all the city lights, eh … This one was built in 1833, so they say, built by the convicts from the Kingston Pen.”