Author of the article: Ian MacAlpine Publishing date: Apr 13, 2021 • 20 minutes ago • 5 minute read David St. Onge stands in the hallway between Kingston Penitentiary's recreation Hall and the main dome area on Friday, April 7, 2021, where many of the events of the April 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot took place. Photo by Ian MacAlpine /The Whig-Standard Article content During a private tour of Kingston Penitentiary just five days shy of the 50th anniversary of the infamous riot of April 14-18, 1971, David St. Onge, curator of Canada’s Penitentiary Museum, and I retraced the steps of the inmates who took part in the deadly uprising.