[PHOTO] Kingston, the Limestone City, August 2003

The city of Kingston is also known as the "Limestone City", after the sedimentary rock that not only underlies this city built on the southeastern edge of the Canadian Shield, but which supplied building supplies to the 19th century city. (Kingston's limestone dates to the Paleozoic Era between a half-billion and quarter-billion years before present.) I rather liked these handsome buildings, especially coming from Prince Edward Island where owing to the Island's lack of suitable building stone wood, not stone was the material of choice in the 19th century.