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Created to commemorate the Midland Post Office’s 125th anniversary. The mural views as a postage stamp that includes a scene of Downtown Midland in the era of 1885. The gentleman seen in the foreground is Midland’s first postmaster Thomas Gladstane.
Depicting the early years of a 20th Century livery stable and the introduction of the automobile when it started taking over traditional transportation.
Birch trees in Autumn.
This design celebrates the beauty of growth and community. It depicts a young child planting a seed. She has planted several seeds, each at a different stage of growth, each healthy and beautiful. She has been given the tools she needs, and in turn, she uses them to give the plants what they need to grow.
This mural shows a business man in his suit pushing a wheelbarrow with a giant flower growing out of it. Half the mural is in black & white, the other is in colour.
The Police horse and carriage mural tells a story about Toronto’s past. The factory is the old glue factory that once stood at Danforth and Coxwell Avenue, and the horse and carriage is on it’s way back to the police stables that were located where the Greenwood subway yard is now.
Artist: Blinc Studios Location: Intersection of Dundas and Spadina, Toronto The Journey to the West mural was commissioned by the Chinatown BIA and received the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas award for best city mural for 2014. The mural is 18’X122’ painted on prepared exterior brick wall.
The Rainforest Gorilla mural is one of first murals painted for Toronto Zoo’s in 1998. Acrylic painted on prepared concrete walls. 18’X129′.
Artist: Blinc Studios
The Giant Panda mural is one of 28 murals painted for Toronto Zoo’s animal, bird and reptile exhibits ranging in sizes ranging in size from 3’X 4.5’ to 18’X 138’
Acrylic paint on prepared walls, 18’X138′.
Artist: Blinc Studios
Location: In an alley to the southeast of Huron St. and Dundas West The Great Wall of China mural was commissioned by the Chinatown BIA in July 2013. 18’X122’ painted on prepared exterior brick wall. Artists: Blinc Studios artists Allan Bender, John Nobrega, Rick Sauve, Brian Broders, Jesse McQuaig and Ming Lau, 2013
The Shorebird exhibit mural is one of 28 murals painted for Toronto Zoo’s animal, bird and reptile exhibits. Acrylic paint on prepared concrete wall. 17’X 38′
The African Savanna Giraffe Exhibit. Acrylic paint on prepared concrete surface. 18’X 165′.
Artist: Blinc Studios
As part of the Canada Mosaic 150 Mural project celebrating Canada’s 150 birthday, individual Moose Jaw artists each painted a 4’ x 4’ tile, and it was put together as a tribute to Moose Jaw and the Canadian Snow Birds.
Based on a photograph taken by J.W. Bald around 1910 – Reveals how much the local resident’s lives centered on the Midland Harbour in the early 1900’s. Since Midland was situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay it was predicted that Midland would become the “Chicago of the North”.​
Farther along the wall on Dominion Street from the first Midland Railway Corporation mural, a second mural shows the engine house. The men are re-positioning the turntable to allow the locomotive to leave the yard.
Capturing the Midland Railway as it was – The station was officially opened for commercial and passenger use in 1879 and existed until 1998.
With this mural you will see a view of a woman working away on an early model sewing machine while her cats look out the window across the road at the Woolen Mill Store.
This mural depicts a typical sawmill of the 1900’s. As was noted from previous murals, the lumber industry played a big part in the growth of the Midland area.
This is a rendering of the Brebeuf Lighthouse originally built in the 1900’s. It was built to guide ships on course from Giant’s Tomb to the channel serving Midland Bay.
This reproduction painting is a large version of an original oil painting done by Norman Rockwell. It was commissioned in the late 1920’s by Pratt and Lambert.
On the laneway beside the Southern Georgian Bay Chamber of Commerce building, this mural is actually entitled “Coureurs de Bois” which translates as “Runners of the Woods” shows fur traders meeting and working with the Hurons.
Originally painted by Fred Lenz in 1994 and redesigned by Ruth Hurdle in 2008. It is a collage of the tourist attractions, which promotes the spirit of Midland. In honour of the late, local artist Fred Lenz, an image of him can be seen painting a scene in the bottom left corner of the mural.
Artist: John Kuna, 2005 This mural depicts Islington at the turn of the century. Collaged from images in the photo archives at Montgomery’s Inn and posted on etobicokehistorical.com, both the buildings and the people were real. Painted in photographic representational style, this Village of Islington mural, titled The way we were – Islington ca 1900,…
This mural, painted by artist John Kuna, depicts Dundas Street at three stages in Islington’s history.
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