Woolen Mill
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.
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Saw Mill
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.
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Brebeuf Lighthouse
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.
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A Day for Mary
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.
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Runners of the Woods
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.
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Rotary Mural
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.
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The Way We Were – Islington ca. 1900
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,…
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Timeline, Islington Then and Now
This mural, painted by artist John Kuna, depicts Dundas Street at three stages in Islington’s history.
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Prodigy
This mural, painted by John Kuna depicts widely celebrated pianist Glen Gould at the piano. This mural honours that history showing the RCM’s most celebrated former student Glenn Gould, circa 1947, with his childhood teacher Antonio Alberto Garcia Guerrero.
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Portraits From Our Past
The mural, painted by Sara Collard, is actually four separate works, each depicting a “slice of life” from our village’s past.
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Ordinary Folk, Extraordinary Lives
This mural, painted by John Kuna, commemorates the original founding families of Islington.
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Ontario Gothic
Painted by John Kuna and based on a photo of the Appleby family taken around 1900 in front of their farmhouse on the northwest corner of Dundas St. West and Islington Avenue, this mural is intended as a parody of Grant Wood’s iconic 1930s painting entitled “American Gothic”.
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The Old Swimming Hole
This is artist John Kuna’s conception of the old swimming hole once located on Willow Dale Farm and a fanciful look at the swimwear of earlier times
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The Manse Committee
This mural, painted by John Kuna, shows the interior of this Dundas Street West building as it might have appeared around 1888.
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Islington – The Way We Were – Part II
Artist: John Kuna, 2006 – Designed as a companion piece for the mural on the opposite wall, this mural depicts Islington ca 1912. Together they form a unique historical diorama with the first one looking east and this one looking west along Dundas Street.
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Honouring Islington’s Volunteer Fire Brigade
This mural, by artist John Kuna, honours the men of the Islington Volunteer Fire Brigade whose hall was located in this block.
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Harold G. Shipp’s “First High Flier!”
In May of 1944 an eighteen-year-old Etobicoke High School student named Harold G. Shipp convinced a pilot, who ferried Lancaster bombers from Toronto to England during the war, to fly over the school’s football field and drop cards which could be redeemed for prizes. This event is memorialized in the following mural by artist John Kuna.
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Golfing in Islington
The Islington Golf Club designed by Stanley Thompson, one of the foremost golf course architects in North America at the time, is located just minutes from this site. In the foreground, golfers dressed in the late 1920s fashion enjoy their day on the green.
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Twilight of Airmail
This mural by artist Charlie Johnson is painted on Botwood`s post office.
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Sceviour’s Sawmill
Painted by Caroline Noseworthy, this mural depicts the legacy of Donald Scott Sceviour and the logging and pulpwood industry. Botwood was used to ship millions of board feet of lumber and pulpwood around the province and overseas.
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Salute to Our Veterans
This mural was painted by Craig Goudie of Grand Falls-Windsor. It is painted on a concrete wall measuring 36.5 feet long and 6 feet high. These murals were officially unveiled on September 9th, 2015.
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The Water Nipper
Painted by Lloyd Pretty from a photo given to Botwood Mural Arts Society by a World War Two veteran who served at Botwood with the Victoria Rifles of Canada.
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Greeting to Taniperla
The mural, titled Greeting to Taniperla, was a community art project and part of the Community Art Biennale 2000. In addition to the original design, the mural also includes images representing issues affecting Toronto communities. In 1998, a mural was unveiled in the town of Taniperla in Chiapas. The mural depicted Mayan traditions and ideals of community life and represented peace, harmony, unity and happiness, until it was taken down by the Mexican armed forces. Murals were duplicated in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Ireland, San Francisco, Mexico City and Toronto as an act of solidarity.
Local artists Claire Carew, Hannah Claus, Sady Ducros, Lynn Hutchinson, Raffael Iglesias, and Shelley Niro, worked with 16 students from two Scarborough area high schools (Winston Churchill Collegiate and Alternative Scarboro Education 2) and with children from five elementary schools across Toronto. The mural imagery was workshopped at A Space Gallery in May and then painted on the walls of the handball courts at Scarboro Missions.
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CIBC Mural
This vision of E.W. Backus, Minneapolis entrepreneur, eventually led to the damming of the falls located on the Rainy River between the sister communities of Fort Frances, Ontario and International Falls, Minnesota. Negotiations for the construction of a dam were difficult since the Rainy River was international water and permission from both governments was required….
