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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.
The mural, painted by Sara Collard, is actually four separate works, each depicting a “slice of life” from our village’s past.
This mural, painted by John Kuna, commemorates the original founding families of Islington.
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”.
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
This mural, painted by John Kuna, shows the interior of this Dundas Street West building as it might have appeared around 1888.
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.
This mural, by artist John Kuna, honours the men of the Islington Volunteer Fire Brigade whose hall was located in this block.
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.
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.
This mural by artist Charlie Johnson is painted on Botwood`s post office.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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….
This mural, painted by John Hood, depicts life in the early 1900s in Fort Frances, the pre-dam era when the falls was often central to much of what happened in the community. This mural celebrates the late 1890s and early 1900s and the heyday of travel by steamboats. Views of early Fort Frances include the large hotels located along Central Avenue, the wharf located below the falls and activities such as the early ferry service and fishing at the falls. Once called the Alberton, Couchiching, Koochiching, Chaudiere Falls, the vision of the entrepreneur Edmund W. Backus in 1899 led to the damming of the falls in the pursuit of power and industry.
Frank Perna’s mural explores the concept of a sense of place for community in the natural world accessed through technology and the racial diversity found in Toronto through six main surfaces.
The Western Gateway Mural is a dramatic Underpass mural painted on the Cenotaph Underpass at Kingston Road and Danforth (opposite Variety Village). This Underpass mural welcomes visitors and residents entering from the west into southern Scarborough with an array of local landscape travelled through butterfly migration.
“Impressions” consists of over 500 photographs installed on tree planters along Jameson Ave. from Queen Street West to Springhurst Avenue in Toronto. It was unveiled on October 30, 2009 by Mayor David Miller, Councillor Gord Perks and Toronto Poet Laureate Dionne Brand.
This work was sponsored by the City of Toronto.
Artists: Jim Bravo and Kate Young, 2009
Sweet Olenka’s opened up a new location for their chocolate and ice cream shop.
A colourful theme was chosen to warm up the winter months and compliment the exciting community in Kensington Market.
This mural is on top of a mountain at Grouse Mountain Resort. Their 360-degree view of the mountains was translated into a mural in their chalet.
Artist: Nelson Garcia & Xochitl Location: 236 Clark Drive, Vancouver BC Best Viewed: On Clark The Earth Giveth & the Earth Taketh Away Mural is a rewording from the bible (Job 1:21) with the word earth substituted for the word Lord and the tense changed from past to present. A good reminder for all to…
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