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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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….
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Masonic Lodge
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.
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Pulse of the Community
Charlie Johnston shows how a cottage hospital drives a community. It shows care and concern by the people involved. Dr. Twomey is listening to the pulse of the community. The mural was painted on the site of the old cottage hospital which is now a grocery store.
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Clash of Cultures
This mural, by artist Craig Goudie, depicts the history and culture of the Beothuk people with emphasis on Damasduit (aka Mary March) who died aboard HMS Grasshopper in Botwood Harbour during an attempt to reunite her with people.
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Busy Wagons
Busy Wagons was the first mural commissioned by the Millennium Murals Committee and installed in the summer of 1999.
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Aftermath
Hurricane Hazel struck Toronto on October 15, 1954. In her wake most of the Islington Golf Course and low-lying areas near Mimico Creek were flooded. The mural painted by John Kuna shows a group of volunteers arriving to help as a member of the Islington Fire Brigade helps moor their boat.
