Removed Archives - Mural Routes

A mural featuring a horse pulling a red and white covered wagon bearing the name 'Everest and Sons Grocers'. A man in a large-brimmed hat sits on the covered wagon, while another man walks away from the wagon holding one box in each hand. The horse and wagon is waiting on an unpaved road by a wheat field in front of a green hedge with flowers, which extends into a hilly and tree-lined terrain. A child stands beside the horse presenting it a flower. Another child and figure in period-typical clothing wait at a gate that separates the hedge.

Horse-Drawn Delivery Wagon

When Scarborough consisted mostly of farms, orchards and scattered villages, horse-drawn delivery wagons were a common sight. The Everest family operated the delivery service for a wide area around Scarborough Junction and included Cliffside in their rounds. The family business is still represented in Cliffside by Everest’s Hardware store on Kingston Road.

A mural of a house with a porch, with four figures standing on it. Beside the house is a 1930s-style police vehicle with two figures driving. A youth cycles in front of the mural.

The Highland Creek Parade

This mural was removed in 2010.
This mural depicts 100 years of Highland Creek life. The images, people, animals, vehicles and buildings are assembled in a logical sequence of a parade without chronology. They are icons in a continuum.

A blue-toned mural on a wall. Painted faces border a figure seated in front of a mountain range while five geese and an eagle fly overhead.

Remembering Spiritual Ancestry

Indigenous artist Randy Knott created this mural in honour of the Indigenous people who once inhabited or visited the area around the Scarborough Bluffs.

A four-paneled mural meeting at an Ancient-Greek style bust head. Moving clockwise, the panels show: graffiti-style lettering; contemporary art, including cubism and abstract style; cave paintings, and Renaissance-inspired art.

The Stages of Art

Using the input and suggestions of community members, the artists developed a concept and ultimately created a mural depicting the stages of art. This mural depicts western prehistoric people first murals, a Greco-Roman sculpture, baroque and impressionist pieces and graffiti.

A mural covers two walls on a Bank of Montreal building, depicting multicoloured statues, Indigenous art, classical architecture and wraps around the building, ending in a fiber-optic cable.

Agincourt’s Journey Through Time

Utilizing suggestions from the community and historical information, the three artists collaborated to create this mural which begins in rural Agincourt, continues through the present and extends in to the future, depicted by a mass of fibre optic cables.

A building with two painted walls in a public park.

Wall Mural Course & Project

The approach of this mural adopted a “super-hero” interpretation of Article 7. The design depicts the beneficial rule of law as heroic armoured figures; these archetypes personify the liberating, civilising and protective aspects of a just legal tradition.

A multicoloured mural painted on a wall on a cloudy day.

Sail On and Fare Well

This mural depicts life’s natural cycles and the human journey, incorporating a flow of figures, birds, fish and natural elements swirling within its borders.

Four images - two images of urban life, two passport-style portraits - lay side by side on a concrete tree planter.

Jameson Avenue Impressions

Created by artist Jim Bravo and photographer Kate Young, “Impressions” consists of over 500 photographs installed on tree planters along Jameson Avenue from Queen Street West to Springhurst Avenue in Toronto’s Parkdale community.

A mural of Canada geese taking flight from a river next to maple and birch trees. The mural is painted on the second floor of a retail plaza.

Shahab Plaza Mural

This mural was conceived as the companion mural to Sail On and Fair Well (2009).

A mural depicting a tree and large canopy in front of a setting sun. Two hands meet in front of the tree, with five figures standing to the left of the tree and eight animals of varying species stand to the right.

Hope for Harmony

The artists’ aim was to create an image representative of the diverse community in Toronto.

A mural of four dragons, three young and one adult, fire-breathing dragon, painted on a concrete traffic barrier.

Dragon Mural

This dragon-themed mural incorporates imagination, colour and creativity in dramatically changing the appearance of this drab strip plaza.

A mural of a white Pegasus in a light blue forest, painted on a garage.

The Kenwood Pegasus

Please note: this mural was removed – 2021

An artist paints a sepia-toned mural of a horse and carriage stopped behind three figures looking at something on the road. A large factory is painted behind the figures and carriage, braring the name "The Harris Co. LTD."

Passing the Abattoirs on Danforth

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.

Let’s Take a Walk on the Wild Side

This mural was painted in 2016 by B.C. Johnson, with support from StreetARToronto’s Support Program. Johnson covered all four walls of the building (nearly 1000 square feet) with a freehand landscape design featuring Canadian flora and fauna. Upon completion of the mural, Johnson was hired by local businesses to paint numerous walls in the same plaza.

Taste of Lawrence

(Please note: this mural was removed – 2018)
Spanning 5 separate walls, this mural shows a variety of scenes from the festival that celebrates the energy, culture and people of Wexford Heights neighbourhood