I heard that there was a new mural near Finch and Morningside which of course means that I have to try and find it. In doing so, I found three murals. This is their story.
This is Morningside Heights at the far eastern side of Scarborough. The Rouge River, the border between Scarborough and Pickering, is not far away. The Toronto Zoo is also nearby.
below: Bus 133, Neilson Road, waits at a stop on Finch just west of Morningside. The houses that you see in the background are on Morningside.
The Canadian Pacific railway tracks run on a diagonal at this intersection. They cross Morningside south of Finch and they also cross Finch just west of Morningside. The bridges, and underpasses, are very close to each other. In this photo, the train is on the bridge over Finch. Do people often stand outside the front of a train?
In the above picture, the wall of the underpass on the left is unpainted. The wall on the right, the one that you can’t see has a mural by Mediah.
It is called “Interoh Gale” and Mural Routes was a partner in its development last year.
below: west end
below: east end
below: Construction has begun on the southwest corner of this intersection. The site plan, approved last year, shows a Shell gas station with retail on three sides of it. Leases are available! (you’ll have to google it).
below: There is a pond with a walking trail around it almost directly across Morningside from the above construction site.
below: Two people, after being on the trail around the pond, walk south on Morningside via an underpass that has murals on both sides. This is mural on the east side. It is older than the others but it is in reasonably good shape.
below: A boy on a skate board and a girl doing what? The two green signs say Love and Malvern. I don’t know Scarborough well enough to know if the buildings in the mural represent real ones. Malvern is just to the west.
below: MFRC is Malvern Family Resource Centre and there is a picture on their website of the unveiling of this mural in September 2015.
below: This is the newest mural. It is called “Colour Outside the Lines” and it is the work of Lacey and Layla Art (aka Lacey Jane and Layla Folkmann)
below: Looking north on Morningside from Finch.
On the northwest corner of this intersection, there is a large piece of vacant land. The railway tracks run along the west side of it. I can’t find any information about it online. There isn’t the usual blue and white Notice of Development sign. The website on the billboard shows some of the houses that they have built/remodeled but there is nothing about this particular project.
Once it was fenced in by the looks of it. Not much of the black cloth remains. It looks a bit creepy, as nature undoes man’s work.
But now it’s for sale maybe? LOL. A cliff hanger ending for this post!
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Great finds. I was just in Morningside on Thursday but I was mostly in the woods. It wasn’t until the pandemic came along that I went beyond a few places in Scarborough. Really glad to have spent much more time there, particularly in nature, this summer.
I noticed that you had written something about walking/riding near the Rouge. I took these pictures on Wednesday afternoon last week – trying to get out every day when the weather’s warm!
Same here. Actually my intent is to just keep going out no matter what – even for only 20-30 minutes. Will try to alternate running one day and cycling the next. We’ll see how that goes if we get an icy torrential downpour.
Yes – down near the Rouge on last Thursday for the Scarborough loop. really great ride.