Scarborough Bluffs Park on sunny but windy Sunday afternoon in March.
The red twig dogwood is looking redder and the trees are barely starting to bud.
The water and air are still cold enough that icicles form on the overhanging branches that get hit by waves.
The Heritage Trail murals are a series of murals depicting the history of Scarborough. The project began in 1990 and consists of 12 murals at different locations along Kingston Road (old hwy 2).
Just west of Midland Ave are two of the murals.
Half Way House painted in 1990 by John Hood at 2052 Kingston Road, the NW corner of Midland & Kingston Rd. It is a picture of the Half Way House inn (and stage coach stop) that stood at this corner. It’s name comes from the fact that it was halfway between the village of Dunbarton (now a part of Pickering) and the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. In 1965 the building was moved to Black Creek Pioneer village.
Just farther to the west is another mural. ‘The Bluffs as Viewed by Elizabeth Simcoe c. 1793’ was painted by Risto Turunen in 1992. It is on the side of the building located at 2384 Kingston Rd, now Wong’s Martial Arts. Elizabeth Simcoe was the wife of wife of Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
The property beside this mural is now vacant and is enclosed by the type of blue temporary fencing that you see around many construction sites all around Toronto. If there was a building there, it has been demolished, otherwise there is no work being done there at the moment.
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