In an alley to the southeast of Huron St. and Dundas West is a mural of the Great Wall of China. It is 147 feet long (almost 45 m) and 12 feet high.
Chinatown BIA.
Mural painted by Blinc Studios artists: Allan Bender, John Nobrega, Rick Sauve, Brian Broders, Jesse McQuaig and Ming Lau.
Painted in the summer of 2013.
Located at the northwest corner of Regent Park Blvd and St. David St.,
(which is south of Dundas East and east of Sackville)
painted on the wood hoardings around a construction site.
This wall was painted as part of The Patch Project
PATCH = “Public Art Through Construction Hoarding”
Unfortunately, one photo that is missing is one of the section of the wall that is a large section that says “Conquer Adversity with Diversity”, the title of this work.
More information on The Patch Project
Chinatown Mural
2011 by Alexa Hatanaka and Aaron Li-Hill
Commissioned by the Chinatown BIA & located in an alley near Dundas & Spadina.
The mural is based on scenes from everyday life in Toronto’s Chinatown.
Amnesty International Toronto Organization is a group that works in the to raise public awareness of human rights issues. One of the projects that it supports is Urban Canvas. Thirty murals were planned, each based on one of the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Art Alley Mural Project produced by Arts Etobicoke in 2010 was designed by Susan Rowe Harrison and painted by William Lazos. It incorporates a poem by Dionne Brand, Toronto’s Poet Laureate in 2010 that is based on Article 13. This article states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.”
The mural is on the wall of 4893A Dundas St. West, alongside a narrow pedestrian walkway.
See also a previous post on two of Urban Canvas project murals at Parma Court
Also, a mural celebrating education, article 26.
I walked around the corner and down a small dead end lane and this is what I saw.
near St. Clair West
Stand Together,
a mural on Richmond St. East between Church and Jarvis streets.
Painted by Spud, 2014
The center part of the mural is a little 3D Toronto under a rainbow.
The CN Tower is there as well as a few cranes. Perhaps you recognize other buildings?
It even has a painting of the mural in it!
Trace is the name of a mural on Gerrard St. East near Main Street.
It was painted by Mat Hand in 2009.
website for more information about the artist
Four-D, a mural on Woodfield at Gerrard East in Little India
by artists Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson, October 2013
supported by the city of Toronto and Gerrard India Bazaar
On a fence at Adam Beck Junior Public school in Scarborough is a wonderful “mural” composed of pictures painted by some of the students. Kudos to all involved in the project!
A “Danger due to construction” sign, the CN Tower and a Toronto police car.
Ladybugs, flowers and trees.
On the very right is a picture that looks like a sunset or sunrise. What you probably can’t read are the words written on the blue stripe. They say, “the story of my life”.
Buses, soccer balls and a hat left on the fence.
Another CN Tower, an arena, and ice cream.
Stop bullying too.
A Canadian flag and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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.
as I walk Toronto 