This is the last section of the 80 ft long mural I have been showing you for the last few weeks titled "Our Community At Sunset". This part shows the Montgomery's Inn which was built in 1830 at Dundas & Islington Ave and which is now beautifully restored and is a museum for the city. To the right of the inn in the mural you can see the modern stores of Humbertown Plaza which is actually located right beside the mural on Royal York Rd. Both places are major players in the neighborhood.
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This is the next part of the mural I started to show you last week, titled "Our Community at Sunset". This section shows the venerable Kingsway movie theatre on Bloor St as it might have looked in days gone by. It was opened in 1939 and was renovated in 2009 and still shows movies! I will show you a pic of it as it looks today on Wednesday.
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This is the mural on the west side of Royal York Rd opposite to the one I have been showing the last few weeks. It was done by the same artist, Emilia Jajus, in 2015 and shows some of the historically significant landmarks in the neighborhood. This first section of the 80 ft long mural shows James Gardens as it might have looked in 1908 when it was the garden of "Red Gables", the summer house of Frederick and Margaret James. I have shown you a lot of pics of James gardens which you can see by clicking the label below but this pic (HERE) from last year shows you a view looking up from the pond along the feeder stream that you can see in the mural. The gardens have been a public park since 1955 and are very popular for photo sessions.
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This is the last bit of the Royal York Rd mural on the east side. Next week I will show you the mural on the west side. I really like this section which wraps around the corner of the bridge - it is brilliant how she has the kids peeking around the tree trunk! The man in the oval is Robert Home Smith who was the developer for this whole area in the early 1900s and who wanted this 'bit of England'.
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This is the next really long section of the mural I showed you last week, found on Royal York Rd showing a bit of the Kingsway/Humber Valley scenery. This stone bridge was built in 1916 and still stands today and is known as the Old Mill bridge since it crosses the Humber River at the site of the Old Mill. The bridge fits in so well with the surrounding Tudor Revival homes.
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This is the first section of an 80 ft x 15 ft mural that was painted in an underpass along Royal York Rd in the Kingsway/Humber Valley Village neighbourhood in 2015. The artist is Emilia Jajus and in the mural she is attempting to show the development that took place in this area in the early 1900s. The developer was Robert Home Smith and he built mostly Tudor Revival homes set in a park-like setting in order to create a little bit of England in Toronto. It is a beautiful treed area now with the houses all still standing. I will show more sections over the next few Mondays.
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