Inside Out Project

Location: East wall of the school near Broadview and Dundas

Date photo taken: 14 August 2019

Running down the entire eastern wall of this school on Dundas Street East is a double row of large black and white photographs. The portraits were facilitated by the Inside Out Project, a global program designed to engage people with art and their communities. 

High Strung

Location: King Street just west of Jarvis
Date photo taken: 13 August 2019

This fun and colourful new seating area on King Street is one of several new “parklets” that have popped up this summer along the King Street Transit Priority Corridor, which is the stretch of King between Bathurst and Jarvis. The parklets are installed in former parking spaces along the route, providing a place to sit and relax, and some are even programmed with activities and art. Chosen through a design competition held by the City, High Strung was designed and built by the landscape architecture team at Brook McIlroy.

P.S. The King Street pilot project is a pilot no longer. On April 16, 2019, City Council voted to make the changes permanent.

Black Creek Pioneer Village

Location: Black Creek Pioneer Village, near Steeles and Jane

Date photo taken: 22 September 2018

School may be out for summer but there's still lots to see and do at Black Creek Pioneer Village. This site, run by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, is a careful recreation of an Ontario town from the 1860s complete with all the buildings you'd expect, costumed interpreters and heritage breed animals. If that's not enough to tempt you, how about a haunted walk? Or some axe throwing? Or maybe some goat yoga with the cutest kids around? These are some of the special programming available through their Nightlife program.

If you just can't make it out to the Village but want to travel in back in time, all of the buildings and animals are profiled on the Black Creek website. 

Weston Mural

Location: Weston Road, just south of Lawrence

Date photo taken: 26 May 2019

This is one small section of a mural that extends almost 80 metres along the south side of the parking lot at the Weston GO and Union Pearson Express station. It was commissioned by the City’s StreetArt Program and the artists were chosen through a public art competition. While the mural doesn't exclusively focus on the history of Weston, this section features two items synonymous with Weston's manufacturing past. The Kodak factory purchased 25 acres of land at Eglinton Ave. W. and Weston Road in 1913 and proceeded to build seven buildings for its growing operations. This area would remain the home of Kodak's Canadian headquarters until 2005. The significance of the penny farthing is a bit more of a stretch. For over 65 years Weston was the home of the Canada Cycle & Motor Company, better known as CCM. While they did initially specialize in bicycles it is highly unlikely they ever produced penny farthings.