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This mural was once painted at 5112 Dundas St. West. It continued the theme of children at play introduced by the Riding the Radials mural at 5110 and completed with Fishing in Mimico Creek at 5096 Dundas W. Three murals are set in the 1920s; this one showed a group of children on a “tandem” sleigh which was custom built for the Appleby family. The image is borrowed from a photo in the Islington Archives at Montgomery’s Inn.

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This mural painted on the bridge at Islington and Dundas W. welcomes people to the Village of Islington.

On the left see the little red school house and bell tower, watchmen from the Guelph Radial Line construction, Thomas Waterworth, Henry Hill and Mary Appleby’s mother’s father who lived at Montgomery’s Inn. Helen Tier (left) and Mary Appleby (right). In buggy (left) Alice Appleby (Mary’s father’s sister) (right) Mary nee Cavan, Mrs. John Appleby, Mary’s grandmother.

On the right side see a stucco-clad Montgomery’s Inn and Mary Appleby’s 3 cousins, the Pickerings. Photo taken in front of the Appleby house at 4872 Dundas. In the background right to left, Jubilee Hall, moved from a site across from Islington’s Burying Grounds, the Tiers house, and the roof line of Montgomery Inn in the distance.

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Depicts the property known as Briarly, home to the William Montgomery family from 1870-1989.

Briarly was demolished in 1989 and the loss of this beautiful structure was heartbreaking for the heritage community of Toronto. Rather than portraying Briarly as a symbol of mourning and loss, this mural was created to show endurance and renewal, to convey a sense of comfort, peace, home and family. It is painted in Post-Impressionist style.

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The work tells the story of the Islington United Church from its early Wesleyan Methodist days on Dundas to its current location at 25 Burnhamthorpe Road. It shows Scottish stone masons building today’s Islington United Church. It also shows a circuit rider, one of many saddlebag ministers, who, as early as 1815, rode from hamlet to hamlet attending to the spiritual needs of ~ 30 rural communities.

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This mural completes the Children at Play trilogy also present on Riding the Radials at 5110 and on Toboggan Hill at 5112 Dundas W.

As this area is undergoing environmental restoration, this mural is intended to educate what the creek’s former ecosystem may have looked like and what improved creek life could return to. It includes largemouth bass, rainbow trout, pumpkinseed sunfish, common shiner, white sucker and blacknose dace. Look for the common snapping turtle, the leopard frog tadpole, the diving beetle, the crayfish and the dragonfly nymph.