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2020 - Toronto ON

Monday Mural

I'm linking up at Monday Mural 


Mural by Durothethird, painted for the 100th anniversary of Hilroy.

There isn't a school kid in Canada that doesn't recognize this name! These were the notebooks we all used at school.
Hilroy has long had a veritable monopoly on the academic stationery market and, to this day, these 80-page spiral-bound notebooks remain inescapable nationwide.

Even when I started working these notebooks could be found in the Stationery department.

The name is based on the founder, Roy Corson Hill.

Roy Corson Hill founded Hilroy as the Canadian Pad and Paper Co. Limited on July 4th, 1918, on the second floor of what is now a Marriott hotel at 255 Wellington Street in downtown Toronto using rented second-hand equipment and employing six people including himself.

Hill’s stationery proved so popular that within two years he was obliged to expand operations and move to offices at the corner of King West and Brant – he would upgrade again a decade later to a factory near Casa Loma. By the late 1950s, Hill’s once-modest company was a thriving enterprise that had absorbed Eaton Crane & Pike Limited, L.P. Bouvier, the Canadian Stationery Company and others to become Hilroy Envelopes and Stationery Limited. It boasted commanding facilities that spanned more than a quarter of a million square feet. The family business became a corporate colossus. Hilroy notebooks were everywhere.

Pull Up a Seat

Pull Up a Seat


Toronto ON
Fair Grounds
Michel Goulet, 2003

The chairs, unique in period and style, are arranged in a variety of pairings expressing the diversity of our relationships and communications. The title and arrangement of the work remind us of the fairness and equality necessary to our shared existence.

Sculpture King-Front

August 2017 - Toronto ON

These sculptures are in and around Front St. and King St. from Blue Jays Way to Simcoe St.



I continue to use the book Creating Memory and the website dittwald.com for information on the sculptures I find around town.

Wellington St. in front of a condo.

Fair Grounds- Michel Goulet, 2003

Colourful flags waving on top of poles and a variety of silver chairs on the sidewalk form this sculpture.

Outside the Renaissance Hotel at the Rogers Centre.

Spiral Fountain - Judith Schwarz, 1989

South of King St. on John

Constellation - Albert Paley, 2002

Metro Hall

Click here to see more Metro Hall sculpture.

Jaan Poldaas' Surface Design for Tampered Windscreens (1992), a sculpture composed of tempered glass screens which functions as a windbreak. The screens are etched with vertical and horizontal lines to create different relationships, and are arranged so that people can walk between them.

“It is one of the few sculptures in Toronto that people notice, remember and talk about,” John Warkentin writes in his book, “Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto.”

Remembered Sustenance, as it’s called, was created by artist Cynthia Short, and is made up of 19 bronze animals. Some of the animals seem to be walking towards a bronze dish, which sits below a curtain with bronze birds perched on top of it. Others are walking away from it.

Off Front St. beside the CBC.
Click here for more sculpture close  by.

Anish Kapoor, 1995
Untitled (mountain) is a water-jet cut aluminium sculpture created by internationally renowned British artist Anish Kapoor. He has intended the work to be open and rich with potential metaphoric and symbolic meanings, as an actual mountain might be.

Decline

One Word Sunday is hosted by Travel with Intent.

13 August - Decline

I politely declined to sit down on these metal chairs on a hot sunny afternoon!

30 April - Cliche
7 May - Caring
14 May: Spectacle
21 May: Flag (or flagging)
28 May: Rush
4 June: Restless
11 June: Abstract
18 June: Entwined
25 June: Repetitive
2 July - Inclined
9 July - Underfoot
16 July - Old
23 July - Through
30 July: Horizon
6 August: Upright
14 August: Decline
21 August: Time
28 August: Lookout