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<\/p>\nCouncillors were offered an up-close look at the images that will make up a new mural set to be erected inside the Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre\u2019s cafe.<\/p>\n
Featuring images spanning the last 200 years, the mural is set to be a pictorial timeline of Niagara-on-the-Lake and its various communities from 1812 to 2012. From the Battle of Queenston Heights to young children dressed in soldier costumes at modern-day Fort George, the Chautauqua Hotel, most of the town\u2019s significant events and landmarks are covered through the images. Culled from museums, private collections and archives, Terry Boulton, chair of the cafe mural committee said he ended up with a large number of images that he was tasked with paring down.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to make sure all of the important things were represented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The end result is a beautiful mural showing the community as it evolved over 200 years. There are pictures of the wooden-planked Queenston-Lewiston Bridge and the trains that carried passengers along the gorge wall. People in old-fashioned bathing suits enjoying the public beaches in town, docks in winter broken up by ice dams and public skating on man-made ponds are all pictured. There are war-time images \u2014 both paintings from the War of 1812 as well as photographs of soldiers from the 2nd World War, \u00a0the\u00a0Ice Wine Festival. Modern day images include the Ice Wine Festival, offshore workers, and Shaw Festival production stills.<\/p>\n
On Monday night, prior to the committee of the whole meeting, Boulton laid the photos out chronologically in the Mary Snider Room at the Virgil Arena to allow town councillors the opportunity to sneak a peek at what the mural might look like.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe town is providing us with the funds, so we wanted to give them a chance to see what it\u2019s going to look like,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
While the mural will be complete by October, the committee is planning to have its official unveiling in November. The mural \u2014 which will be six-feet tall and spread 30 feet in length \u2014 will be erected inside the cafe area of the Community Centre.<\/p>\n
Boulton said they are planning to have a lectern constructed to accompany the mural and act as a \u2018legend\u2019 for the images.<\/p>\n
Article taken from Niagara Advance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mural tells 200 years of NOTL history Mural tells 200 years of NOTL history.\u00a0Terry Boulton, chair of Niagara-on-the-Lake\u2019s cafe mural committee, looks at some of the images that will eventually become part of the mural set to be erected … Continue reading