Downsview

John McKinnon 'Boney Bus'
1035 Sheppard Avenue West
An art installation right outside Sheppard West Station designed by artist John McKinnon, the work consists of a doodle of a bus made from giant metal beams.

Downsview Park Merchants Market
40 Carl Hall Road (North Side of Building)
First opening in 2005, this bustling indoor marketplace offers a 10,000 square foot farmers market selling fresh fruits and vegetables and a shopping market selling electronics, home furnishing, automotive parts, cookware, and more. The market is also known for its international food court that features from different cuisines all over the world. The market is located in part of a massive 7.5 hectare heritage-designated building that was formerly supply depot for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Built at the height of the Cold War in the mid 1950s, one unique feature of the building is a stormwater reservoir housed beneath it that can hold up to 4 million litres of water that could be used to put out fires in case of an attack.

Curtia Wright, Danilo Deluxo, Elicser Elliott, Jacquie Comrie, Kreecha, MEDIAH, Moises Frank(Luvs), Ness Lee, Yung Yemi (Adeyemi Adegbesan) 'ALLSTYLE' Mural
40 Carl Hall Road (Southwest Side of Building)
'ALLSTYLE' is a massive mural collaboration creating space for BIPOC Street Artists, Graf Writers and Muralists to express their best selves, cultural identity, and unique style with the aim to unite our communities. The 360 foot long mural brings together 9 talented artists from across the spectrum, shining light on ALL styles of mural expression exploring themes of ancestry, ethnicity as well as inner strength and radiating one's internal shine.

The Hangar
75 Carl Hall Road
This building was a former hangar of the de Havilland Aircraft of Canada complex, which was originally constructed in the 1930s. The de Havilland Company was Canada's largest supplier of government-owned aircraft in the 1930s, and produced 1,100 Mosquito bombers and other fighter planes for use by Allied military forces during the Second World War. De Havilland moved its production facilities to another newly constructed facility to the southeast of this location in the early 1950s, where aircraft are still produced to this day by Bombardier. The building is now known as 'The Hangar' and is home to a multi-purpose sports recreation facility.

Centennial College Bombardier Centre for Aerospace and Aviation
65 Carl Hall Road
This 4-acre college campus is located in a heritage-designated building that used to house the de Havilland of Canada aircraft company and is the oldest surviving aircraft factory in Canada. The structure opened in 1929, with further additions added in the 1930s and 1940s. Over 3,000 Tiger Moth and 1,134 Mosquito bomber aircrafts were constructed here. After the factory closed, the building was used as part of a military base, and then as an air and space museum that closed in 2011. The building was then transformed into a new Centennial College campus intended to house its aviation technician and aerospace manufacturing programs, opening in 2019. Part of the renovations included adding a new hangar large enough to house modern commercial jets.

Danilo Deluxo 'Ulysses Curtis Mural'
10 Carl Hall Road
Danilo Deluxo has created this mural of Ulysses 'Crazy Legs' Curtis: a trailblazing Toronto Argonaut running back, much-loved educator, and local hero. Ulysses Curtis joined the Argos in 1950, becoming their first full-time Black player. Seventy years later, he remains among the team's top five offensive players. He helped win two Grey Cups in his five seasons with the Argos and stood up to considerable racial animosity. Upon his retirement from football, Curtis started a new career, working with young people in the Downsview community. He became one of the first Black teachers at the North York Board of Education and spent thirty years teaching at various North York high schools. In 2013, Ulysses Curtis passed away in Toronto at 87, but his legacy lives on in Downsview and this mural.

Downsview Park Play Zone
Across from 70 Canuck Avenue
An aviation-themed play zone featuring model aircraft, a multi-use sport and basketball court, play structures, and a sharing circle.

Downsview Park Urban Agriculture
Southeast corner of Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West
In 2011, Downsview Park launched a pilot project to determine community interest in urban farming. The project turned out to be an immense success with almost 3 acres of urban farms now being cultivated onsite by the Toronto Beekeepers Collective and Fresh City Farms.

Downsview Park Urban Forest
Mid to Southwest portion of Downsview Park (70 Canuck Avenue)
18 hectares of forestland make up the Downsview Park Urban Forest, which was created with the intention of creating a more robust forest cover and variety of vegetation over time. The forest links the park to Boake's Grove, a woodlot that remains from a homestead of the Boake Family who lived here in the 1830s. The Forest contains a collection of black locust, silver maple and walnut trees. Some of the trees may have been originally planted by Indigenous Peoples, as the lands that now make up Downsview Park were at various times part of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississauga territories. Pre-European contact ceramic artifacts have also been found at Downsview Park over the years.

George Jackson House
2950 Keele Street
*Note: Private property. Please observe the house from the street only. A heritage listed building dating to the late 1880s and inhabited by members of the Jackson Family until 1967. The building is a fine representative example of a nineteenth century farmhouse, with its design blending elements of Queen Anne Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque styles popular at the time. The property is one of the few surviving buildings that reflect the development of Downsview as an agricultural community in the 1800s. The building now consists of professional offices.

Downsview United Church
2822 Keele Street
This heritage-designated Gothic Revival red brick church was constructed in 1870. The most striking architectural feature of the church is its steeple, which was constructed from a log of white pine. The building adopted its present name in 1925, received heritage status in 2003, and continues to host services for the community.

Sophie Paas-Lang Artbox
Southwest Corner of Keele Street and Victory Drive
This mural was created as part of StreetARToronto's 2015 Outside the Box Program.

Jeannie Thib and Scott Torrance 'MOTH Gardens'
1092 Wilson Avenue
The design of 'MOTH Gardens' is inspired by Downsview's history of aviation. At the core of the gardens, a limestone sculpture refers to the first airplanes manufactured in Downsview - the Gypsy and Tiger Moths. The artwork was inspired by a photograph from the 1920s showing the word MOTH written in large white letters on the turf beside the original Downsview airstrip. The sculpture's stone sections of varying heights, which also serve as tables and seating, coalesce into the letters M,O,T,H when seen from above. A vine covered steel arbour at the west side of the gardens incorporates various aircraft references. A row of windsocks marks the park's eastern end. The central grassy airstrip is defined by a line of blue solar runway lights and blue LED light strips attached under the stones cast a soft blue outline around the MOTH letters at night. Each letter of the MOTH sculpture is surrounded by a unique garden. These rose, flowering annual, scented herb and butterfly gardens are intersected by walkways patterned on Italian Renaissance garden designs in recognition of the area's early Italian immigrants. Downsview Memorial Parkette was originally dedicated in 1946 to honour local men and women who sacrificed their lives in the Second World War. A dedication to them is inscribed in the low stone wall that makes up one section of the O.

Iva Jericevic Artbox
Northwest Corner of Wilson Avenue and Dubray Avenue
This mural was created as part of StreetARToronto's 2014 Outside the Box Program.

Ancaster Park
43 Ancaster Road
This 2.8 hectare Downsview neighbourhood park features a multipurpose sports field, a ball diamond, tennis courts, a bocce court, a children's playground and a splash pad.