William (Bill) Armstrong's photos with the keyword: mural

This caboose at the south side of Gravelbourg depicts settlers at the railway station, with the early community in the background. The restored railway station is located nearby, and now serves as a real estate office.

Murals have become common on the walls of buildings in many Saskatchewan communities. This mural of a T. rex is in Eastend. The fossilized bones of the largest T. rex ever discovered was found in the nearby Frenchman River Valley in the 1990s. The skeleton of this T. rex is now on display in the T. rex Discovery Centre.

A mural on the garage door of a building in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. I searched through historical photos of Chiefs who lived in what became Saskatchewan, but I am unsure who this mural depicts. It might be Big Bear, but that is a guess.

A mural showing Johnny Cash, and, I think, Merle Haggard, on the back wall of a building in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. Country music is big in my home province!

Shaunavon, Saskatchewan serves a large surrounding agricultural area, so it is fitting that a mural on a downtown building would depict a farmer field scouting - checking the condition of the crop. This practices is becoming less common, however, as farmers use drones or satellite imagery to monitor their crops.

A relatively small grain elevator beside a caboose in the Franksaskois town of Gravelbourg. The town doesn't seem to promote the elevator as an attraction, although it and the caboose are well maintained. The mural on the caboose depicts settlers arriving at the railway station, which now houses a small business.

A large wall mural on a building in downtown Regina. The mural depicts Scarth Street, and by the vintage cars, I guess as it appeared in the late 1950s or early 1960s.

A mural found in a back alley in Regina. It shows a Saskatchewan Roughrider fan wearing a watermelon helmet, driving a car with the team's mascot, Gainer the Gopher, in the passenger seat. The team logo is in the upper left. The mural may have been painted in 2010, the 100th anniversary of the team's founding.

Someone painted the logo of the Saskatchewan Roughriders football club on the side of a garage near the stadium where the team plays, but included is a small figure of a white horse, the symbol of the hated Calgary Stampeders. For good measure, the name Saskatchewan below has been interrupted by a fence.

This large stone - called a glacial erratic - sits at the edge of a farmer's field, and close to the Doukhobor Caves, a National Historic Site. Doukhobor settlers lived in dug out caves on the side of the North Saskatchewan River Valley for a year or two until they could build a house. The mural depicts Doukhobor women pulling a plough, while a man at the back supervises.

This mural on the side wall of a car repair shop in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan appears to show the painter at the left waving to the figures beside the truck. The corner of the building on the left hand side is curved, which was common in older buildings.

A street side view of the mural painted on the walls of the Ukrainian Co-op store in Regina, Saskatchewan, in happier times.

The back wall and side entrance to the Ukrainian Co-op in Regina, seen from the parking lot. The mural, of course, was painted in happier times.

Found on the side of a vacant store in the village of Chaplin, SK. Do not use this image on blogs, websites or other media without permission. © 2016 William Armstrong. All rights reserved.