Downtown Murals

Mission City 1930

Artist: Dean and Christina Lauze of D’Arts

Year: 2005

Location: 33365 First Avenue

Early downtown Mission based upon a combination of historic images and the creative license of the artists. The mural project was undertaken by the Mission District Historical Society through their fundraising efforts. Donors are listed in the mural.

Railway Mural

Artist: Doug Carious

Year: Unknown

Location: 33129 North Railway

Artist’s interpretation of the injustices experienced by Japanese-Canadians during World War II including their uprooting illustrated through the inclusion of the Mission CPR Station where local Japanese were shipped off to internment centres.

Our Home Town

Artist: Dean and Christina Lauze of D’Arts

Year: 2013

Location: Mission Archives Building - 33215 2nd Avenue

District of Mission 120th Anniversary Commemorative mural illustrating keystones of the community’s development based upon historic images housed in the Archives.

Rise

Artist: Doug Carious and Mission youth

Year: 2012/2013

Location: 33265 North Railway

Creative Works, a division of Mission Youth Unlimited received a District of Mission 120 year Anniversary Grant to paint a mural depicting youth involved in different activities making the community a better place.