This wall was painted freehand and was a pleasant project for the artists, Jennifer Johnson and Mandy van Leeuwen. This was to be a heritage mural but they were given the freedom to choose their own scene within the general era specified. Mandy: "We thought why not a canoe scene on a river since this was the Chief Peguis Bridge. So we have settlers as the passengers on the boats being taken to their destination by the indigenous peoples paddling who are on the land already. We've left it up to the imagination as to whom they're meeting, and the lead figure in the first boat."
Jennifer: "We wanted to give it a watercolor feel that's why we have the range of colors in the background and showing people coming to a new land being transported by indigenous people. It's a caravan type of idea. Originally we would've liked to put a third canoe off to in the distance but the length of the wall didn't allow it. We added some things; you've got the seagull happening and the plant life off in the corner and the fog with the front man in the boat disappearing off into the distance. The people on the right are a lot more muted, with the disappearance of perspective."
Mandy: "It went quickly with the two of us. It took four days to paint. We enjoyed working with the look and the reflections in the water and the water itself, the little ripples in the water and the fog making things start to disappear at the right side of the scene."
