This mural is on a little corner building across the street from city hall. For most of my life it was a New Zealand pub, but the pub closed down a number of years ago now. At some point since then, the building got a mural showing some local history!
The area of Cambridge where this is located was a town called Galt in the pre-amalgamation days. It was the largest of the original communities and it's still the biggest part of the city. This mural shows William Dickson, Galt's founder, and Absalom Shade, a prominent citizen who did a lot of the boots-on-the-ground type development of the town.
Chris said that William Dickson (or at least this depiction of him) looks a lot like Dustin Hoffman, lol, and now I can't unsee it!
