A Self-Guided Street Art & Mural Walk in The Glebe, Ottawa

The Glebe sits between the Rideau Canal and the Queensway, with Bank Street running through the middle as the main commercial strip. Most of the neighbourhood's murals are painted directly onto storefronts: bookshops, jewellers, cafes, salons, and restaurants, concentrated along a few blocks of Bank Street and the side streets around it.

This route covers twenty documented murals across eighteen stops, starting at the north end of Bank Street near Isabella Street and working south to Lansdowne Park. Open the Ottawalls map and filter by The Glebe to follow along.

Stop 1: Groovy Glebe, 578 Bank Street

Jocelyn Galipeau painted this mural near the north end of Bank Street. The mural shows a person walking a red vintage bicycle with a guitar strapped to their back down a path toward the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park, with red tulips and a squirrel painted in the corner, on a brick wall.

Stop 2: 354 Pretoria Avenue

A short detour off Bank Street, this building carries two murals: one by Dom Laporte, and a second by Clandestinos with Bruno Smoky.

Stop 3: Pollinator Power, Bank Street and Patterson Avenue

Emilie Darlington painted this piece on a utility box at the corner of Bank and Patterson.

Stop 4: 151C Second Avenue

Jocelyn Galipeau painted this mural in 2018. It shows a large scale map of the Glebe's streets and the Rideau Canal, set against deep green leaves, with oversized white daisies tipped in purple across the foreground.

Stop 5: Bench View, 749 Bank Street

Ryan Smeeton painted this mural at Cantina Gia. It shows two figures sitting side by side on a bench, arms stretched out, looking at something outside the frame, a quieter scene than most of the murals nearby.

Stop 6: Chinese Aces Skate the Canal, 728 Bank Street

Tia Wong painted this mural in 2025 for the Glebe BIA. It shows three skaters from the Chinese Aces, the first all-Chinese hockey team in Ottawa, founded by Leslie Wong, son of Sue and Shing Wong, who ran a grocery store at 797 Bank Street in the 1930s. Wong researched the story through the Workers History Museum and Denise Chong's book "Lives of the Family" before painting it, and drew on Group of Seven landscape style for the look of the piece. The mural connects that history to the present-day Rideau Canal Skateway and the effects of climate change on it.

Stop 7: Morning Glory, 750 Bank Street

Roll Her Sleeves painted this mural outside 750 Bank Street. It features a child playing in a garden on a red brick wall.

Stop 8: Create a Spark, 790 Bank Street

Dan Metcalfe painted this mural outside 790 Bank Street. The piece centres on a single spark held in hand. Metcalfe also works as a tattoo artist and several of his murals on this stretch of Bank Street come from that same practice.

Stop 9: Wild Read, 792 Bank Street

Painted in 2018 by Vertigo with Santiago Castro, Sebastian Garcia, and Camilo Fidel Lopez, this piece sits outside a deli at the corner of Bank and Third.

Stop 10: Flying Over, 801 Bank Street

Dan Metcalfe's second mural on this block, painted outside what is now Little Victories coffee. It's done from a bird's eye perspective, looking down on the neighbourhood from above.

Stop 11: 802 Bank Street

This storefront carries the mural "The Start of a Fable," by Mique Michelle which leans into dreamlike, mythical imagery, animals and plants tangled together as though mid-story.

If you look across the street and up, you should be able to see "Redhead Republic," by Golbon Motalji which was painted in 2018.

Stop 12: Glebe's Garden, 809 Bank Street

Dan Metcalfe and Pat Buck painted this mural together outside 809 Bank. The piece carries a floral, garden theme.

Stop 13: Nature Entwined, Octopus Books, 116 Third Avenue

Dom Laporte painted this mural across the exterior of Octopus Books, the independent bookstore just off Bank Street. It weaves birds and blooming flowers across the wall, drawing on two of Laporte's earlier studio paintings.

Stop 14: Mural at 1-33 Regent Street

This 2025 piece is still listed as artist unknown in the archive, but it's one of the most graffiti-forward pieces on the route. The wall features a portrait styled after Jean-Michel Basquiat alongside a Stormtrooper helmet, worked into a dense, layered graffiti composition. If you know the artist please let us know. The team at Ottawalls absolutely love this piece and would like to know the artist behind it.

Stop 15: Mural by Daniel Martelock, 895 Bank Street

Daniel Martelock painted this mural on the south wall of 895 Bank in 2022. It's a floral piece, in keeping with his usual style of birds and brightly coloured backgrounds seen elsewhere in his Hintonburg, Mechanicsville and The Glebe.

Stop 16: Mural by Dom Laporte, 915 Bank Street

Laporte's third piece on this route, painted on the south wall of The Rowan, near the south end of Bank Street.

Stop 17: Peace Flowers, 225 Marché Way, Lansdowne Park

Tom Cech, a Belgian artist, painted this mural in 2021 on commission from the Embassy of Belgium. It pairs the yellow Peace Rose of Ghent, marking the 1814 treaty that fixed the Canada-U.S. border, with the Remembrance Poppy from John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields."

Keep the Archive Going

Browse the full list of Glebe murals on the Ottawalls map, and if you know the story behind a mural that's missing one, including several of the ones above, you can submit what you know here to help keep the archive accurate.