Ottawa's stoplight control boxes have been used as popular place to display art - for fun, to highlight historical aspects of their locations.
In the Westboro area, the local Business Association created a nature walk with images on the boxes.
The Byward Market and Centretown areas host traffic boxes displaying nearby history.
The area a little further east has boxes covered with less serious images.
Four boxes are decorated with fanciful images of ladies..
Outside a major hospital is a large scale paper requisition form cover the traffic control box.
Along the Vanier Parkway are two decorated boxes
Another box, in a more suburban location, seems to have a young person's touch....
Hintonburg has a number of utility (Bell?) boxes with murals on them
Stoplight control box at entrance to Lansdowne Park celebrates lacrosse at Lansdowne
At Bank and Sparks Streets
In the middle of the traffic lanes at Rideau and Colonel By Drive and on the right at Bank and Patterson in the Glebe
While not in Ottawa, but in Wakefield, I thought the face and the explicit name on the box deserved to be in the collection.
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