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There were ancient Ice Runners known as the ‘Oh-kwa-ming-i-nini-wug’ of Algonquin/Anishinaabe lineage that predate the current Indigenous population by some 100,000 years. They travelled across the icefields that came down to the present-day City of Toronto right up along Davenport Road. These ‘Wisconsin glaciers’ were two kilometres high and at the edge became hunting grounds for the Anishinaabe. On the Ice Runners’ hunting grounds were woolly mammoths, short-faced bears, sabre-toothed cats, woolly rhinos, giant elk, two-metre-tall, 180-kilogram beavers, dire wolves, giant Mi-gi-zi’ eagles with six-metre wingspans, giant sloths, American bison, stag moose, shrub-ox, and giant condors.

Resurge: First Timeline, Philip Cote, lead artist, acrylic and spray paint on concrete, 16′ × 30′ each (ten pieces in total), 2017. Location: King’s Mill Park, Toronto (under Old Mill Station).