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Mural Showing Kids Protest During Candy Bar War

Painted mural of young girls in colorful dresses standing in front of a shop entrance, Dwyer’s Confectionary, licking 5c ice cream cones while holding placards protesting against 8c candy bars. The left 1/5 of the mural shows a partial page of a song’s music score proclaiming ‘we want a 5 cent bar’.

Source: Chemainus Festival of Murals Society.  Photo: Quentin Goodbody

Date: 2017

Chemainus, 14 kilometres south of Ladysmith, is famous for colourful murals that adorn walls throughout the town with images recalling local past events and vistas. This mural, number C5 of over 70 murals in the town, painted in 2017 by artists Kerry Onoshuko, Stephen Robinson, Stephen Sylvester, Anjilee Manhas and Gabi Jones of Chemainus Secondary School, is based on a photograph taken by local newspaper reporter Mollie Robinson of her niece, Nancy Robinson, and a few friends protesting in front of Dwyer’s confectionary during the Candy Bar War by licking ice creams instead of eating the suddenly more expensive chocolate.