The Canada 150 Mosaic project made it's 70th stop in Swift Current over the weekend at Market Square.

The project was launched back in 2015 to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday. The goal was to create 150 different murals to illustrate Canada's cultural and geographical diversity. The purpose of the project is to create a national mural including all the provinces and territories. It will feature over 80,000 paintings in the 150 individual murals, that when connected will show every mural connected by a train car.

Lewis Lavoie, who is the designer of the murals talked about what the inspiration for the Swift Current mural was.

"We went through several drawings and several designs, and at one time we were just thinking of doing something for Treaty 4," Lavoie said." The more we discussed and looked at different ideas we figured that if we can try and paint the wind, to try and show that this is the windy city in Canada so to do that we used turbines and kites and as for the treaty, we decided to use the treaty 4 medallions as one of the wheels."

The Canada 150 Mosaic project has already visited eight other places in the province including Moose Jaw, Warmen, Estevan, and Humboldt.

Lavoie explained what the creative process for the murals is.

"You just come up with a bunch of different designs until you finally like one. With the internet we just go back and forth with the city, there is usually a team of people at the city discussing and trying to put it together," said Lavoie." I do a lot of research; I look up stuff online to find out what the core of the city is."

Lavoie added that it took him a week to come up with the design and that with 70 done he believes they should have 100 done by the end of the year.

Around 400 people took part in making the mural which took a total of 2 days to make.

Lavoie thanked everyone who came out and painted in Swift Current.

Before leaving Swift Current on Saturday, mother nature made Lavoie's job harder as the wind sent the tent that they were working in flying, sending the mural and the 500 pieces that put it together everywhere. It made an extra long night of Lavoie as he had to resemble the whole mural from scratch.

The Canada 150 Mosaic project's next stops will be in Port Coquitlam, BC and then Aurora, Ontario.