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Veterans Memorial Roadway

Municipality/Province: Peel Region, ON

Memorial number: 35006-015

Type: Street

Address: Veterans Memorial Roadway

GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.5845031   Long: -79.5511843

Submitted by: Victoria Edwards

Peel's Dixie Road was commemorated as Veterans Memorial Roadway with the first sign unveiled in May of 2016.  Local Legion members helped choose the road for commemoration and provided input on the signage. The idea was suggested about two years previous by then mayor Marolyn Morrison. Morrison has two sons in the military and both did tours in Afghanistan. 

Over 50 kilometres of roadway is commemorated, from the foot of Lake Ontario to Peel's Highway 9 border. Dixie runs from Lake Ontario and ends at Olde Base line, but the designation extends north to Highway 9. The road names have not changed. In Caledon, where Dixie Road ends, the commemoration and signage continues along Caledon's Horseshoe Hill Road.

 


Inscription found on memorial

VETERANS
MEMORIAL ROADWAY
We Will Remember Them

Street view

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