Ontario Highway of Heroes sign.

Up for sale today is this Highway of Heroes sign, from Ontario. This sign designates a stretch of road from Highway 401 between Glen Miller Road in Trenton and the intersection of the Don Valley Parkway and Highway 404 in Toronto. This particular road is often traveled by convoys carrying fallen Canadian soldiers and their families from the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton to the coroner's office at the Centre for Forensic Sciences in Toronto. Many Canadians line the overpasses to pay their respects to the fallen soldiers and their families when such a convoy occurs. When the coroner's office moved to the new Forensic Services and Coroner's Complex at the Humber River Hospital, the Highway of Heroes designation was extended west to Keele Street in Toronto in 2013, to coincide with the move. This sign is made to the exact 2007 provincial standard that is still in use to the present day.

The sign is 18 x 28 1/2 inches inches and weighs a solid 8 pounds, 13 ounces. It is constructed out of durable, heavy steel, for an appearance that is nearly indistinguishable from the old porcelain signs that were originally used back in the day. (If you would like a different route or design, I can certainly make that as well!)

This is a high quality, heavy steel sign. Accept no imitations that may be one-third this price, but are one-tenth the quality. No cheap tin to be found here, with the wrong fonts, layouts, size, shape, or any other manner of embarrassing imperfection. This one will make even the most discerning collector stick their nose into the sign, as it looks that good from that close!

Would you like a number not seen here? Or perhaps a different style? I can of course make these signs with any city name of your choice, and not just this style, but older and newer ones, and even the classic mileage, direction, and route shield signs from the era. Anything you would like, made with unsurpassed quality right here in the good old US of A.

Figure about 10 pounds for shipping, packed with care and mailed from zip code 61833.

Thank you for your purchase!