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Toronto police say 2 missing Highway of Heroes plaques have been found

By: The Canadian Press

Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2013 at 3:29 PM | Comments: 0

A mock-up of a Highway of Heroes plaque is shown in a photo released on is shown in a handout photo, released on Wednesday March 6, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Toronto Police

TORONTO - Two memorial plaques marking the Highway of Heroes that were thought to have been stolen have been located.

The True Patriot Love Foundation had reported the two plaques stolen from a Toronto overpass on Highway 401, saying they were taken down between December 2012 and February 2013.

But Toronto police Const. Wendy Drummond says an investigation has found that it was workers doing maintenance on the overpass who removed the plaques.

The 45- by 60-centimetre plaques have an image of people overlooking the Highway of Heroes as a soldier walks hand in hand with a child below a waving Canadian flag.

The Ontario government dedicated the stretch of Highway 401 between CFB Trenton and Toronto as the Highway of Heroes to honour soldiers killed during the mission in Afghanistan.

People regularly lined overpasses to pay respects as hearses passed by carrying the caskets of Canadian soldiers.

(CFRB)

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