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Dixie is a neighbourhood in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The community lies in the southeastern part of the city and is one of the older neighbourhoods in the city. The name of the neighbourhood dates back to the Village of Dixie at the corner of Cawthra Road and Dundas Street West in the south part of the city.
It is located at 2445 Dixie Road, just south of Dundas Street East. Like most GO stations, Dixie offers parking facilities for commuters, and allows for wheelchair-accessible train services through a raised mini-platform giving access to the 5th carriage from the locomotive; it is one of the only three stations on the Milton Line (excluding ...
Dixie Road is named for the Dixie neighbourhood (a former rural hamlet at Cawthra Road and Dundas Street in Mississauga, 2 km (1.25 mi.) to the west of the street along Dundas), which was in turn named for Beaumont Dixie, a settler who paid for the establishment of the Union Chapel, a multi-denominational Protestant church in the community.
Around the same time, the Dixie Industrial Area south of Dundas Street was being promoted for industrial development. Today Applewood is an established residential community, providing a variety of housing types including single and semidetached dwellings, townhouses, apartments and mobile homes. [5]
The following is a list of non-numbered and numbered (Peel Regional Roads) in Mississauga, Ontario.Map showing Mississauga's major streets and highways Graphic of a Mississauga traffic light-mounted street sign Some arterial roads in Mississauga are maintained by Peel Region and are numbered: A Peel Regional Road 20 sign on Queensway
Road is named for the former Village of Dixie (at Dundas Street and Cawthra Road) and settler Dr. Beaumont Dixie. [2] Double-designated as Veterans Memorial Roadway since 2016. [3] Derry Road Interchange with Highway 407 (Exit 31), (boundary with Halton RM), continues as Halton RR 7
HuffPost looked at how killers got their guns for the 10 deadliest mass shootings over the past 10 years. To come up with the list, we used Mother Jones’ database, which defines mass shootings as “indiscriminate rampages in public places” that kill three or more people.
Dundas was a prime location for hunting wildfowl, hence a "hunter's paradise," and was unofficially named Coote's Paradise. It was renamed Dundas in 1814. [1] It was named after Dundas Street (also known as Governor's Road) that passed through the village, the road in turn named after Scottish politician Henry Dundas who died in 1811. [2]