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Mostly serves as the boundary between Peel and Halton Regions and between Peel Region and Wellington County, except for the section between Dundas Street and Highway 401, where the Regional line moves west and the road is fully in Peel Region (Mississauga).
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.
Dixie is the only north–south road (apart from the baseline, Hurontario St.) that was entirely within the historic Toronto Township that was surveyed to run the full distance through the township, and was designated Third Line East. The Mississauga Transitway's Dixie Station is located on the street's west side, just north of Eastgate Pkwy.
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.
The climate of Mississauga is officially represented by Pearson International Airport but conditions can differ depending on location: fog tends to be more common along the lakeshore and in the Credit River Valley at certain times of year, particularly during the autumn. The southwestern side of the city (Clarkson) is usually significantly ...
Dixie Road is designated Peel Road 4 (and also, as of 2016, Veterans Memorial Roadway), [47] and is the easternmost street in the city to continue south through Mississauga all the way to Lake Ontario due to Peel's eastern boundary narrowing from north to south.
Rockwood Village Welcome Sign. Rockwood Village is a neighbourhood in the eastern part of the City of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Peel.Its approximate boundaries are Eglinton Avenue in the north, Burnhamthorpe Road in the south, the Etobicoke Creek (the city limits of Mississauga) on the east and Dixie Road on the west.
The MTO still maintains a 1.1-kilometre (0.68 mi) portion of Dundas Street at the Highway 407 interchange in Burlington, a 400-metre (440 yd) portion at the Highway 403 interchange on the Oakville–Mississauga boundary, and a 1.9-kilometre (1.2 mi) portion at the Highway 427 interchange in Toronto. [1]