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A Caterpillar Diesel Model 12 motor grader levels a road shoulder before making a ditch near Arva in London Township, Middlesex County, 1947. This piece of equipment doubled as a snowplough in the winter months. Older streets in established city areas still needed maintenance. Pictured here In July 1959 is Peter Street in Sudbury.

The Burlington "Skyway" is pictured here in the final stages of its construction in May 1958. After it opened in October of that year, the Skyway became part of the Queen Elizabeth Way. Highway 54: Replacing a utility pole between York and Cayuga in Haldimand County, July 1950. During the post-war era, the Toronto-Barrie Highway (later Highway 400) was built to accommodate traffic that was clogging Highways 11 and 27 north of Toronto.