Major Mackenzie Drive is a major arterial road running east to west in northern York Region. The road was formally a rural road, but with growth in York Region expanding beyond Highway 7, the road is now heavily travelled and becoming more of an urban throughfare. York Regional Municipality, also called York Municipality or York Region, is a municipality in south-central Ontario, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto. ...
The road was laid out during the planning by early settlers in the region to divide the land into farms. Much of the farmland is now gone, as residential development expands in York Region towards the north. Environmentalist and urban planners want the region and province to halt the development of land north of the street and in particular to the wellbeing of the Oak Ridges Moraine. York Regional Municipality, also called York Municipality or York Region, is a municipality in south-central Ontario, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto. ... The Oak Ridges Moraine is a geographic area in southern Ontario, Canada stretching from Milton to Rice Lake, near Peterborough. ...
Streets to the north and south of 16th Avenue: 16th Avenue is a east-west concession road in York Region and runs in the Towns of Markham, Richmond Hill and the city of Vaughan. ...
From Airport: take Highway 401 East to Highway 400 North, exit at MajorMackenzieDrive East (at Canada's Wonderland and keeping to the right) to Yonge Street, turn left to north on Yonge Street, the School is located on your right side a few stop lights North of Elgin Mills Road.
From 401 from the West: take Highway 400 North, exit at MajorMackenzieDrive East (at Canada's Wonderland and keeping to the right) to Yonge Street, turn left to north on Yonge Street, the School is located on your right side a few stop lights North of Elgin Mills Road.
From 401 from the East: take Highway 404 North, exit at MajorMackenzieDrive West to Yonge Street, turn right to North, the School is located on your right side a few stop lights North of Elgin Mills Road.
MajorMacKenzie, a lifelong conservationist, was able to secure 1,000 pine seedlings from the Department of Lands and Forests and, under his supervision, they were planted and flourished.
This report is a result of a meeting the writer had with Major Alex MacKenzie, at which time we received all the records he had in his possession, and with conversations with him from time to time over a period of 30 years.
MajorMacKenzie died in 1970, having served his country for 23 years as a member of Parliament.
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