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A ceremony is expected to be held in Toronto today to designate a section of a highway and some city streets in honour of Canada's war dead.

Mayor David Miller is set to designate parts of the north-south Don Valley Parkway and some downtown streets the "Route of Heroes."

A convoy carrying a soldier's body typically travels from CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario to the coroner's office in downtown Toronto

Highway 401, from Trenton to the Parkway, is already renamed the "Highway of Heroes" as a tribute to the soldier's final path home.

The announcement will come just hours after the death of the 147th member of the Canadian military during the eight-year Afghan conflict.

Sgt. Martin Goudreault of Sudbury, Ont., died when a makeshift bomb went on Sunday in southern Afghanistan.

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