Proper recognition

Dear sir:
My wife is a granddaughter of the Hon. Peter Heenan. On July 1, 1936 in Fort Frances, then Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn opened the highway between Fort Frances and Kenora and named it the “Heenan Highway.”
In 2001, my wife and I visited Peter Heenan’s hometown, Kenora, and drove south towards Fort Frances and could find no reference to the “Heenan Highway.” It was referred to, instead, as the “Voyageurs Route.”
We decided that some reference should be made to the original name of Highway 71 and set about to try to convince the Ontario Ministry of Transport to put up some signage on the highway which recalled the original name of it.
If you type “Heenan Highway” into your “Google” search engine, you will find a detailed article from the Fort Frances Times dated July 2, 1936 which describes the opening ceremony of the “Heenan Highway.”
The fact your newspaper wrote that article at that time, and that it was on the Internet, allowed us to find it readily and use it to convince the MTO to put up two historic plaques at rest stops about half-way between Fort Frances and Kenora.
These plaques should be erected sometime this summer.
Thank you.
On June 30, members of the Heenan family will be in Keewatin to donate an extra copy of the plaque to the railway museum located there (Peter Heenan was a CPR locomotive engineer).
Was there ever a sign or cairn located at the Fort Frances end of the highway that commemorated the opening of the “Heenan Highway?”
Yours truly,
Thomas A. Hickey
373 Lodor St.
Ancaster, Ont.