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QEW Monument
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The QEW Monument is a memorial for the Toronto end of the QEW. The monument was designed by architect W.I. Sommerville, sculptor Frances Loring and Frances Wyle helped modelled the royal profiles and crown.
It was dedicated 1939 during the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the namesake of the highway). It consisted of a column with a crown at the top and a lion at the base. The monument was moved in the mid 1970s in order to accommodate widening of the original QEW, and is now located in the nearby Sir Casimir Gzowski Park along Lake Ontario on the east side of the Humber River (Toronto) with re-dedication in 1989 by the Queen Mother.
There is another monument on the QEW, the a decorative stone pillar on the eastern approach to the Henley Bridge in St. Catharines, Ontario. It was also dedicated by the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939. There are two monuments of the bridge (east and west approach) consisting of four regal lions and each bearing a unique shield. A pillar is located on the opposite side of each monument with a sailboat motif on the west pillar