Scene: Brian Pinksen Comes Home

By Torontoist

Photo by Amanda Large from Torontoist’s Flickr Pool.

WHERE: Part of the stretch of the 401 that was, in 2007, renamed the Highway of Heroes, viewed from Harwood Avenue in Ajax.
WHEN: September 2 at 4:52 p.m.
WHAT: The body of Brian Pinksen, the Newfoundland soldier killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, is driven from the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton to the Ontario Provincial Coroner’s Office in Toronto—the same route that the other men and women killed in action take.