Since 2013, Sanghera has been encouraging members from all the houses of worship on the street to meet every few months.

“It gives everybody a lifeline to understand that there’s so much that unites us,” says Abba Brodt, the head teacher at Richmond Jewish Day School.

Brodt shares Sanghera’s enthusiasm for the community, and has helped organise volunteer events for his students and students from Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy, next door on the No. 5 road.

“I think every parent understands what we’re trying to do, it’s not about politics, it’s about trying to do good in this world.”

Religious harmony doesn’t always come naturally, Sanghera admits.

Even though they are right next door to each other, many groups on the road still stick to what he calls their own “cubby hole,” rarely venturing outside their own cultural or religious community.

Sanghera lived through the war between India and Pakistan in 1965 and says he has seen first-hand how misguided beliefs about cultural superiority can lead to violence.

“Some people get so hung up on 'Oh my religion is better than yours!' And that’s wrong, that’s something we have to overcome.”

So Sanghera is perhaps the biggest cheerleader for the Highway to Heaven as a symbol for Canadian multiculturalism, always cooking up a new activity for people to do, be it serving a communal lunch in the Gurudwara’s kitchen, or building a float in the annual Canada Day parade.