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In 1917, the Provincial Highway Act was passed, giving the department authority to maintain and construct leading roads throughout the province as provincial highways (designated King's highways in 1930). The Department of Public Highways was renamed the Department of Highways in 1931 and was assigned its own minister, Leopold Macaulay, though ...
Roads and highways in Ontario were given their first serious consideration by the provincial government when the Department of Public Highways (DPHO), predecessor to the modern Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, was established on January 17, 1916. Until then, the majority of the primary roads through southern Ontario formed part of the ...
Highway 7162 Ontario Street 0.8 0.5 Highway 520 Highway 7298 Parry Sound Armour Old Highway 11 route Highway 7172 Young Street 0.6 0.4 Highway 101 Railway Avenue – Foleyet RR station Sudbury Foleyet Highway 7182 Shebeshekong Road 18.6 11.6 Highway 559 Highway 69 Parry Sound Shawanaga, Carling Old Highway 69 route Highway 7186
The 400-series highways are a network of controlled-access highways in the Canadian province of Ontario, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system.They are analogous to the Interstate Highway System in the United States or the Autoroute system of neighbouring Quebec, and are regulated by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO).
On May 25 and June 1, 1927, the Department of Highways assumed the unpaved road between Highway 7 at Reece's Corner and Highway 3 at Morpeth, via Dresden, Thamesville and Ridgetown as Provincial Highway 21, [1] [9] which was changed to the current King's Highway 21 in 1930. [10] That year, the department set out to improve the new highway.
Department of Highways, a precursor agency of the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario Department of Highways, a precursor agency of the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (Saskatchewan) In other places
In 1874, legislation was passed establishing a standalone commissioner to be responsible for the Department of Public Works. From 1896 to 1900 the Provincial Instructor in Road-Making was under the department. In 1900, both the Office of the Commissioner of Highways and the Bureau of Labour were established as part of the Department of Public ...
There are many classes of roads in Ontario, Canada, including provincial highways (which is further broken down into the King's Highways, the 400-series, Secondary Highways, Tertiary Highways, and the 7000-series), county (or regional) roads, and local municipal routes.