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Road signs marking the Opeongo Road. The colonization roads were created during the 1840s and 1850s to open up or provide access to areas in Central and Eastern Ontario for settlement and agricultural development. The colonization roads were used by settlers to lead them toward areas for settlement, much like modern-day highways.
Highway 114 – Highway 3 (Former alignment, now Essex County Road 34) in Maidstone, Ontario (now a part of Tecumseh, Ontario, to Highway 98 (Now Essex County Road 46). Part of road is still signed as "Old HWY 114" from Manning Road (Essex County Road 19) to Provincial Road (Essex County Road 46). Highway 116 – Hudson to Highway 72 in Patricia.
Roads in Ontario The Ferguson Highway was a 260 mi (420 km) long gravel trunk road in Ontario , Canada . Built between 1925 and 1927 from the city of North Bay to the town of Cochrane , it was created to connect the growing agricultural and mining communities of Northern Ontario with other areas further south.
In 1997 and 1998, the province of Ontario undertook a major highway decommissioning project, dropping over 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi) of road from the provincially maintained highway system. Most of the former highways are now numbered as county roads. See also List of former provincial highways in Ontario.
The road was finished in November 1917, 5.5 metres (18 ft) wide and nearly 64 kilometres (40 mi) long, becoming the first concrete road in Ontario. [77] The highway became the favourite drive of many motorists, and it quickly became a tradition for many families to drive it every Sunday. [79]
This category is for listing trunk roads in the Canadian province of Ontario or Upper Canada, built into the hinterland, during the nineteenth century, mostly before 1880. Portions of some of these roads may be in use to-day, as county roads or provincial highways.
The Cameron road, now mostly encompassed by Highway 35, provided access from Lake Ontario to the northern limits of Victoria; The Bobcaygeon Road, begun in 1853, traversed north and south along the present-day eastern boundary of the region, and is mostly encompassed by former Highway 121;
King's Highway 5, commonly referred to as Highway 5 and historically as the Dundas Highway and Governor's Road, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The east–west highway travels a distance of 12.7 km (7.9 mi) between Highway 8 at Peters Corners , north of Hamilton , and Highway 6 at Clappison's Corners .