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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.
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-oriented system omitted the Spadina subway and included all of the expressways. The mixed system did not omit any roads but did omit a Queen Street subway. The transit-oriented plan included Eglinton Avenue and Queen Street subways, extending the Spadina north to Vaughan, and extending the Bloor-Danforth line east into Scarborough.
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.
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.
Secondary Highway 545, commonly referred to as Highway 545, was a provincially maintained secondary highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.This 33.9-kilometre (21.1 mi) highway connected Highway 541 at Bailey Corners near Garson with the now-abandoned community of Milnet, passing through Hanmer and Capreol.
King's Highway 29, commonly referred to as Highway 29, was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.The 52.29-kilometre (32.49 mi) route connected Highway 2 (King Street) in downtown Brockville with Highway 15 (Lombard Street) south of Smiths Falls.