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Ontario Highway 17. King's Highway 17, more commonly known as Highway 17, is a provincially maintained highway and the primary route of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins at the Manitoba boundary, 50 km (31 mi) west of Kenora, and the main section ends where Highway 417 begins just west of Arnprior.
The highway is the only road that connects eastern and western Canada. On January 10, 2016, the Nipigon River Bridge suffered a mechanical failure, closing the Trans-Canada Highway for 17 hours; the only alternative was to go through the United States, around the south side of Lake Superior. [11]
Opened. November 29, 2015. (2015-11-29) (westbound bridge) Replaces. Nipigon River Bridge (1937, 1974) Location. The Nipigon River Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Canada carrying Highway 11 and Highway 17, designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway, across the Nipigon River near Nipigon, Ontario.
Montreal River Hill. Coordinates: 47.242°N 84.606°W. Montreal River Hill is a hill in Unorganized North Algoma District, Ontario, Canada, located 110 kilometres (68 mi) north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario near the Montreal River. [1] Traversed by Ontario Highway 17, [2] the hill is simultaneously considered one of the best parts of the Trans ...
Ontario Highway 17A. King's Highway 17A, commonly referred to as Highway 17A or as the Kenora By-Pass, is an alternate route of Highway 17 around the city of Kenora, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was built along a former Canadian Pacific Railway right-of-way, and has two westbound passing lanes in separate parts, and one eastbound ...
Highway 17B was formerly the designation for six business routes of Highway 17, the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Canadian province of Ontario.Each generally followed the original route of Highway 17 through the town or city that it served, and was subsequently given the Highway 17B designation when a newer bypass route was constructed to either reduce traffic pressure on ...
North–south. The Island Highway (Highway 19) is an extension of Highway 1 on Vancouver Island. It runs from Nanaimo and provides access to all points northbound on Vancouver Island, including Parksville, Courtenay, Comox, Campbell River, and Port Hardy. The Patricia Bay Highway (Highway 17) starts in Victoria and heads northward through ...
The Trans Canada Trail, officially named the Great Trail between September 2016 [1] and June 2021, [2] is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways, and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans. The trail extends over 24,000 km (15,000 mi); it is now the longest recreational, multi-use trail network in ...