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  Highway 27 (Ontario) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was originally a King's Highway that extended from Highway 2 in Long Branch, Ontario (Etobicoke Township) to Penetanguishene on Georgian Bay in Ontario.
In the 1950s, Highway 27 was upgraded to a four-lane freeway between the QEW and Highway 401.
After the Highway 400 extension was completed in the 1980s, the section of Highway 27 north of Barrie was downgraded to a county road.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_provincial_highway_27   (372 words)

  
 Ontario provincial highway 401   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Highway 401 as part of the 400-series network Ontario provincial highway 401, which is normally referred to simply as Highway 401, is a freeway that extends across Southern Ontario, Canada.
Highway 401 begins at Highway 3, 13 kilometres from the Detroit River on the outskirts of Windsor, Ontario (not at the Michigan border, as some mistakenly assume) and ends at the Quebec border, 815 kilometres away.
Today, the stretch of highway that passes through the Greater Toronto Area ranges from 10 to 20 lanes, and the stretch between Mississauga and Brock Road in Pickering is thought to be the world's longest continuous stretch of highway having 12 or more lanes.
ontario-provincial-highway-401.iqnaut.net   (836 words)

  
 Ontario Budget 2006 - Statement: Building Opportunity
Ontario's dedicated health professionals have carried out over 31,000 additional surgical procedures since 2004–05, including procedures that are most needed by Ontarians: cancer surgeries, hip and knee replacements, and cataract and cardiac procedures.
Ontario will be at its best only when every Ontarian has the opportunity to achieve his or her full potential.
Ontario farmers need our help, and they are receiving it with more than $800 million over the last three years for farm income stabilization and support programs.
www.ontariobudget.ca /english/statement.html   (4386 words)

  
 Ontario Lighthouses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This is the oldest lighthouse in Ontario and second oldest in Canada, one of the oldest buildings in Toronto, and the oldest lighthouse on either side of the Great Lakes.
Pelée Island is accessible by ferries from Kingsville and Leamington, Ontario, and from Sandusky, Ohio.
Located at the end of Ontario Street at the east end of Killarney, adjacent to Killarney Provincial Park; the Friends of Killarney Park have a nice photo and keep an eye on the lighthouse.
www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/on.htm   (12243 words)

  
 List of Ontario provincial highways (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ontario provincial highway 2 - Tyendinaga 38, Ontario at Ontario provincial highway 49 and Hastings County Highway 2 to Marysville, Ontario at Ontario provincial highway 49 and Hastings County Highway 2
Ontario provincial highway 138 - Cornwall, Ontario to Highway 417.
Ontario provincial highway 144 - Sudbury, Ontario to Timmins, Ontario
read-and-go.hopto.org.cob-web.org:8888 /Lists-of-roads/List-of-Ontario-provincial-highways.html   (1663 words)

  
 Ontario Facts - Home Page
Ontario real GDP grew at a 2.8 per cent annual rate in the third quarter (July to September) of 2005.
Ontario's economic strength and business advantages are highlighted with sections on market proximity, labour, taxation, trade and investment.
Ontario's education structure is explained with emphasis on the post-secondary system and apprenticeship training.
www.2ontario.com /facts/home.asp   (359 words)

  
 Ontario Provincial Highways (400-427 + QEW)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The QEW was designed partially as a four-lane divided highway with a three to ten foot median strip, with the remaining less-travelled stretches as undivided highway.
In this era of highway downloading which has seen all of the Gardiner Expwy (Former Hwy 2) and a part of the QEW given over to the City of Toronto, it seems that the Don Valley will remain in city hands and Hwy 404 will most definitely not be extended southward.
The portion of the highway south of Airport Rd is maintained by the Airport Authority and not the MTO.
members.aol.com /hwys/OntHwys/OntHwys400-QEW.html   (7162 words)

  
 King's Highway 9 - O N T   H I G H W A Y S
Highway 9 is a very important Ontario Highway that was very illogically split into two sections in 1998.
Their is one exception to this west of Highway 4 (Grey Road 4) where the pavement is cracking and is only in fair condition as apposed to excellent.
Highway 9 is signed as both Highway 9 and as York Road 31 by York Region.
www.onthighways.com /highway_9.htm   (553 words)

  
 Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Ontario’s population is expected to increase by 20 per cent by 2016.
The Ontario Government, the cities of Toronto and Hamilton and the municipalities along the route funded the strip of nearly 64 kilometres of paved highway, following the alignment of Lakeshore Road.
Lacking a “highway department,” Governor John Graves Simcoe forced settlers to spend 12 days a year to clear the road of logs and, as part of their sentence, convicted drunks removed the stumps.
www.pir.gov.on.ca /scripts/map/index.asp?Action=DYK&Lang=E   (2139 words)

  
 Ontario Provincial Highways: Highway 401 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The "bypass" was a 42 km segment of freeway from the existing Hwy 2A in Scarborough near the Rouge River on the east to then-Hwy 27 (later converted into present-day Hwy 427) on the west.
The shields, in the shape and general design of the King's Highway shields, were white-on-blue (instead of the normal fl-on-white) with the large letters "M-C" in the main part of the shield and the word "Freeway" in much smaller type at the bottom, where the province's name usually resides.
In the era of highway downloading that is the late 1990s, the entire length of Hwy 401 has been retained in the provincial highway system, although many of the parallel routes, the old Hwy 2 in particular, have been lost to the cuts.
members.aol.com /hwys/OntHwys/OntHwys401Hist.html   (2289 words)

  
 Highway 401 (Ontario) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The highway was redesignated Highway 401 in 1952.
Highway 401 begins at Highway 3, 13 kilometres (8.08 miles) from the Detroit River on the outskirts of Windsor (not at the Michigan border as some mistakenly assume) and ends at the Quebec border, 815 kilometers (506.42 miles) away.
Highway 409 which branches off from Highway 401 just west of Islington to Toronto Pearson International Airport has been unsuccessful in diverting traffic volumes; the 10 lane segment between Islington and Highway 427 is highly congested as a result.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_provincial_highway_401   (3274 words)

  
 Highway 404 (Ontario) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The King's Highway 404 or simply Highway 404 is an Ontario 400-Series Highway that runs from the junction of Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto to its northern terminus at Green Lane/Herald Road in Newmarket.
Originally an extension of the Don Valley Parkway and incorporating the routing of Woodbine Avenue, Highway 404 became a provincial highway (and was completed by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation) in 1977.
North of Highway 407, Highway 404 was widened to 6 lanes all the way to Aurora Road, and the lighting system had been extended all the way to Major Mackenzie Drive.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_provincial_highway_404   (920 words)

  
 Ontario Christianity
This is the first time that MCC Ontario has undertaken a cultural-immersion project initiated by youth from the community.
At a time when more and more Christians are feeling isolated and scorned for their beliefs by secular institutions, an agency of the government of Ontario will host a "provincial Christian heritage day" in August.
Ontario composer Ruth Fazal's Oratorio Terezin is a celebration of the future of the nation of Israel that was reborn out of the ashes of the Holocaust.
www.canadianchristianity.com /cgi-bin/on.cgi?ontario/index   (3077 words)

  
 Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
         (a)    that part of a highway at an intersection that is included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the roadway, or
“highway” includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof; (“voie publique”)
“roadway” means the part of the highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder, and, where a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” refers to any one roadway separately and not to all of the roadways collectively; (“chaussée”)
www.e-laws.gov.on.ca /DBLaws/Statutes/English/90h08_e.htm   (2852 words)

  
 Winter Events and Activities in Ontario's Provincial Parks
On Saturday, December 27, have a hoot on an Owl Prowl.
Highway 60 is plowed and sanded all winter and many hiking trails are available for the cold weather visitor.
The main parking lot and viewing pods (on the highway side) are cleared of snow during the winter months.
www.ontarioparks.com /english/parkzine/art2-19-12-2003.html   (3210 words)

  
 Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Quetico Provincial Park is a protected, pristine wilderness retreat of international acclaim just north the Canada-U.S. border above Minnesota's Boundary Waters and south of Atikokan, Ontario.
Stretching 60 miles from east to west and 40 miles from north to south, Quetico Provincial Park is renowned for its rugged beauty - its towering rock cliffs, majestic waterfalls, virgin pine and spruce forests, picturesque lakes and rivers - and for the best wilderness canoeing in the world.
Quetico's many interconnecting waterways were the highway system upon which explorers sought the passage to the West.
www.ontariotowns.net /Atikokan/Quetico.cfm   (909 words)

  
 Canadian Dimension / Articles » Women Title Holders file objection to Ontario 407 ETR highway
This electronic toll highway from Oshawa to Burlington was built by the Ontario government and sold to a private company which then sold it to the Europeans.
This highway by 407 ETR and their business partners on our territory is a violation of our jurisdiction as respected by the conjunction of our constitution, Kaianereh‚ko:wa, the Canadian Constitution and the U.S. Constitution.
Finally, we demand to know how international, federal and provincial entities can violate international law and the rule of law by superseding our jurisdiction over land that we never surrendered through a treaty or any means whatsoever.
canadiandimension.com /articles/2006/07/29/598   (997 words)

  
 Finch Avenue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The road allowance was a concession road, and at one time, there were a number of older churches, schoolhouses, and cemeteries on each side of the road.
At the intersection of Highway 404 and Finch is Seneca College's Newnham Campus, one of Ontario's largest community colleges.
It ends at a cul-de-sac at Kingston Road (Durham Regional Road # 2 and formerly Ontario provincial highway 2), and the highway follows this concession line to the eastern boundary of Oshawa, Ontario.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Finch_Avenue   (1025 words)

  
 Ontario Trans-Canada Highway Route
Exit 110 Walkley Rd Exit 104 Anderson Rd Highway #27 north to Mere Bleu Park, Blackburn Hamlet, south to Metcalfe and South Gloucester
Highway #41, north to Carlsbad Springs, south to Edwards, Pana, Russell, Metcalfe
HIGHWAY ACESS: In Montreal, the major highways ("Autoroutes") are often below grade and flanked by service roads on both sides, with steep ramps off the highway and back on.
www.transcanadahighway.com /Ontario/TCH-ON-E9.htm   (561 words)

  
 Ontario Government Sites
Ontario is within days of signing on to Ottawa's $5 billion, five-year child-care program, giving the province $280 million this year to kickstart the creation of thousands of new daycare spaces.
The Ontario government’s $11 million budget investment in interpreter and intervenor services will help provide more service to people who need it, improve the quality of services and improve wages to attract and keep people who provide interpreter and intervenor services.
In the most recent development, an Ontario legislator is calling on the province's attorney general to open a formal inquiry into the contract with Accenture, including an investigation of whether the province did sufficient due diligence before awarding it and whether there were any improprieties during the bidding process.
www.canadiansocialresearch.net /onbkmrk.htm   (10227 words)

  
 Ontario Provincial Police Association - Guestbook
Your dedication and sacrifices, including your families are admired and certainly our appreciation of your service is not expressed enough by the public.
The safety Blits put on are greatly appreciated and it shows how scary all would be if you were not there to stop the aggressors who just do not get it.
God bless you all who are serving and let's not forget our heros who gave their lives for the safety of others.
www.oppa.on.ca /guestbook.asp   (3998 words)

  
 Canada Trails: Hiking in Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Relatively far enough away from highway so that night traffic is hardly noticeable at least from our campsite.
But the benefit is you are right on the Agawa Bay coastline with a tent door view of the water if you are lucky enough to get a front end campsite.
you could hear the trucks except on the furthest reaches of the trails away from the highway.
www.canadatrails.ca /hiking/on/lakesuperior.html   (2296 words)

  
 Pet Travelers Information Exhange
We will be driving from Ontario to warmer climes in the States in November with our two Newfoundland dogs and a camper.
I arrived in Canada to find my two kittens dumped in the airport baggage claim with the over-sized luggage, despite being assured at the start of my journey that they would be attended to by a member of the flight crew.
It was right on the Trans-Canada highway and it too was reasonable and very accomodating.
www.petswelcome.com /milkbone/infox6.html   (21421 words)

  
 Islington Avenue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
North of Steeles Avenue, in the City of Vaughan in York Region, Islington Avenue is also known as York Regional Road 17 and ends at Highway 27 just north of Kleinburg.
It was initially designated York Regional Road 7 but that was assigned to Highway 7 after the latter was downloaded to the regional municipality.
This page was last modified 21:45, 15 October 2006.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Islington_Avenue   (123 words)

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