Hurontario Street

Queensway Dundas Street Burnhamthorpe Road  Highway 403 Eglinton Avenue  Highway 401  407 ETR Steeles Avenue Queen Street Bovaird Drive  Highway 410  Highway 9 /  Highway 10 (North) Beuna Vista Drive  Highway 89 ------ Name/Course break ------ Resumes at/as Simcoe Road 124 near Glen Huron Simcoe Road 91  Highway 26 (First/Huron Streets)
North end	Side Launch Way in Collingwood
Location
Country	Brampton
Towns	Caledon Orangeville Mono Collingwood
Highway system
Roads in Ontario
Nearby arterial roads ← Mavis Road/ Chinguacousy Road; Simcoe Road 124 (North of Shelburne) Hurontario Street Airport Road  →

Hurontario Street is a roadway running in

Provincial

In addition to these two highways that followed most of its course, Highways 7 and 26 jogged along it for short distances through Brampton and Collingwood, respectively, before being rerouted.

Name and vernacular

Two examples of continued use of the "Highway 10" vernacular in Mississauga: By a business (top) and at the Hurontario & 407 Park and Ride lot (bottom); the latter being a rare case of present official usage along the street through the city.

The street's name is a

One result of the use of the terminology is the frequent conflation of Hurontario St. as corresponding to the entire length of Highway 10 to Owen Sound, due to the highway's northern terminus being in that city, which is coincidentally also situated on Lake Huron's Georgian Bay (See diagram in 'History' section below for route comparison).

History

Hurontario Street was created in 1818 by incorporating the combination of the 8th Concession leading south from the harbour on Georgian Bay that later became the site of Collingwood, and the southern part of the Toronto-Sydenham Road, which ran between Toronto Township and Sydenham (present and former Highway 10 between what is today Mississauga and Owen Sound), effectively creating a branched interlake route. As previously mentioned, parts were also alternatively called Centre Road. That name continued to be used interchangeably at least until the 1950s,^[4] and a section bypassed by former Highway 24 is still named Centre Road today.

During the construction of the interchange with the Highway 410 extension and Valleywood Boulevard, Hurontario Street was temporarily diverted between August 2007 and November 16, 2009, onto an alternative alignment. After work was complete this road section was bypassed and renamed Hutchinson Farm Lane.^{[5] [6]}

Route description

Mississauga and Brampton

The street begins in Mississauga at

At Highway 410, the Highway 10 designation begins as the street enters rural Caledon, and it has a discontinuity through the interchange as it defaults onto Valleywood Boulevard northbound and the 410 southbound, with ramps connecting the two sections. The road continues northward as the undivided four-lane Highway 10 until reaching Orangeville, where the highway leaves the Hurontario Street alignment to head for the City of Owen Sound, although it parallels it very closely for 21 km. (13 mi.) as it follows First Line WHS. The reason for the highway's chosen alignment was due to old Orangeville's location farther to the west and (in the case of the former Highway 24 segment to the north), difficult terrain through the Niagara Escarpment. In Orangeville, it runs as a residential side street and breaks at the Orangeville Reservoir. In Mono, it resumes as a minor sideroad to Highway 89, where it breaks again. It picks up again north of Boyne Valley Provincial Park through Mulmur and Clearview townships as a series of broken minor roads with several names (including its historic alternate name; Centre Rd.), running through the hamlets of Dunedin and Glen Huron. North of Glen Huron, it becomes a major road again as it joins Simcoe County Road 124 (which, along with Highway 10, carries the Orangeville-Collingwood through traffic south of this point), until its terminus in Collingwood at Side Launch Way, one block north of First and Huron Streets (Highway 26). The final block is a short one-way northbound extension built in 2009^[7] to serve a residential redevelopment project on the site once occupied by the now-closed Collingwood Shipyards.

Public transit

Hurontario St. is one of the busiest transit corridors in the

In Caledon, GO Transit runs a commuter bus route along the road to Orangeville from Brampton's downtown bus terminal. There is also partial service along the street in Collingwood, provided by Colltrans.

The base trunk routes serving the street are:

Mississauga (MiWay):

Brampton (Brampton Transit):

Caledon (GO Transit)

Collingwood (Colltrans)

The East Route^[15] operates along Hurontario for part of its run.

Landmarks

Landmarks and notable sites along Hurontario from south to north

Landmark	Cross street/location	Notes	Image
Port Credit	Lakeshore Road	Historic neighbourhood at Mississauga's central waterfront
Absolute World condominiums	Burnhamthorpe Road	Nicknamed the Marilyn Monroe Towers
Britannia Farm	Bristol Road	Preserved agricultural lands used as an educational facility. Owned by the Peel District School Board
Peel District School Board Headquarters	Matheson Boulevard
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board Headquarters	Matheson Boulevard
A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse	County Court Boulevard	Expansion of existing courthouse complex. Opened in 2000
Shoppers World Brampton	Steeles Avenue	Street changes name to Main Street though central Brampton
Gage Park	Wellington Street
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives	Wellington Street	Former Peel County Courthouse
Brampton City Hall	Wellington Street
The Rose	Queen Street
Orangeville Reservoir	Orangeville	Artificial lake within Island Lake Conservation Area
Glen Huron	Nottawasaga 15/16 Sideroad	Community within Clearview Township
Nottawa	South of Poplar Sideroad	Community within Clearview Township
Collingwood Town Hall	Simcoe Street

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