Ontario Highway 33

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Bloomfield
East endCollins Bay Road in Kingston
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
Highway system
← Highway 28→ Highway 34
Former provincial highways
←  Highway 32

King's Highway 33, commonly referred to as Highway 33 or Loyalist Parkway, is a

Bloomfield and travels east to the Collins Bay Road junction at Collins Bay in the city of Kingston, a distance of 60.9 kilometres (37.8 mi). The highway continues farther east into Kingston as Bath Road (Kingston Road 33), ending at the former Highway 2, now Princess Street. Highway 33 is divided into two sections by the Bay of Quinte. The Glenora Ferry service crosses between the two sections just east of Picton
, transporting vehicles and pedestrians for free throughout the year.

Originally, Highway 33 continued northeast through

Stirling, ending at a junction with Highway 14
. This section was transferred to county governments by the beginning of 1998. In 2009, Highway 33 west of Picton became the site of the first modern roundabout on a provincial highway.

In 1984,

Amherstview
in honour of the settlers that landed there in 1784.

Route description

Eastern terminus of Loyalist Parkway and Kingston Road 33 in Kingston

Highway 33, known as the Loyalist Parkway throughout its length, begins in the west at the southern terminus of Highway 62, west of which the parkway continues as Prince Edward County Road 33 to Trenton. The route begins within the community of Bloomfield. To the east it crosses several creeks then intersects Prince Edward County Road 1 at the first modern provincially maintained roundabout. East of this, the highway enters into the city of Picton.[3]

Within Picton, Highway 33 intersects the former Highway 49, now Prince Edward County Road 49. It exits the city and follows the southeastern shoreline of Picton Bay, passing the H.J. McFarland Conservation Area midway between the city and Glenora.[3]

Glenora–Adolphustown Ferry service[4]
mid-May – September
6:00 am – 10:00 am
7:30 pm – 1:15 am 		30-minute service
10:15 am – 7:30 pm 15-minute service
Winter
6:00 am – 1:15 am 30-minute service

Highway 33 has two sections, which are joined by the Glenora Ferry, an auto

Adolphustown. The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO), which maintains Highway 33, also provides the ferry service free of charge.[4]
The eastern section of the highway begins west of Adolphustown, where it passes by several Loyalist heritage sites. Now in the county of
Bath, after which it follows the Bath Road, one of the oldest roads in Ontario,[5] built circa 1785.[6]
At
Millhaven, a ferry service provides access to Amherst Island;[4] Highway 33 continues east and passes through Amherstview before crossing the county line into Frontenac County and the City of Kingston.[3]

The short section of Highway 33 within Kingston travels as far east as Collins Bay Road, in the community of Collins Bay. From this point, the road continues east as Bath Road (Kingston City Road 33), ending at Princess Street, formerly Highway 2.[3]

Highway 33 is 60.9 kilometres (37.8 mi) in length, excluding the length of the Glenora Ferry. Traffic volumes vary considerably throughout the length of the route. On an average day, over 5,000 vehicles travel the section between Bloomfield and Picton. Between Picton and the Glenora Ferry, volumes drop to under 2,000. On the opposite shore, traffic volumes grow from over 6,000 near Bath to over 11,000 outside of Kingston.[2]

History

Highway 33, also known since 1984 as the Loyalist Parkway, follows a pioneer colonial route on which the first segments were built two hundred years prior. The route connects several historical settlement sites in Prince Edward County, continuing east through Bath to what is now Kingston.

In 1784, following the

Bath, a distance of 25 kilometres (16 mi). This trail would become a section of Highway 33 nearly 150 years later.[5][6]

On June 5, 1799,

Adolphustown.[8] The Bath extension of the Danforth Road (1802)[9] provided access to a key early colonial road, the Bath Road, which had long joined Bath to Kingston
.

Sporadic privately operated ferry services between Adolphustown and Stone Mills (Glenora) were initially a primitive affair. In October 1835 a Mr. Clark from Cobourg tipped out of the bark canoe ferrying him to Glenora and was buried without an inquest; a year earlier, a Rev. Mathew Miller from Cobourg had drowned after falling through the February ice.[10] The road itself was no better, barely adequate for horse and rider but unfit to run stagecoach lines.

This road would serve as the initial

Cobourg and Grafton) but then blazing a more northerly route through Belleville and Napanee. Like the Danforth Road before it, this 1817 York Road was initially a muddy dirt road; it would, however, suffice to establish reliable scheduled stagecoach runs by which mail and passengers could make the two-day trip from Kingston to Toronto and permit enterprises (such as the branches of the newly established Bank of Montreal
) safe and timely delivery of documents and valuables. By 1839, the Napanee-Kingston route was being improved for use as a gravel toll road.

While the area around Bath and the Bay of Quinte would remain a major agricultural region, the pattern of redirecting Kingston-Toronto traffic further inland which started with construction of the Kingston Road (1817) would be repeated with the Grand Trunk Railway (1856) and ultimately Highway 401 (1964).

Due to its historic role in early colonisation and its prime waterfront scenic location, the original route from Kingston westward through Bath and the Quinte Region would be commemorated in 1984 by Queen Elizabeth as the Loyalist Parkway.

Ironically, the first section of Highway 33 to be assumed as provincial highway is not part of the commemorated Loyalist Parkway. On July 9, 1930, the

Department of Highways assumed the Trenton–Stirling Road as King's Highway 33, a distance of approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi).[1]
In July 1934, as part of a depression-relief effort, the Carrying Place Trail through Prince Edward County and the United Counties of Lennox and Addington was assumed as an extension of Highway 33. (The section between Trenton and Glenora was assumed on July 4, 1934, the section between Adolphustown and Kingston on July 11.)[11] The provincially operated ferries, as the first to operate without a toll on the route, entered service after 1936.[12]

In 1984, Queen Elizabeth toured the Kingston area as part of its two hundredth anniversary, attending several events and ceremonies through her visit. On her final day in the region, she dedicated the Loyalist Parkway in honour of the settlers that landed there in 1784. The ceremony was held in Amherstview on September 27, 1984.[13]

In 1998, all portions of Highway 33 west of Ontario Highway 62, Bloomfield or east of Collins Bay Road, Kingston were decertified as provincial highway and downloaded as county or city roads.

The Highway 33 and Prince Edward County Road 1 roundabout in mid-construction

In 2009, the intersection of Highway 33 and Prince Edward County Road 1 (Scoharie Road) near Picton saw the introduction of a traffic roundabout, the first ever constructed on a provincial highway in the province, to replace the at-grade intersection.[14] The MTO felt that the area had reached its operational threshold due to high tourist and recreational activity, particularly during the busy summer months, and so felt a traffic roundabout was needed.[15]

The engineering and consulting firm Morrison Hershfield was retained to undertake the detail design for the realignment and reconfiguration of the existing intersection at Highway 33 and Country Road 1 into a single lane roundabout with a central island and truck apron. The assignment included highway engineering, drainage and hydrology engineering, electrical engineering, public consultation, and traffic engineering.[15] The roundabout was officially opened on July 17, 2009.[14]

Major intersections

The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 33, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.[2] 

DivisionLocationkm[2]miDestinationsNotes
County Road 14 (Front Street / North Street)
Former Highway 33 northern terminus; formerly Highway 14; former Highway 33 follows County Road 8 west
−69.0−42.9 County Road 8 west (Front Street)
 
County Road 33
begins		Former Highway 33 follows County Road 33 south
Municipal Road 33
begins		Quinte West city limits; Hastings County Road 33 southern terminus; Quinte West Municipal Road 33 northern terminus;
−48.7−30.3 
Toronto
Highway 401 exit 525
−44.6−27.7 
Municipal Road 2 east (Dundas Street) – Belleview
Formerly Highway 2 east; former northern end of Highway 2 concurrency
−44.2−27.5 
Municipal Road 2 west (Dundas Street) – Brighton
Formerly Highway 2 west; former southern end of Highway 2 concurrency
County Road 33
begins		Quinte West city limits; Quinte West Municipal Road 33 southern terminus; Prince Edward County Road 33
 −15.7−9.8 County Road 20 westOrientation changes from north-south to east-west
County Road 33 ends
Prince Edward County Road 33 eastern terminus; Highway 33 western terminus; beginning of Bloomfield Connecting Link agreement[16]
0.40.25 County Road 12 south (Stanley Street)
1.00.62 County Road 30 north (Corey Street)
2.11.3End of Bloomfield Connecting Link agreement[16]
 2.71.7 County Road 32 south
Warings Corner
4.83.0 County Road 1 (Scoharie Road / Sandy Hook Road)Roundabout
Picton6.84.2Mill StreetBeginning of Connecting Link agreement
7.54.7 County Road 4 west (Talbot Street)
 County Road 10 south (Lake Street)
8.65.3 
County Road 49 north (Main Street)
Formerly Highway 49 north
8.95.5 County Road 8 east (Union Street)
9.25.7 County Road 22 south (Church Street)
9.55.9End of Connecting Link agreement
Glenora16.510.3 County Road 7 east
Bay of Quinte17.010.6 Glenora Ferry
Lennox and AddingtonGreater Napanee21.813.5 County Road 8 east
36.622.7 County Road 21 north
Adolphustown
Bath
Connecting Link agreement
44.427.6 County Road 7 north (Church Street)
46.428.8End of Bath Connecting Link agreement
48.129.9 
Highway 133
north
50.731.5 County Road 26 north (Jim Snow Drive)
55.034.2 
Amherstview
Road 33
begins		Highway 33 eastern terminus; Kingston Road 33 western terminus
Kingston60.937.8Collins Bay RoadBeginning of former Kingston Connecting Link agreement
68.942.8 
Road 2 (Princess Street)
Formerly Highway 2; former Highway 33 eastern terminus; Kingston Road 33 eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Closed/former
  •       Route transition

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Appendix 5 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections of the King's Highway System for the Years 1930 and 1931". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1932. pp. 76–78. Retrieved February 2, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b c Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (2016). "Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts". Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-55198-226-7
    .
  4. ^ a b c Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. "Kingston Area Ferry Information". Government of Ontario. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
  5. ^ a b McKendry, Jennifer. "Chronology of the History of Kingston". Kingston Historical Society. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-919303-09-9
    .
  7. ISBN 0-7743-9388-2
    .
  8. ^ William Canniff, Great Britain. Army. King's Royal Regiment, 2nd Battalion (1869). History of the settlement of upper Canada (Ontario): with special reference to the bay Quinté. Dudley & Burns.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Ron Brown (2010). From Queenston to Kingston: The Hidden Heritage of Lake Ontario's Shoreline. Dundurn Press.
  10. ^ "Early History of the Glenora Ferry". Archives and Collections Society, Picton. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  11. ^ "Appendix 4 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1935. p. 119.
  12. ^ "Glenora Ferries". Archives and Collections Society, Picton. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  13. ^ Canadian Press (September 28, 1984). "Battle Re-enacted for Queen, Philip". The Leader–Post. Regina, Saskatchewan. p. A2. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
  14. ^ a b Highway 33 Roundabout, Ontario Ministry of Transportation.
  15. ^ a b "Highway 33 Roundabout Project Page". Morrison Hershfield. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
  16. ^ a b Contract Management & Operations Branch (2011). Highway Connecting Link List (Report). Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. p. 2.

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