Ontario Highway 62
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King's Highway 62, commonly referred to as Highway 62, is a
Highway 62 was designated by the
Route description
Highway 62 begins in the community of Bloomfield at a junction with Highway 33, the
Within urbanized Belleville, Highway 62 serves as the primary north–south route. It is maintained under a Connecting Link agreement from the northern end of the Norris Whitney Bridge to the southern end of the Highway 401 interchange. The Connecting Link follows Bay Bridge Road, Dundas Street, Pinnacle Street, and Front Street North.[3][5] Prior to crossing the Moira River in downtown Belleville, Highway 62 encounters what was, until 1997, the southern terminus of Highway 37 at Station Street.[6]
After crossing over Highway 401 at the Exit 543 interchange, Highway 62 exits the urban portion of Belleville. It travels straight north until its path is interrupted by the
Within the village of Madoc, Highway 62 is maintained under a Connecting Link agreement as it passes through the centre of town. The Connecting Link begins just north of Charles Street and extends to south of Highway 7.[2][3] Now following the
Entering the larger rural Town of Bancroft, Highway 62 travels through the community of
Parting ways with the York River, Highway 62 enters
History
Highway 62 was first assumed by the DHO in 1937. On April 1 of that year, the DHO merged with the Department of Northern Development.[13] Following the merger, many new trunk roads through central and northern Ontario were designated as provincial highways. One of these was the Madoc–Pembroke Road, which became Highway 62 on August 11, 1937.[1] Originally, the route followed the Hastings Colonization Road, which was quickly determined to be too rough to upgrade. A new alignment was constructed to the east between Millbridge and L'Amable in the late 1930s. This bypass was opened to traffic on March 22, 1939.[14] Subsequently, the bypassed portion of the highway was decommissioned on April 11.[15]
At the time of its assumption, Highway 62 was split into two segments. The first section travelled from Madoc to Barry's Bay, the second from Pembroke to the community of Bonnechere, on the northwestern shore of Round Lake. It was originally planned to unite these segments by building a new highway mostly following the route of Paugh Lake Road.[note 1][16] This section was never built, and so the two sections of Highway 62 remained separated for a quarter century.[17]
Several changes occurred in the Round Lake area through the 1950s and 1960s. In 1956, Highway 521 was designated by the DHO between
Four years later, Highway 62 was extended concurrently along Highway 60 between Barry's Bay and Killaloe and north along Highway 521 to Tramore on the southeast side of Round Lake.[21][22] The remainder of Highway 521, between Tramore and Bonnechere Provincial Park, was renumbered Highway 62 in 1967, reuniting the two sections of the route.[23][24]Within Pembroke, Highway 62 initially ended at the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Pembroke Street West.[25] The completion of the Des Allumettes Bridge southeast of Pembroke, in 1957, resulted in the extension of Highway 62 to the Quebec boundary in 1960, almost entirely a concurrency with Highway 17.[26][27][28] In 1966, Highway 62 was extended south of Madoc to Highway 14 at Foxboro when several Hastings County roads were taken over by the DHO on April 1 of that year.[29]
The
As part of a series of budget cuts initiated by premier Mike Harris under his Common Sense Revolution platform in 1995, numerous highways deemed to no longer be of significance to the provincial network were decommissioned and responsibility for the routes transferred to a lower level of government, a process referred to as downloading. Portions of Highway 62 were consequently transferred to local jurisdictions in 1997 and 1998. On April 1, 1997, the section from the Laurentian Valley – Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards boundary east to Highway 17 was transferred to Renfrew County.[11] Renfrew quickly redesignated it as County Road 58.[33] On January 1, 1998, the section northeast of Highway 127 in Maynooth was transferred to Hastings and Renfrew counties. The concurrency with Highway 60 was discontinued as a result of this transfer.[12] Hastings County subsequently transferred its portion of the road to the townships of
Major intersections
The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 62, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.[2]
Division | Location | km[2] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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County Road 33 west (Loyalist Parkway) – Wellington | Highway 62 southern terminus | ||||
5.3 | 3.3 | County Road 1 (Scoharie Road) | |||
8.4 | 5.2 | County Road 4 east – Gilbert Mills | |||
12.4 | 7.7 | County Road 14 (Burr Road) – Demorestville | |||
Rossmore | 24.8 | 15.4 | County Road 28 | ||
25.8 | 16.0 | County Road 3 west | |||
Norris Whitney Bridge | |||||
Belleville | 26.9 | 16.7 | Beginning of Belleville Connecting Link agreement | ||
27.5 | 17.1 | Dundas Street | Formerly Highway 2 west; former southern end of Highway 2 concurrency | ||
28.5 | 17.7 | Pinnacle Street / Dundas Street | Formerly Highway 2 east; former northern end of Highway 2 concurrency; Highway 62 follows Pinnacle Street | ||
29.5 | 18.3 | Station Street / Front Street | Formerly Highway 37 north | ||
32.2 | 20.0 | Toronto, Kingston | Highway 401 exit 453; end of Belleville Connecting Link agreement | ||
36.7 | 22.8 | Ashley Street | Original route of Highway 14 | ||
Frankford, Foxboro | |||||
40.1 | 24.9 | Stirling, Foxboro | Formerly Highway 14 | ||
West Huntingdon Station | |||||
61.3 | 38.1 | County Road 38 (Crookston Road) – Crookston | |||
Centre Hastings (Madoc) | 68.5 | 42.6 | Shoreline Road | Beginning of Madoc Connecting Link agreement | |
70.2– 70.3 | 43.6– 43.7 | County Road 23 (St. Lawrence Street) | Highway 62 follows St. Lawrence Street for 1 block | ||
71.2 | 44.2 | Highway 7 / TCH – Peterborough, Perth | End of Madoc Connecting Link agreement | ||
Madoc (township) | 82.2 | 51.1 | County Road 11 west (Deloro Road) | ||
87.2 | 54.2 | Bannockburn Road – Bannockburn | |||
Hastings Colonization Road | |||||
Ormsby | Formerly Highway 620 west | ||||
Bancroft | 139.6 | 86.7 | Beginning of Bancroft Connecting Link agreement | ||
142.5 | 88.5 | Lakefield | Southern end of Highway 28 concurrency | ||
142.7 | 88.7 | Denbigh | Northern end of Highway 28 concurrency | ||
147.4 | 91.6 | End of Bancroft Connecting Link agreement | |||
Maynooth ; Highway 62 northern terminus; Hastings County Road 62 western terminus | |||||
County Road 62 begins | Hastings County Road 62 western terminus; Renfrew County Road 62 southern terminus | ||||
Highway 517 south | |||||
198.2 | 123.2 | County Road 515 south (Palmer Road) | Highway 515 south | ||
215.0 | 133.6 | County Road 62 ends | Barry's Bay; Renfrew County Road 62 northern terminus; former southern end of Highway 60 concurrency | ||
Highway 512 south | |||||
Ottawa | Former Highway 62 northern terminus (1982-1997); former Highway 148 western terminus (1982-1997) | ||||
County Road 58 ends | Pembroke city limits; Renfrew County Road 58 northern terminus | ||||
290.7 | 180.6 | Pembroke Street | Formerly County Road 42 west | ||
292.2 | 181.6 | Highway 41 south (Mackay Street) Highway 148 begins | Present-day Highway 148 western terminus; former Highway 62 follows present-day Highway 148 | ||
County Road 40 east (Greenwood Road) | Former southern end of Highway 17 concurrency (1960-1982) | ||||
Ottawa River | 299.2 | 185.9 | Allumettes Bridge | ||
Quebec Route 8 (pre-1972) | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- Notes
- ^ Some maps mistakenly show the route as complete between Barry's Bay and Pembroke. The official Ontario road map for 1937–1938 lists a distance of 50.2 km (31.2 mi) between Barry's Bay and Alice, while the 1940–1941 map divides the highway into two parts.
- Sources
- ^ a b "Appendix No. 3 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections of the King's Highway System for the Year Ending March 31, 1938". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1938. pp. 80–81. Retrieved February 3, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c d e Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (2008). "Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts". Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Connecting Links Program 2021–22 (PDF) (Report). Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. August 2020. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-55198-226-7.
- ^ a b c d e Google (January 10, 2021). "Highway 62 - Length and Route" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by Cartography Section. Ministry of Transportation and Communications. 1974. Belleville inset.
- ^ Young, Peter (Autumn 2004). "The Old Hastings Colonization Road". The Country Connection. No. 47. Pinecone Publishing. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
- ^ O'Connor, Joe (October 16, 2019). "An Historic Gold Mine in a Tiny Ontario Town Could be the Epicentre of Canada's Next Great Gold Rush". The Financial Post. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Tudor and Cashel, Township". Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
- ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Limerick, Township". Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
- ^ a b Highway Transfers List (Report). Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. April 1, 1997. p. 7.
- ^ a b Highway Transfers List - "Who Does What" (Report). Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. June 20, 2001. pp. 6, 13.
- ISBN 0-7743-9388-2.
- ^ "Appendix 3 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1939. p. 84.
- ^ "Appendix 3 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1940. p. 93.
- ^ Staff Reporter (August 24, 1933). "Program of Road Work in the Ottawa Valley is Announced by Dunlop". Ottawa Citizen. Vol. 48, no. 216. Retrieved January 10, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by D. Barclay. Ontario Department of Highways. 1938–39. §§ O3–P5. Retrieved November 11, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by C.P. Robins. Ontario Department of Highways. 1956. §§ O37–P38. Retrieved November 11, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ "Ontario Secondary Roads Now Designated 500, 600". Vol. 112, no. 33, 119. The Globe and Mail. February 4, 1956. p. 4.
Two new Ontario road numbers appear on the province's 1956 official road map which will be ready for distribution next week. The new numbers are the 500 and 600 series and designate hundreds of miles of secondary roads which are wholly maintained by the Highways Department. More than 100 secondary roads will have their own numbers and signs this year. All of these secondary roads were taken into the province's main highways system because they form important connecting links with the King's Highways
- ^ Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1957. p. 87.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by C.P. Robins. Ontario Department of Highways. 1960. §§ O37–38. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by C.P. Robins. Ontario Department of Highways. 1961. §§ O37–38. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by K.G. Gould. Ontario Department of Highways. 1967. §§ O37–38. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by Photogrammetry Division. Ontario Department of Highways. 1968. §§ P26–27. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ MacGregor Bay, Ontario. Map Sheet 31 F/14b (Map) (1 ed.). 1:25,000. Cartography by Surveys and Mapping Branch. Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. 1974. Retrieved May 23, 2021 – via Scholars GeoPortal.
- ^ Adam, Mohammed (January 16, 2012). "Bridge Work for the Capital". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved May 23, 2021.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by C.P. Robins. Ontario Department of Highways. 1960. Pembroke; Mileage Tables inset. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by C.P. Robins. Ontario Department of Highways. 1961. Pembroke; Mileage Tables inset. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ "Chronology". Annual Report for the Fiscal Year. Department of Highways. March 31, 1967. p. 315.
April 1—Hastings County Road between Madoc and Foxboro was assumed as part of King's Highway 62.
- ^ "Bay of Quinte Bridges". Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
- ^ Ontario Road Map (Map). Cartography by Cartography Section, Surveys and Plans Office. Ministry of Transportation and Communications. 1984–85. §§ G–H27. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Archives of Ontario.
- ^ Thomas, Mary (December 11, 2017). "Second Norris Whitney Bridge Coming". Quinte News. Quinte Broadcasting Company. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
- ^ Boswell, Randy (July 21, 1997). "On A (Back) Road to Ruin?". City. The Ottawa Citizen. p. B3. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- ^ "By-law 98-21" (PDF). The Corporation of the County of Hastings. March 26, 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
- ^ "By-law 98-24" (PDF). The Corporation of the County of Hastings. March 26, 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 14, 2018. Retrieved July 15, 2021.