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Ontario Highway 553
This is a list of secondary highways in Sudbury District, most of which serve as logging roads or provide access to provincial parks and isolated areas in the Sudbury District of northeastern Ontario. Highway 528 Highway 528A Highway 535 Highway 539 Highway 553 Secondary Highway 553, commonly referred to as Highway 553, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway is short, and spans only . Its only purpose is to connect the Highway 17, the Trans Canada Highway, in the community of Massey (township of Sables-Spanish Rivers) to logging areas and provincial parks north of the community. At the northern terminus of Highway 553 at Bull Lake, the roadway continues as tertiary Highway 810. The route of Highway 810 was part of Highway 553 prior to 1976, but was downgraded to tertiary highway status in that year because of its more limited traffic usage. Highway 607 Secondary Highway 607, commonly re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logging Road
A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. They are common in less-developed nations, and also in the rural areas of developed nations such as Canada and the United States. In New Zealand, and other Commonwealth countries, they may be known as metal roads. They may be referred to as "dirt roads" in common speech, but that term is used more for unimproved roads with no surface material added. If well constructed and maintained, a gravel road is an all-weather road. Characteristics Construction Compared to sealed roads, which require large machinery to work and pour concrete or to lay and smooth a bitumen-based surface, gravel roads are easy and cheap to build. However, compared to dirt roads, all-weather gravel highways are quite expensive to build, as they require front loaders, dump trucks, graders, and roadrollers to provide a base course of compacted earth or other material, sometimes maca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westree, Ontario
Westree is an unincorporated community in the Unorganized, North Part of Sudbury District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located at the end of the spur Ontario Highway 560A and lies on the north shore of Duchabani Lake about northwest of the centre of Sudbury. The community is on the Canadian National Railway mainline, and is the location of Westree railway station served by Via Rail Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via, is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada. It receives an annual subsidy from Transport Canada to offset the cost of operating .... References * Communities in Sudbury District {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 560
Secondary Highway 560, commonly referred to as Highway 560, is a provincially maintained secondary highway in the northern section of the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins in the west at an intersection with Highway 144 and the Sultan Industrial Road and proceeds east to Highway 11 at Englehart. Highway560 was established, along with many of the secondary highways in Ontario, in 1956. It was extended westward to Ontario Highway 144 in 1965. Aside from minor realignments along its isolated route, the route has remained unchanged since then. Route description Highway560 is a remote route through some of the most isolated parts of Northeastern Ontario, spanning between Highway144, where the road continues west as the Sultan Industrial Road, and Highway11 at Englehart. There are few gas stations and services located along the route, which is heavily travelled by logging trucks; warning signs are posted along the route as a reminder of this hazard. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 144
King's Highway 144, commonly referred to as Highway 144, is a provincially maintained highway in the northern portion of the Canadian province of Ontario, linking the cities of Greater Sudbury and Timmins. The highway is one of the most isolated in Ontario, passing through forest for the majority of its length. It is patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police and features an speed limit. Highway 144 was created by renumbering Highway 544 in April 1965. This was done in preparation for an extension of the short secondary highway from Cartier to Timmins, and was completed in 1970. In the mid-1980s, a new route was constructed which allowed Highway 144 to bypass the urban core of Sudbury, known as the Northwest Bypass. Route description Highway 144 is long, lying between its southern terminus at an interchange with Highway 17 west of Lively and its northern terminus at an intersection with Highway 101 west of downtown Timmins. Much of the route is isolated; Cartie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highways In Ontario
The Provincial Highway Network consists of all the roads in Ontario maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO), including those designated as part of the King's Highway, secondary highways, and tertiary roads. Components of the system—comprising of roads and 2,880 bridges —range in scale from Highway 401, the busiest highway in North America, to unpaved forestry and mining access roads. The longest highway is nearly long, while the shortest is less than a kilometre. Some roads are unsigned highways, lacking signage to indicate their maintenance by the MTO; these may be remnants of highways that are still under provincial control whose designations were decommissioned, roadway segments left over from realignment projects, or proposed highway corridors. Predecessors to today's modern highways include the foot trails and portages used by indigenous peoples in the time before European settlement. Shortly after the creation of the Province of Upper Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gogama, Ontario
Gogama is a Northeastern Ontario community that is situated on Lake Minisinakwa, 580 kilometres north of Toronto, 191 km north of Greater Sudbury, Sudbury, and 114 km south of Timmins. In the Canada 2011 Census, a population of 277 people was recorded. The community is counted as part of Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part, Ontario, Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part in Canadian census data. It is not an incorporated municipality, but is administered by a local services board (Ontario), local services board. Recreational activities in the area include hunting and fishing. History Gogama is an Ojibway word meaning "jumping fish", likely in reference to the many fish that abound the waters of Lake Miniskawa. A native trading post was established in the area in the early 18th century. From 1911 to 1914, the Canadian Northern Railway, was under construction through this area, now the Canadian National Railway, CNR. Gogama was first settled in 1917 by Arthur L'Abbé. The po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudbury District, Ontario
The Sudbury District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District. The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) is unincorporated and part of Unorganized North Sudbury District. With the exception of Chapleau, Ontario, Chapleau, all of the district's incorporated municipalities are found in the area immediately surrounding the city of Greater Sudbury to the west, east and south. North of the Greater Sudbury area, the district is sparsely populated; between Sudbury and Chapleau, only unincorporated settlements, ghost towns and small First Nations in Canada, First Nations reserves are found. Status of Greater Sudbury Because the Census divisions of Ontario, districts of Northern Ontario are unincorporated territorial divisions, unlike the county, counties or regional municipality, regional municipalities of Southern Ontario, the city of Greater Sudbury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Transportation Of Ontario
The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is the provincial ministry of the Government of Ontario that is responsible for transport infrastructure and related law in Ontario. The ministry traces its roots back over a century to the 1890s, when the province began training Provincial Road Building Instructors. In 1916, the Department of Public Highways of Ontario (DPHO) was formed and tasked with establishing a network of provincial highways. The first was designated in 1918, and by the summer of 1925, sixteen highways were numbered. In the mid-1920s, a new Department of Northern Development (DND) was created to manage infrastructure improvements in northern Ontario; it merged with the Department of Highways of Ontario (DHO) on April 1, 1937. In 1971, the Department of Highways took on responsibility for Communications and in 1972 was reorganized as the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC), which then became the Ministry of Transportation in 1987. Overview The MTO is in ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 607
This is a list of secondary highways in Sudbury District, most of which serve as logging roads or provide access to provincial parks and isolated areas in the Sudbury District of northeastern Ontario. Highway 528 Highway 528A Highway 535 Highway 539 Highway 553 Secondary Highway 553, commonly referred to as Highway 553, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway is short, and spans only . Its only purpose is to connect the Highway 17, the Trans Canada Highway, in the community of Massey (township of Sables-Spanish Rivers) to logging areas and provincial parks north of the community. At the northern terminus of Highway 553 at Bull Lake, the roadway continues as tertiary Highway 810. The route of Highway 810 was part of Highway 553 prior to 1976, but was downgraded to tertiary highway status in that year because of its more limited traffic usage. Highway 607 Secondary Highway 607, commonly re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bon Air, Ontario
''Bon'', also spelled Bön () and also known as Yungdrung Bon (, "eternal Bon"), is a Tibetan religious tradition with many similarities to Tibetan Buddhism and also many unique features.Samuel 2012, pp. 220-221. Bon initially developed in the tenth and eleventh centuries, but may retain elements from earlier religious traditions (which also used the term Bon).Kvaerne 1996, pp. 9-10. Bon remains a significant minority religion in Tibet (especially in Eastern Tibet) and in the surrounding Himalayan regions. The relationship between Bon and Tibetan Buddhism has been a subject of debate. According to the modern scholar Geoffrey Samuel, while Bon is "essentially a variant of Tibetan Buddhism" with many resemblances to Nyingma, it also preserves some genuinely ancient pre-Buddhist elements. David Snellgrove likewise sees Bon as a form of Buddhism, albeit a heterodox kind. Similarly, John Powers writes that "historical evidence indicates that Bön only developed as a self-con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 69
King's Highway 69, commonly referred to as Highway 69, is a provincially maintained north–south highway in the central portion of the Canadian province of Ontario. In conjunction with Highway 400, it links Toronto with the city of Greater Sudbury at Highway 17, via Parry Sound. It is part of the Trans-Canada Highway and the National Highway System. From its southern terminus of Highway 559 at Carling, Highway69 begins as Highway400 narrows from a four-laned freeway to a two lane highway. It travels northerly for approximately to south of the French River before widening back to a divided four lane freeway for approximately into Sudbury. The final of the route, connecting to Highway17, is a five lane arterial road that will be converted to freeway as the final phase of the four-laning. Highway69 was first designated in 1936 when the Department of Highways (DHO) assumed the Rama Road between Atherley and Washago. This short route was extended the followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
