MOM's Way is the name for a series of highways in the
Canadian
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provinces of
Ontario
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and
Manitoba
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, and the
U.S. state
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of
Minnesota
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. The name "MOM" is an
acronym
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for Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota, the two provinces and one state traversed by this multi-highway route. MOM's Way provides a secondary route between the cities of
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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and
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario; its population ...
.
Many segments of MOM's Way are connected to the
Old Dawson Trail
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, the first all-Canadian route between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg.
The roads included along the route are:
*
Manitoba Highway 12
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between the
Trans-Canada Highway
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(
PTH 1), east of Winnipeg, through
Steinbach and
Sprague
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* Sprague, Manitoba, a small town near the Minnesota/Manitoba border
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, to the Minnesota border.
*
Minnesota State Highway 313
Minnesota State Highway 313 (MN 313) is a highway in northwest Minnesota, which runs from its Intersection (road), intersection with Minnesota State Highway 11, State Highway 11 in Warroad, Minnesota, Warroad and continues north to its norther ...
between the Manitoba border and
Warroad
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Minne ...
.
*
Minnesota State Highway 11
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between Warroad and
Baudette
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.
*
Minnesota State Highway 72
Minnesota State Highway 72 (MN 72) is a highway in northwest Minnesota, which runs from its
intersection with U.S. 71 in Blackduck and continues north to its northern terminus at the Canada–US border in Baudette. The road conti ...
through Baudette to the Ontario border.
*
Ontario Highway 11
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from the Minnesota border, through
Rainy River and
Fort Frances
Fort Frances is a town in, and the seat of, Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The population as of the 2016 census was 7,739. Fort Frances is a popular fishing destination. It hosts the annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Cham ...
, to
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario; its population ...
.
Major intersections
From west to east.
See also
*
Old Dawson Trail
The colonization roads were created during the 1840s and 1850s to open up or provide access to areas in Central and Eastern Ontario for settlement and agricultural development. The colonization roads were used by settlers to lead them toward are ...
References
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Roads in Thunder Bay District
Roads in Rainy River District
Roads in Manitoba
Roads in Minnesota
Transport in Steinbach, Manitoba