Highway 27 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of

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. Being long, it runs from Highway 41 at

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to Highway 2 east of Prud'homme.

History

The present-day Highway 27 is part of the original Provincial Highway 5 alignment, a trans-provincial highway that travelled from

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and crossed the

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via ferry, while ''Provincial Highway 27'' connected Aberdeen with

Saskatoon Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, and has served as th ...

. In the late 1940s, the highway 5 and 27 designations were switched so that ''Provincial Highway 5'' passed through Saskatoon.

Major intersections

From west to east:

References

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