The Trans-Canada Highway

Photo by Michael Kelly - March 13, 2006

Photo by George Sawyn - July 22, 2007

Plaque Location

The District of Algoma
The Township of The North Shore
On a cairn near Chippewa Falls at the approximate midpoint of the route, Highway 17, about 13 km east of Batchawana Bay

Plaque Text

This plaque stands approximately at the halfway point of the Trans-Canada Highway, which runs from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia. The highway's construction, in conjunction with the provinces, was authorized by the federal parliament in 1949. The official opening for through traffic of this 7,820 km route, of which about 2,338 km are within Ontario, took place on September 3, 1962. However, with a completion of a section of Highway 11 between Longlac and Hearst in 1944, it had been possible previously to cross Ontario from Quebec to Manitoba. The opening of the Trans-Canada Highway provided a shorter first-class route drawing together widely separated regions of Ontario.

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