Ontario Highway 10

King's Highway 10, commonly referred to as Highway 10 is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway connects the northern end of Highway 410 just north of Brampton with Owen Sound on the southern shores of Georgian Bay, passing through the towns of Orangeville and Shelburne as well as several smaller villages along the way. It historically followed the Toronto–Sydenham Road, part of which later became Hurontario Street. [4]

Highway 10
Route information
Length137.3 km[1] (85.3 mi)
HistoryEstablished September 1848[2]
Designated February 26, 1920[3]
Major junctions
South endNorthern terminus of  Highway 410Caledon
  Highway 9Orangeville
 Highway 89Shelburne
North end  Highway 21 / Highway 26Owen Sound
Location
Major citiesOwen Sound, Brampton
TownsMarkdale, Shelburne, Orangeville, Caledon
Highway system
Highway 9 Highway 11

The highway was established in 1920 as one of the original provincial highways. It was extended south by 1937 to Highway 2 in Port Credit. That same year, it became the site of the first highway interchange in Canada at its intersection with The Middle Road. Since the late 1990s, the southern portion has been truncated to its current terminus north of the BramptonCaledon border.

Route description

Highway 410 ends as Highway 10 begins
The northern terminus of Highway 10 in Owen Sound
Highway 10 through Caledon

Highway 10 begins at the northern end of Highway 410 in Caledon, immediately north of Brampton. It follows Hurontario Street, a route originally carved through the virgin forests of Upper Canada in 1848. Like the pioneer route it has supplanted, the modern highway still divides many of the towns it serves, with the exception of Orangeville. Within the Regional Municipality of Peel it acts as the meridian of the concession road system, with parallel sidelines described as being east or west of Hurontario, and perpendicular concession roads divided into eastern and western segments. passing to the west of Valleywood, a suburban community on the fringe of the Greater Toronto Area. The highway presses northwest and rises gradually over the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. To the west are the Forks of the Credit, a deep glacial ravine and provincial park renowned for its scenery. It passes between several large quarries and through Caledon Village before entering Orangeville at Highway 9, where it diverges from Hurontario Street.

The highway passes to the east of Orangeville on a bypass, switching between the Hurontario St. and Prince of Wales Rd. alignments, avoiding the business district. At the north end of the bypass, the highway curves and proceeds directly north towards the village of Primrose at Highway 89. Highway 10 turns west, becoming concurrent with Highway 89 for a short distance, into the town of Shelburne. The concurrency ends in the centre of Shelburne, as Highway 10 branches north and then resumes its northwesterly course. From Shelburne to Owen Sound, the road follows the northernmost part of the former Toronto–Sydenham Road, a colonization road that predates the division of the land in this area. As such, the road follows a diagonal path relative to the survey grid. It briefly merges with Highway 6 from Chatsworth to its northern terminus in Owen Sound, where Highway 6 continues to Tobermory.

History

Historically, Highway 10 follows the 19th-century stagecoach route known as the Toronto–Sydenham Road (the southern half of which later became absorbed into Hurontario Street), which travelled north from Dundas Street (later Highway 5) in Cooksville through Brampton, Orangeville and Shelburne to Owen Sound. It was first designated as a provincial highway on February 26, 1920 when the newly formed Department of Highways assumed the road. It was later extended south when the provincial government assumed the remaining stretch to Lakeshore Road (Highway 2) in Port Credit, on the north shore of Lake Ontario.[5] At that point, the total length of the highway was 166 km.

The highway formerly turned west onto Highway 9 and ran concurrently with it through downtown Orangeville along Broadway, then turned north to follow First Street (the Prince of Wales Road alignment). In 1968, the bypass around Orangeville was completed, bypassing a short section of the Hurontario Street alignment, which is today a dead end providing access to a hotel.[6]

Colloquial reference to Highway 10 in the name of a restaurant in Mississauga

In 1998, due to the combination of increasing urbanization and the presence of the parallel Highway 410 (and a short north-south section of Highway 403) through most of the corridor, the provincial government repealed the connecting link agreement for the southernmost 31 km of the highway running through Brampton and Mississauga, which was already effectively under the control of their respective municipal governments. However, the street is still often colloquially referred to by the former highway number in these cities. In 2009, Highway 410 was connected to Highway 10 about 500 metres north of Highway 10's southernmost terminus at the border of Brampton. The 500-metre "orphaned" segment is now discontinuous, and while still technically part of the highway, is only linked to the rest of the highway via a connecting road, and is signed only as "Hurontario Street" rather than with both the street name and highway number.

Also in 2009, a major project to widen two-lane sections of the southern portions of the highway was completed, and the highway is now four lanes wide from Highway 410 north to Camilla. From Shelburne north to Owen Sound, it remains a two-lane highway with several passing lanes in hillier regions.

During winter, the northern stretches of the highway that pass through the snowbelt region of Grey County are subject to poor visibility and road closings during windy conditions or winter storms.

Major intersections

The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 10, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.[1] 

DivisionLocationkm[1]miDestinationsNotes
PeelMississauga−28.9−18.0 Highway 2 (Lakeshore Road)Southern terminus of Highway 10 prior to 1998, under a connecting link agreement through Mississauga and Brampton
Highway 2's connecting link agreement was also repealed in 1998
−26.9−16.7Queen Elizabeth WayToronto, Hamilton
−25.0−15.5 Highway 5 (Dundas Street)Highway 5's connecting link agreement was repealed in 1998
−22.9−14.2Burnhamthorpe Road
−21.8−13.5 Highway 403Toronto, Hamilton
−20.8−12.9Eglinton Avenue
−17.2−10.7 Highway 401Toronto, London
Brampton−13.5−8.4 Highway 407
−11.6−7.2 Regional Road 15 (Steeles Avenue)
−8.5−5.3Queen Street
−5.4−3.4 Highway 7 (Bovaird Drive) – VaughanHighway 7 was downloaded to the Region of Peel in 1998.
Currently Regional Road 107.
−1.0−0.62 Regional Road 14 (Mayfield Road)End of former Mississauga-Brampton connecting link agreement
Caledon0.00.0 Highway 410 south – MississaugaHighway 10 now officially begins just south of where Highway 410 ends
5.23.2 Regional Road 9 (King Street) – Terra Cotta, Bolton
14.59.0Forks of the Credit Road
18.911.7 Regional Road 24 (Charleston Sideroad) – GuelphFormerly Highway 24; south end of former Highway 24 concurrency.
Dufferin-Peel BoundaryCaledon-Orangeville Boundary28.317.6 County Road 109 west – ArthurCounty road serving as a Highway 9 bypass of Orangeville that links discontinuous sections of that highway
DufferinOrangeville28.918.0 Highway 9 east – NewmarketHighway 10 departs the Hurontario Street alignment
29.418.3Broadway / Buena Vista DriveFormer route of Highway 9
Biggles32.220.0County Road 7 east (Hockley Road) – Loretto
County Road 16 west (5th Sideroad)
Camilla38.323.8County Road 8 east (Mono Centre Road) – Mono Centre
Primrose48.630.2 Highway 89 east – AllistonBeginning of Highway 89 concurrency (and former triple concurrency with Highway 24)
Shelburne52.632.7County Road 124 north – CollingwoodFormerly Highway 24; end of former triple concurrency
53.933.5 Highway 89 west – Mount ForestEnd of Highway 89 concurrency
Dufferin–Grey boundaryDundalk72.745.2County Road 9 west
County Road 9 east – Creemore
GreyChatsworth124.577.4 Highway 6 southBeginning of Highway 6 concurrency
Owen Sound137.385.3 Highway 21 south /  Highway 26 eastEnd of Highway 6 concurrency; Highway 6 continues west concurrent with Highway 21
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Closed/former
  •       Concurrency terminus

See also

Hurontario Street

References

Sources
  1. Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (2016). "Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts". Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. Shragge 1984, p. 40.
  3. Shragge 1984, p. 74.
  4. "Heritage Walking Tour Brochure (PDF)". History of Orangeville (Page 7). Town of Orangeville. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  5. Shragge 1948, p. 74.
  6. "Google Maps view of Hwy. 10 aligned with First St. at the north end of the bypass".
Bibliography
  • Shragge, John; Bagnato, Sharon (1984). From Footpaths to Freeways. Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Historical Committee. ISBN 0-7743-9388-2.
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