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Highway 11 and Yonge Street have never been one in the same, especially after the downloading of Highway 11 south of Barrie by the Harris government in the late s.
In , Yonge Street was added to the Ontario provincial highway system as Highway 11, which extended from Downtown Toronto as far as the end of Simcoe County, at the Severn River north of Orillia, where an unnumbered highway continued through the unincorporated Districts of Muskoka, Parry Sound and Nipissing to North Bay.
During the Second World War, the section between Nipigon and Hearst was completed; it finally provided a complete provincial highway link between the Manitoba and Quebec borders and formed a crucial part of the Trans-Canada Highway until the more direct Highway 17 link from Sault Ste. Marie to Wawa was completed in the s. Indeed, Highway 11 could still claim as the longest signed route within a sub-national entity but several national routes, such as US Interstates and US highways, are longer.
In fact, the last reference to Yonge Street on Highway 11 north of Holland Landing is a short section of former Highway 11 in south Barrie. The original Yonge Street , named for a friend of the Simcoe family, did not have such lofty ambitions.
From Lake Simcoe, a water route via Lake Couchiching and the Severn River provided a rudimentary alternative route for the defense of Upper Canada and British possessions from the Americans and a early settler route. Other early roads radiating from Toronto that were started after Yonge were less direct routes — Dundas street struck west to the town of Dundas from the corner of present-day Queen and Ossington, but later extensions continued west as far as London.
Danforth Road and the successor Kingston Road provided the early pioneer route to points east. By the time Highway 11 was established a over century later, Yonge Street was a major route with regular towns and villages from Aurora south.
In , the new Highway 11 branched north-west of Yonge Street in Holland Landing on a route built in to serve Bradford, Barrie and points north mostly using existing concession-system roads. After , Highway 11, including most of Yonge Street, was formally downloaded in its entirety south of Barrie.
Today, north of Newmarket, a modern 4-lane highway leaves the Yonge Street alignment west to Bradford. To continue on Yonge Street requires a right turn off the through Highway The Merc's also got a host of safety equipment that will keep us between the ditches.
We patrol the whole of Yonge Street. It's a monster. Before leaving the city, we take in the Hudson's Bay Company, which is arguably the single most important entity in Canadian history. It was mainly Scottish fur traders and pioneers established remote outposts and claims to the vast Canadian bush that kept Britain's hold on this immense expanse of wilderness.
The theatre opened when Yonge Street was a thoroughfare for horses and carts. Past here you would have seen the wealth of the country come by," he explains. The next day's a long drive, even by Canadian standards. Cochrane to Thunder Bay -- the largest city outside Toronto on Yonge Street -- is just short of miles. This is where the Merc really comes into its own. With such massive distances to cover, drivers routinely fall asleep at the wheel on Canadian roads - our E-Class has a system that rouses you with a buzzer and a picture of a coffee cup if it senses you getting drowsy.
Likewise, if the car begins to wander on the road, the steering wheel vibrates to warn you that you're going off course.
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