Ontario Highway 9
 Highway 9 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byMinistry of Transportation of Ontario | ||||
| Length | 119.0 km[1](73.9 mi) | |||
| Existed | February 26, 1920[2]–present | |||
| Western segment | ||||
| West end |  Highway 21–Kincardine | |||
| East end |   Highway 23/Highway 89–Harriston | |||
| Eastern segment | ||||
| West end |  Highway 10–Orangeville | |||
| East end |  Highway 400(nearNewmarket) | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Ontario | |||
| Towns | Kincardine,Walkerton,Mildmay,Clifford,Harriston,Orangeville,Mono Mills | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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King's Highway 9,commonly referred to asHighway 9,is aprovincially maintained highwayin theCanadianprovince ofOntario.Highway 9 has been divided into two segments since January 1, 1998, when the segment betweenHarristonandOrangevillewas downloaded to the variouscountiesin which it resided. The western segment of the highway begins atHighway 21inKincardine,near the shores of Lake Huron. It travels 73 km (45 mi) to the junction ofHighway 23andHighway 89in Harriston. The central segment is now known asWellington County Road 109andDufferin County Road 109.AtHighway 10in Orangeville, Highway 9 resumes and travels east toHighway 400.The highway once continued east to Yonge Street inNewmarket,but is now known asYork Regional Road 31.
Highway 9 was first assumed into the provincial highway system on February 26, 1920 as theArthur–Kincardine Road.It was extended toCookstownin the early 1930s via Orangeville andShelburne,creating a short lived concurrency with Highway 10. In 1937, the road between Orangeville andSchombergwas designated part of Highway 9. The concurrency was discontinued, and the remainder became Highway 89. In 1965, Highway 9 was extended to Newmarket along Davis Drive.
Route description
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Highway 9 begins at the edge of Kincardine near the eastern shoreline of Lake Huron. The roadway continues west past Highway 21 to the lake as Broadway Street. To the east of Highway 21, the highway travels along aconcession roadfor 40 km (25 mi), through theSaugeen Conservation Landsto the town ofWalkerton.Within Walkerton, Highway 9 turns south at a junction withBruce County Road 4.It travels south to the village ofMildmay,where it curves to the south-east. The highway continues in this direction through the villages ofCliffordand Harriston, forming the centre of a thin band of farmland oriented at a 45-degree angle to the surrounding land. In the centre of Harriston, Highway 9 ends at a four way junction. Highway 89 travels north-east from this location, while Highway 23 travels south-west. Highway 9 formerly continued south-east, but is now known as Wellington County Road 109 past this junction.[3]
At Highway 10 in Orangeville, Highway 9 resumes and travels east to Highway 400, crossing theNiagara Escarpmentalong the way. Highway 9 acts as a dividing line between several municipalities and counties, and also divides the different survey grids. Highway 9 is mostly two lanes wide in this section; however, there are frequent passing zones, and the highway usually widens up to 4 lanes at major junctions, such as Airport Road in Mono Mills, Highway 50, and Highway 27. From Canal Road to the transition to York Regional Road 31, Highway 9 widens to 4 lanes. The highway once continued east to Yonge Street inNewmarket,but this section is known as York Regional Road 31. Highway 9 ends at an interchange with Highway 400. A commuter parking lot is provided for carpooling.[3]
History
[edit]The portion of Highway 9 between Kincardine and the junction with Yonge Street in Walkerton was built originally as the Durham Settlement Road or Durham Road for short. The Durham Road was surveyed and constructed between 1849 and 1851. It extended from the border between present-dayGrey Highlands,Grey CountyandClearview,Simcoe County,south of Singhampton, throughFlesherton(on the then Toronto–Sydenham Settlement Road, today Highway 10),Durham(on the Garafraxa Settlement Road, todayHighway 6,and one reason the road took its name),Hanoverand Walkerton to Kincardine.[4][5] The western section from Kincardine to Walkerton is today Highway 9, and the other sections to the east were at one point part ofHighway 4,and todayBruce County Road 4andGrey County Road 4.[6]
On February 26, 1920, the Arthur–Kincardine Road was designated as a provincial highway. It connected what would become Highway 6 with Kincardine, on the shores of Lake Huron. In August 1925, the road was numbered as Highway 9, alongside the other existing provincial highways. The route was extended to Cookstown in the early 1930s. The road between Arthur and Orangeville was assumed as part of Highway 9 on March 12, 1930; the road between Shelburne and Cookstown was assumed on May 27, 1931.[7] The two roads were connected by creating a concurrency along Highway 10. On February 10, 1937, the road between Orangeville and Schomberg was designated part of Highway 9.[8] To alleviate the forked path of the highway, the concurrency with Highway 10 was discontinued and the road between Shelburne and Cookstown was renumbered as Highway 89. By October 1963, Davis Drive was built west of Newmarket, across the Holland Marsh to Schomberg. On July 23, 1965, Highway 9 was extended to Newmarket along Davis Drive, bringing its total length to 191.7 km (119.1 mi).[9]
A long-standing issue through most of the history of Highway 9 is theOrangeville Bypass,the proposal for a route for trucks and other through traffic to bypass the central business district of Orangeville. In the 1960s, the Highway 10 bypass was constructed. At the same time, Highway 9 was rerouted from its straight route to meet the new bypass, creating Buena Vista Drive as a result. Starting in 1978, numerous plans were formulated for a southern bypass of Broadway, none of which came to fruition.[10][11] Orangeville eventually resorted to constructing the road themselves, completing several kilometres before localMember of Provincial Parliamentand premierErnie Evescontributed C$7 million of provincial funding to the project.[12] The 6.8 km (4.2 mi) bypass was finally opened to traffic on August 3, 2005.[13]
On January 1, 1998, the province transferred sections of Highway 9 between Harriston and Orangeville toDufferin CountyandWellington County,creating a 67.7 km (42.1 mi) gap between sections of the highway. This transfer has been widely contested since it took place, often used as an example for the hastily executed highway transfers in Ontario.[14][15] On September 1, 1999, the Regional Municipality of York assumed responsibility for the section of Highway 9 between Highway 400 and Yonge Street.[16]
Major intersections
[edit]The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 9, as noted by theMinistry of Transportation of Ontario.[1]
| Division | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes | |||
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| Bruce | Kincardine | 0.0 | 0.0 | Highway 21–Port Elgin,Goderich | Highway 9 western terminus | |||
| 8.2 | 5.1 |  County Road 7 south | ||||||
| Huron-Kinloss | 18.0 | 11.2 |  County Road 1 | Kinloss | ||||
| Brockton | 26.6 | 16.5 |  County Road 4south County Road 20 north | FormerlyHighway 4south; former western end of Highway 4 concurrency | ||||
| 33.8 | 21.0 |  County Road 12 south | ||||||
| 35.9 | 22.3 |  County Road 3 | ||||||
| South Bruce | 40.0 | 24.9 | County Road 4north (Yonge Street) | Walkerton;formerlyHighway 4north; former western end of Highway 4 concurrency | ||||
| 48.3 | 30.0 | County Road 3north | Mildmay | |||||
| 48.7 | 30.3 |  County Road 28 (Absalom Street) | ||||||
| Huron |
No major junctions | |||||||
| Huron–Wellingtonboundary | Howick–Mintoboundary | 61.3 | 38.1 |  Huron County Road 35/Wellington County Road 1(West Heritage Street / Howick–Minto Line) | ToGrey County Road 10 | |||
| Wellington | Minto | 62.8 | 39.0 |  County Road 2west (Allan Street East) | Clifford | |||
| 63.0 | 39.1 | County Road 2east (Mill Street East) | ||||||
| 72.8 | 45.2 | Highway 23south –ListowelHighway 89east –Mount Forest Wellington County Road 109begins | Harriston;end of western segment; formerHighway 87west /Highway 89west; continues as County Road 109 | |||||
| Wellington–Perthboundary | Minto–Mapleton–North Perthboundary | 84.8 | 52.7 |   Wellington County Road 123west /Perth County Line 93west –PalmerstonWellington County Road 7south –EloraToWellington County Road 9south /Perth County Road 140south | Teviotdale;formerlyHighway 23south via present-day Wellington County Road 123 / Perth County Line 93 | |||
| Wellington | Wellington North | 103.2 | 64.1 |  Highway 6–Owen Sound,Guelph | Arthur | |||
| Wellington–Dufferinboundary | Wellington North–Grand Valleyboundary | 114.3– 115.1 | 71.0– 71.5 | Wellington County Road 109endsDufferin County Road 109begins | Wellington County Road 109 / Dufferin County Road 109 concurrency for 0.8 km (0.5 mi) | |||
| Dufferin | Grand Valley–East Garafraxaboundary | 121.7 | 75.6 |  County Road 25 north –Grand Valley | FormerlyHighway 25north; former western end of Highway 25 concurrency | |||
| Amaranth–East Garafraxaboundary | 124.6 | 77.4 |  County Road 24 south | FormerlyHighway 25south; former eastern end of Highway 25 concurrency | ||||
| Orangeville | 136.0 | 84.5 | County Road 109east (Reiddell Road / Orangeville Bypass) | County Road 109 follows Reiddell Road / Orangeville Bypass; former Highway 9 continues on Broadway | ||||
| 136.0 | 84.5 | John Street | FormerlyHighway 136south; toRegional Road 136south | |||||
| Dufferin–Peelboundary | Orangeville–Caledonboundary | 140.7 | 87.4 | Highway 10north –Shelburne,Owen Sound | Formerly eastern end of Highway 10 /Highway 24concurrency | |||
| 141.2 | 87.7 | Highway 10south –Brampton | Beginning of eastern segment; formerly western end of Highway 10 / Highway 24 concurrency | |||||
| Mono–Caledonboundary | 149.8 | 93.1 |   Peel Regional Road 7south /Dufferin County Road 18north (Airport Road) | Mono Mills | ||||
| Simcoe–Peelboundary | Adjala-Tosorontio–Caledonboundary | 154.9 | 96.3 |  Regional Road 8south (The Gore Road) | ||||
| 151.5 | 94.1 | Mono–Adjala Townline | Highway 9 crosses theNiagara Escarpment | |||||
| 158.7 | 98.6 |  Peel Regional Road 50south –Palgrave,Bolton Simcoe County Road 50north –Alliston | FormerlyHighway 50 | |||||
| New Tecumseth–Caledonboundary | 164.4 | 102.2 |  County Road 10north (Tottenham Road) –Tottenham | |||||
| Simcoe–Yorkboundary | New Tecumseth–Kingboundary | 171.3 | 106.4 |  County Road 15north (Sideroad 15) | ||||
| 179.7 | 111.7 |  York Regional Road 27south –NobletonSimcoe County Road 27north –Cookstown | FormerlyHighway 27 | |||||
| York | King | 186.7 | 116.0 | Highway 400–Toronto,Barrie York Regional Road 31begins | Highway 400 exit 55; Highway 9 eastern terminus | |||
| Newmarket | 191.5 | 119.0 | Regional Road 1(Yonge Street)Regional Road 31east (Davis Drive) | FormerlyHighway 11;former Highway 9 eastern terminus | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
[edit]- Footnotes
- ^abMinistry of Transportation of Ontario (2008)."Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts".Archived fromthe originalon July 6, 2011.RetrievedFebruary 15,2012.
- ^Shragge & Bagnato 1984,p. 74.
- ^abOntario Back Road Atlas(Map). Cartography byMapArt.Mapart Publishing. 2022. pp. 26–30.ISBN1-55198-226-9.
- ^Robertson, Norman (1906).The history of the county of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein, Province of Ontario, Canada.Toronto: Briggs. pp. 436–437.LCCN09010340.OCLC16836409.OL14002209M.RetrievedSeptember 8,2011.
- ^For a 19th century historic map showing the route through Kincardine Township (the present day municipality of Kincardine), see"Township of Kincardine".Canadian County Atlas Project.McGill University.2001.RetrievedSeptember 8,2011.Other historic township maps showing the route are available at the same site.
- ^Map 4(PDF)(Map). 1: 700,000. Official road map of Ontario.Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.January 1, 2010.RetrievedSeptember 8,2011.
- ^"Appendix 5 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1932. p. 78.
- ^"Appendix 4 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1937. p. 51.
- ^Highway Planning Office (1989).Provincial Highways Distance Table.Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. pp. 25–26.
- ^"Maybe There's Hope Yet!".Editorial. Orangeville Citizen. September 28, 2006. Archived fromthe originalon 12 March 2012.RetrievedSeptember 13,2010.
- ^Townsend, Wayne (2006).Orangeville: the heart of Dufferin County.Natural Heritage / Natural History. p. 114.ISBN1-897045-18-2.RetrievedSeptember 18,2010.
- ^Edwards, John (2004). "Ground broken on bypass construction". Orangeville Banner.
- ^"Certificate of Substantial Completion".Daily Commercial News.Reed Construction Data. September 2, 2005. Archived fromthe originalon 4 March 2012.RetrievedSeptember 19,2010.
- ^Claridge, Thomas (September 22, 2011)."Real, Related Local Issues: Roads and Property Taxes".Orangeville Citizen.Alan Claridge.RetrievedJuly 8,2013.
- ^Claridge, Thomas (July 4, 2013)."Sorry – Not Dufferin 109!".Orangeville Citizen.Alan Claridge.RetrievedJuly 8,2013.
- ^Ontario Order in Council 1481/99
- Bibliography
- Shragge, John; Bagnato, Sharon (1984).From Footpaths to Freeways.Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Historical Committee.ISBN0-7743-9388-2.
