King's Highway 2 - O N T H I G H W A Y S
Looking West in Kingston along King's Highway 2 with a very faded Historic Highway maker. Picture taken February 22nd, 2004
Highway 2 is the most important highway in Ontario Highway History, bar none! Highway 2 was known originally as the 'Trans-Provincial Highway', it was the first highway to span the entire province from Detroit to Montreal. Highway 2 was almost completely lost to downloading with only two remaining segments left: concurrently with Highway 49 near Marysville, and between the Thousand Islands Parkway and Highway 401 near Gananoque. Fortunately there are still many well signed segments of Highway 2, particularly connecting links such as Toronto, and Kingston.
Highway 2 was bypassed by Highway 401 in the 1950's and 60's, and the 401 has taken on many of the roles that Highway 2 once performed
Because of Highway 2's length I am spitting it into four sections
Page 1 (Windsor - Clarence Street, London) Page 2 (London - QEW, Toronto)
Page 3 (Toronto - Lasalle Causeway, Kingston Page 4 (Kingston - Highway 34, Lancaster)
Page last updated: April 5th, 2004
Page created: March 15th, 2004