An old
highway’s legacy Ontario Highway 2, also known as the King’s Highway,
among many other names, originally ran with Highway 3 from Windsor to the Quebec border. It was also the primary east-west route across southern Ontario until Highway 401 was completed in 1968. It was established in 1794 as a footpath through the
spot? John, our host, explained that it was “Brockville’s favourite restaurant” and the only patio on the river. There is lots to do and see in Brockville (www.
brockville.com) with automobile, boat and rib festivals, not to mention world-class fishing and diving on the numerous local wrecks. Touring the 1,000 islands (actually there are 1,864 islands, but who’s going to count them?) would take an entire day, and we had to get back on the road again. We were on a mission to find the King’s Highway,
so down King Street we roared, heading west on great roads that dipped and dived or looped around the rocky landscape. We exercised the car on the corners, while keeping on old Number 2 and forsaking both the well-known scenic continued on page 47
woods between Dundas and the present location of Paris, known as the Governor’s Road. It was then re-established in 1917 as the Provincial Highway and later paved in 1926 to accommodate the growing use of passenger cars. Originally, it was part of a series of highways
connecting Windsor with Halifax in Nova Scotia, and was a little over 837.4 km long. On January 1, 1998, good chunks of the highway’s length were deemed local routes and were therefore removed from the provincial highway system. Though several tokens of the highway’s past can
be found in just about every city it linked to (Windsor, London, and Toronto just to name a few), just over a single kilometre is all that remains of the original highway, making it one of the shortest provincial highways in the province. The entire route remains drivable to this day, but as a redubbed County Road 2.
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