Highway 66 (Ontario)

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Highway 66 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario.

Located in the Timiskaming District, the highway begins at Matachewan at the junction of Highway 65, and extending eastward for 106 kilometres to the Quebec boundary just east of Kearns. At the provincial border, the highway continues eastward as Quebec route 117.

From Highway 11 (41 km east of Matachewan) at Kenogami Lake, Ontario eastwards to the Quebec border, Highway 66 is designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway.

The section of Highway 66 between Swastika and Kirkland Lake had been paved before being assumed as a King's Highway, due to the region's prosperity during the heady gold rush days of the 1930s.^{[citation needed]} There have been long-lasting apocryphal rumours circulating for years in the area that some gold ore destined for a refinery was mistakenly crushed by a road construction crew and used for granular base on this paved section of Hwy 66.^{[citation needed]} This has not been proven, however, and is little more than an urban legend.^{[citation needed]}