Highway 101 (Ontario)
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| Highway 101 |
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| Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation | |||||||||||||
| West end: |  Hwy 17 near Wawa |
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| Major junctions: |
 Hwy 129 near Chapleau Hwy 144 near Timmins Hwy 655 near Timmins Hwy 11 in Matheson |
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| East end: |  Route 388 towards Rouyn-Noranda, QC |
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Highway 101 is one of the most isolated routes in Ontario's King's Highway system. It runs from Highway 17 at Wawa easterly to the Quebec border near Rouyn-Noranda. From Wawa to Timmins is an isolated highway. It passes through Chapleau, Foleyet, Timmins, South Porcupine, Porcupine and Matheson. It measures just under 400 km in length, all 2-lane paved except for the 4-lane, undivided section from Government Road in Mountjoy to Porcupine, through the City of Timmins.
Just east of The Shoals Provincial Park, the highway crosses the Laurentian Divide, the boundary between the Great Lakes and Arctic Ocean watersheds. North of this point, all streams and rivers flow north into Hudson Bay. A sign and a small picnic area mark the transition.
Within Timmins, the highway also has the street names Riverside Drive in the Mountjoy area, Algonquin Boulevard downtown, Schumacher Drive in Schumacher, Herald Avenue in South Porcupine and King Street in Porcupine. A new alignment is currently proposed but not yet under construction to bypass the urban core of Timmins.
At the Ontario-Quebec border, the roadway continues eastward as Route 388 into the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.
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