Penetanguishene Road

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Penetanguishene Road now Highway 93, and Simcoe County Road 93, built between 1814-15, from the north side of Kempenfelt Bay (east of Barrie), to the townsite and Naval establishment at Penetanguishene, was the first road constructed in what is now Simcoe County, Ontario.

For several years the Holland River and Lake Simcoe provided the only means of transportation. Holland Landing was the northern terminus of Yonge Street. The military route to Georgian Bay prior to, and during the war of 1812, crossed Lake Simcoe to the head of Kempenfelt Bay, then by the Nine Mile Portage to Willow Creek and the Nottawasaga River. The Penetanguishene Military Post was started before the war, however, lacking a suitable overland transport route, passage from York (Toronto) to Lake Huron continued via the Nottawasaga. The Penetanguishene Road replaced this route when the Naval Establishment was opened in 1817.

From 1824, a connection to this road, built from Holland Landing and completed in 1827 to Kempenfelt Bay, was also called Penetanguishene Road. With its connection to Yonge Street and Middle Crossroad at Crown Hill, the southern portion of Penetanguishene Road became an original part of Highway 11, in 1920.

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A History of Simcoe County, (1909) by Andrew F Hunter 1863-1940. Volume 1

v • d • e County Roads in Simcoe County, Ontario

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East-West routes	1 • 3 • 8 • 11 • 14 • 20 • 21 • 40 • 43 • 52 • 88 • 89 • 90

Highways and expressways	9 • 11 • 12 • 26 • 89 • 93 • 400

Former Provincial Highways	27 • 90 • 131

Roads in Ontario