Maintained by The Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
Length
140.3 km[1] (87.2 mi)
Existed
August 5, 1936[2]–present
Major junctions
South end
Highway 400 near Carling (north of exit 241)
North end
Highway 17 in Sudbury
Location
Country
Canada
Province
Ontario
Highway system
Ontario provincial highways
Current
Former
400-series
← Highway 67
→ Highway 71
Former provincial highways
← Highway 68
Highway 70 →
King's Highway 69, commonly referred to as Highway 69, is a provincially maintained north–south highway in the central portion of the Canadian province of Ontario. In conjunction with Highway 400, it links Toronto with the city of Greater Sudbury at Highway 17, via Parry Sound. It is part of the Trans-Canada Highway and the National Highway System. From its southern terminus of Highway 559 at Carling, Highway69 begins as Highway400 narrows from a four-laned freeway to a two lane highway. It travels northerly for approximately 68 kilometres (42 mi) to south of the French River before widening back to a divided four lane freeway for approximately 64 kilometres (40 mi) into Sudbury. The final 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) of the route, connecting to Highway17, is a five lane arterial road that will be converted to freeway as the final phase of the four-laning.
Highway69 was first designated in 1936 when the Department of Highways (DHO) assumed the Rama Road between Atherley and Washago. This short route was extended the following year when the DHO merged with the Department of Northern Development and expanded the King's Highway network north of the Severn River. By the beginning of World War II, the route reached as far north as Britt; a separate segment connected the town of Burwash with Sudbury. However, the rationing of labour and materials due to the war effort resulted in these two sections remaining separated until the mid-1950s. In 1976, several reroutings and renumbering took place in the Muskoka area. As a result, the portion of Highway69 between Brechin and Foot's Bay was renumbered as Highway 169, while the entirety of Highway 103 between Coldwater and Foot's Bay was renumbered as Highway69.
Between 1956 and 1979, Highway69 extended through and north of Sudbury. Until some point between 1974 and 1977, it reached as far north as Capreol, after which it was truncated at Hanmer. By 1980, the northern terminus had shifted to the Southwest Bypass, onto which Highway17 was rerouted in 1995. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Highway400 was gradually pushed north to its current terminus by twinning Highway69, gradually truncating its length. A commitment to complete four-laning to Sudbury has been made by all three major provincial political parties in Ontario since 1991, but as of 2022 there remains 70 kilometres (43 mi) of two lane highway still to be constructed. Various former alignments of Highway69 remain in use as directional carriageways of Highway400 or as local roads. The highway forms part of the Georgian Bay Route of the Trans-Canada Highway, which continues south along Highway400.
^Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (2016). "Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts". Retrieved January 1, 2021.
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Highway 400 near Carling (north of exit 241)
Highway 17 in Sudbury
