Ontario Highway 101

Highway 101
Route information
Maintained by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation
Major junctions
West end:	Highway 17 near Wawa
	Highway 129 near Chapleau Highway 144 near Timmins Highway 655 near Timmins Highway 11 in Matheson
East end:	Route 388 at Ontario-Quebec border
Highway system
Ontario provincial highways 400-series • Former ← Highway 94 Highway 102 →

King's Highway 101, commonly referred to as Highway 101, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It connects Highway 17 west of Wawa with Highway 11 in Matheson before continuing east to the Ontario–Quebec border where it becomes Route 388. The highway forms one of the only connection between the two routes of the Trans-Canada Highway between Nipigon and Temagami, and crosses some of the most remote regions of Northern Ontario.

Route description

Highway 101 runs from Highway 17 at Wawa easterly to the Quebec border near Rouyn-Noranda. It passes through Chapleau, Foleyet, Timmins, South Porcupine, Porcupine and Matheson along its 476.5 km (296.1 mi) course. With the exception of an undivided urban four-lane section through Timmins, from Government Road in Mountjoy to Porcupine, the entire highway is two lanes wide.

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, while south of it all streams and rivers flow south to the Great Lakes. 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.

Images

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  Highway 101 at Wawa Lake.

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  Marker sign for the Divide along Highway 101.

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  Highway 101 is known as Algonquin Boulevard in Downtown Timmins

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  Highway 101 in Matheson.

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