Ontario Highway 17

Highway 17
Trans-Canada Highway
Route information
Length:	1,964.0 km[2] (1,220 mi)
Existed:	February 26, 1920[1] – present
Major junctions
West end:	PTH 1 towards Winnipeg
	Highway 71 – Kenora  Highway 61 – Thunder Bay  Highway 11 – Nipigon  Highway 101 – Wawa To I-75 in Sault Ste. Marie  Highway 6 – McKerrow  Highway 69 – Sudbury  Highway 11 – North Bay  Highway 41 – Pembroke  Highway 60 – Renfrew
East end:	Highway 417 near Arnprior
Location
Major cities:	Kenora, Dryden, Ignace, Thunder Bay, Wawa, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay, Mattawa, Petawawa, Pembroke, Arnprior
Highway system
Ontario provincial highways 400-series • Former ← Highway 16 Highway 19 →

King's Highway 17, more commonly known as Highway 17, is a provincially maintained highway and the primary route of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins at the Manitoba border 50 km (31 mi) west of Kenora and ends south of Arnprior at the western terminus of Highway 417, 1,964.0 km (1,220.4 mi) to the east. This makes it Ontario's longest highway.^{[note 1]}

The highway once extended even farther to the Quebec border in East Hawkesbury with a peak length of about 2,180 km (1,350 mi). However, a section of Highway 17 "disappeared" when the Ottawa section of it was upgraded to the freeway Highway 417 in 1971. Highway 17 was not re-routed through Ottawa, nor did it share numbering with Highway 417 to rectify the discontinuity, even though Highway 417 formed a direct link between the western and eastern sections of Highway 17. However, from East Hawkesbury to Ottawa, Highway 17 retained the Trans-Canada Highway routing and signs until it met up again and merged with Highway 417 until 1997, when Highway 17 through Ottawa was downloaded. The Trans-Canada Highway designation now extends along all of Highway 417.

History

The official ceremony for the opening of the Lake Superior Circle Tour and the Trans-Canada Highway was held on September 17, 1960 near Wawa

The route which would become Highway 17 was first designated as a provincial highway on February 26, 1920, when two separate highways were added to the system.^[1] The first travelled between Ottawa and Pembroke, while the second travelled between Ottawa and Point Fortune at the Ontario–Quebec border. Both these routes became known as Highway 17 in the summer of 1925.^[3] By 1930, a road existed between Pembroke and Sault Saint Marie, although it was not part of Highway 17 at the time.^[4] This road was constructed beginning in 1926 with the signing of the Department of Northern Development (DND) Act.^[1] On April 1, 1937, the DND was absorbed into the Department of Highways, and the road west of Pembroke became an extension of Highway 17.^[5]

The portion of Highway 17 over the top of Lake Superior was constructed in the late 1950s as a result of the Trans-Canada Highway Act. Amongst some of the most difficult terrain encountered in Canada, engineers blasted 2,730,000 cubic yards of rock, removed 7,825,000 cubic yards of earth, and cleared 6.97 square kilometres (1,720 acres) of forest in order to bridge the 266 kilometres (165 mi) of wilderness known as "the Gap".^[6] The Gap was completed and opened to traffic on September 17, 1960, uniting the two segments and completing the route of Highway 17 from the Manitoba border to the Quebec border.

The last gravel stretch of Hwy 17 was located west of Ignace and was paved in 1967.

During the 1950s, the Greber Plan in Ottawa called for the creation of numerous parkways and divided highways through the burgeoning city. One of these, known as The Queensway, was a grade-separated freeway that would bypass Highway 17. This freeway was gradually constructed throughout the 1960s.

On April 1, 1997, the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) transferred the responsibility of maintenance and upkeep along 14.2 km (8.8 mi) of Highway 17 east of "the split" with Ontario Highway 417 to Trim Road (Regional Road 57), a process commonly referred to as downloading. The Region of Ottawa–Carleton designated the road as Regional Road 174. Despite the protests of the region that the road served a provincial purpose, a second round of transfers saw Highway 17 within Ottawa downloaded entirely on January 1, 1998. An additional 12.8 km (8.0 mi) was added to the length of Regional Road 174.^[7] Highway 17 was also downloaded within the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, where it was redesignated as County Road 17. ^[8]

Route description

Highway 17 crosses some of the most remote regions of Ontario. Although there are several settlements established throughout its length, the distance between gas stations can often exceed several hundred kilometres. Despite the isolation of the highway, it is well-travelled throughout its length.^[2] The section of Highway 17 north of Lake Superior is regarded as one of the most scenic drives in the province.^[9]

Manitoba to Nipigon

Highway 17 begins at the border between Ontario and Manitoba, where a large installation greets drivers in both directions. The highway is two lanes wide and travels over and between the surface features of the Canadian Shield; further west into Manitoba the highway widens into a four lane divided expressway. To the east, the highway travels through thick boreal forest towards Keewatin, where the grade-separated Kenora Bypass, Highway 17A, splits to the north. Through the town of Kenora, Highway 17 is signed, but maintained under a connecting link agreement between the town and the province. Full provincial maintenance resumes at the eastern town limits. Further east, the highway merges with the Kenora Bypass. It meets the northern terminus of Highway 71, then makes a gradual eastward journey through the lake-dotted Kenora District to the town of Dryden. Here the highway encounters one of the few agriculturally-sustainable areas of northern Ontario. The highway begins to zig-zag southeasterly, passing through several minor settlements before entering the mining town of Ignace. Shortly thereafter, it begins to curve to the south. It meets Highway 11 475 km (295 mi) east of the Manitoba border.

Highway 17 divides mountains on its journey along the north shore of Lake Superior

The two highways travel concurrently towards Thunder Bay at the western lakehead of Lake Superior. Though it originally travelled through what was then the twin-cities, the highway bypasses to the northwest on the at-grade Thunder Bay Expressway.

Nipigon to Sudbury

Within Nipigon, Highway 11 and Highway 17 cross the Nipigon River. Along with the railway crossing immediately to the south, and another on the northern shore of Lake Nipigon, this forms the narrowest bottleneck in Canada between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.^{[citation needed]} On the eastern shore of the river, Highway 11 separates and travels north towards Geraldton and Hearst. Highway 17 continues east along the northern shore of Lake Superior. Near White River, the highway enters Algoma District and turns southward. It meets the western terminus of Highway 101 near Wawa, which provides for a shorter route to Sudbury via the Sultan Industrial Road.

Highway 17 near Wawa

South of Wawa, the highway enters Lake Superior Provincial Park. After proceeding through several mountain ranges, and crossing numerous rivers, the highway enters Sault Ste. Marie. Here a border crossing into the United States is provided via the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, which connects with I-75 in Michigan. As the highway exits Sault Ste. Marie to the east, a newly constructed segment of four lane divided highway branches north; Highway 17B (the only remaining business route of Highway 17 in service) continues east through Garden River. The divided highway bypasses Garden River and passes east of Echo Bay before curving south and merging with Highway 17B.

Shortly thereafter, it turns to the east and travels along the North Channel of Lake Huron towards Sudbury, passing through numerous small towns, including Thessalon, Blind River, Massey and McKerrow. At Sudbury, the highway widens into a freeway through the Walden area of the city until reaching the Southwest / Southeast Bypass at Lively, where it narrows again to a Super 2 road. This segment is currently undergoing an environmental assessment, with plans to upgrade it to a full freeway in the next ten years.

Sudbury to Arnprior

Highway 17 meets the Ottawa River in Deux Rivieres

Highway 17 passes to the south of the urban centre of Sudbury. It meets Highway 69 at an interchange; with the conversion of Highway 69 to Highway 400 underway, through-traffic will be transferred to a new interchange several kilometres further north, while the existing alignment of Highway 69 will become an extension of Municipal Road 46. At this interchange, the Southwest and Southeast Bypasses meet, and for just over a kilometre, Highway 17 is a divided four-laned freeway.

The Super 2 continues northeast to meet the original alignment of Highway 17 east of downtown Sudbury. Here it turns east and travels through the city's outlying neighbourhoods of Coniston and Wahnapitae; a new freeway alignment of this route is currently in the planning stages.

The highway route passes through the rural municipalities of Markstay-Warren and West Nipissing before reaching North Bay, where it follows an undivided four-lane expressway alignment, with reduced but not full control of access, through the city of North Bay. For 4.1 kilometres from Algonquin Avenue to the Twin Lakes area, the route is once again concurrent with Highway 11. At the northern end of this concurrency, Highway 11 travels north and wraps westward and south to Nipigon; at the southern end, it continues southward towards Toronto, while Highway 17 turns east toward the Ottawa Valley. An at-grade intersection with Highway 63 is located at approximately the midpoint of the concurrency.

Highway 17 looking east towards Stonecliffe

East of North Bay, Highway 17 meets Highway 94, the last connection into southern Ontario for nearly 200 km (120 mi), thereafter travelling alongside the Mattawa River to its confluence with the Ottawa River in Mattawa, where drivers must turn at a junction with Highway 533. The highway then parallels the Ottawa River through a mountainous region, first passing through the villages of Stonecliffe and Rolphton before arriving in Deep River, a planned community developed as part of the Manhattan Project. It then passes through Chalk River and enters Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.

Beginning at the southern end of the army base, Highway 17 follows the Pembroke Bypass, bypassing west of Petawawa and Pembroke, where it intersects Highway 41. The bypass ends at Renfrew County Road 40, north of Muskrat Lake. The highway then travels south through the town of Cobden. It follows a bypass east of Renfrew and meets Highway 60. Highway 17 curves east and travels towards Arnprior, which the highway bypasses south of. After crossing the Madawaska River, the highway divides and widens to four lanes, at which point Highway 17 ends and Highway 417 begins.

One of the few short sections of 4-lane divided Highway 17 between Echo Bay and Desbarats

Business routes

Highway 17 used to have a number of business routes, all but one of which have been decommissioned. All were at one time the primary route of Highway 17 through their respective locations, and were given the business route designation following the construction or designation of a newer bypass alignment.

• Highway 17B (Ottawa)
• Highway 17B (North Bay)
• Highway 17B (Thessalon)
• Highway 17B (Sault Ste. Marie)
• Highway 17B (Thunder Bay)

Future

See also: Ontario Highway 417

With all route planning studies now completed on Highways 11 and 69/400, in the latter half of the 2000s the Ministry of Transportation's planning branch began undertaking more active preparations for the eventual conversion of Highway 17 to freeway. Although no comprehensive conversion plan is currently in place, planning and construction projects are now underway at a number of locations along the highway.

Sault Ste. Marie MPP David Orazietti has spearheaded a petition to have the entire highway four-laned from Arnprior to Sault Ste. Marie,^[10] similar to the campaign previously undertaken by his caucus colleague Rick Bartolucci regarding the extension of Highway 400. Cheryl Gallant, the federal Member of Parliament for Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, has also advocated for the four-laning of the highway through the Ottawa Valley toward North Bay, and ultimately the entire length of the highway throughout Northern Ontario.^[11]

A 2009 study commissioned by the forestry trade magazine The Working Forest, titled "A Vision for Ontario’s Trans Canada Highway, North Bay to the Manitoba Border", determined that it would cost the Ontario government $600 million per year over 25 years to convert the entire length of both Highway 17 and Highway 11 to freeway, suggesting that a comprehensive plan would be affordable and achievable if the provincial and federal governments could reach a cost-sharing agreement.^[12]

Renfrew County

A new route east of Cobden has been selected by the MTO

Studies are underway on the extension of Highway 417 through the Ottawa Valley region from its current terminus at Arnprior to Petawawa. From Arnprior to Haley Station and from Meath to Petawawa, the proposed freeway route largely follows the existing alignment — in these areas, the current highway route largely avoids existing communities, and thus a second set of lanes can be easily added alongside the existing route. Within the township of Whitewater Region, however, a new alignment is planned several kilometres east of the existing road in order to bypass communities such as Cobden.

North Bay

Planning studies have been completed for the conversion of Highway 17's alignment through North Bay to a full freeway, including an interchange with a new alignment of Highway 11 which would replace the existing Algonquin Avenue segment.^[13] Studies commenced in early 2011 on an extension of the four-lane route easterly to Bonfield,^[14] and further studies on the routes from Bonfield to Mattawa and from North Bay to Cache Bay are expected to begin later in 2011 or 2012.

Sudbury

As the extension of Highway 400 approaches Sudbury, with planned completion in 2017, the MTO began a route planning and environmental assessment study on Highway 17 easterly from the Highway 69 to Markstay in 2010;^[15] studies for the segment from Highway 69 westerly to the existing freeway in Walden were completed in 2007. Current plans, though only initial, involve extending the terminus of the freeway segment of Highway 69, southeast of Sudbury, north to meet a new Highway 17 alignment. Portions of the Southeast Bypass will be utilized for this new freeway, but several possible corridors have been identified east of there.

A new three level interchange will be constructed between Highway 17 and the future Highway 400 near the Lake Laurentian Conservation Area.^[16]

Preliminary route planning studies have also been completed on the freeway's westerly extension to McKerrow, near Espanola, but no construction schedule has been announced to date. However, the first phase of this route, extending the existing freeway from Municipal Road 55 in Sudbury for six kilometres further west through the Den-Lou neighbourhood, is currently in the detail design phase.

Sault Ste. Marie

At Sault Ste. Marie, the expressway segment currently ends six kilometres short of its eventual terminus at Black Road and Second Line, as an agreement has yet to be reached with the Batchawana First Nation regarding land use through Rankin. Completion of the segment is not currently expected until at least 2015. In the interim, highway traffic travels between the expressway and the current highway alignment through Sault Ste. Marie by means of the previously planned northerly extension of Trunk Road.^[17]

The former segment of Highway 17 through Garden River was initially redesignated as part of Highway 638, although the Garden River First Nation disputed this designation and insisted that the highway be renamed Highway 17B. As of February 2009, the former route is now designated as Highway 17B. In February 2010, Garden River's band council publicly warned that they would consider imposing tolls on the routes of both Highway 17 and Highway 17B through their territory if the provincial government did not assist the council with a funding shortfall of approximately $1 million.^[18]

In February 2011, the Ministry of Transportation announced that the expressway's current level intersection at Highway 638 in Echo Bay will be upgraded to a full interchange.^[19]

Thunder Bay and Kenora

Construction started in 2004 on a westerly extension of Thunder Bay's Harbour Expressway, from the Thunder Bay Expressway to Vibert Road, intended to serve as a new alignment for Highways 11 and 17.^[20]

In July 2008 the federal and provincial governments announced a $6.2 billion infrastructure program that makes the four-laning of Hwys. 11 and 17 near Kenora and Thunder Bay a priority. Engineering work on twinning 11/17 between Nipigon and Thunder Bay is to begin in 2008.^[21] On May 1, 2009 the federal and provincial government announced that twinning of Highway 11/17 would begin in 2010.^[22]

On May 15, 2009 the federal and provincial government also announced that twinning of Highway 17 at the Manitoba/Ontario border easterly toward Kenora would also begin in 2010.^[23]

Major intersections

Major intersections are listed from west to east. Rail and river crossings noted by the MTO are included for remote areas.

Division	Location	km[2]	Destinations	Notes
Highway 17 continues west towards Winnipeg as Manitoba Highway 1
Kenora District		0.0	Ontario–Manitoba boundary
		29.5	Lindsay Road
	Kenora	37.6–39.6	Highway 17A (Kenora Bypass (western junction))
		40.4	Highway 641 (Laclu Road)
		43.4–63.0		Keewatin / Kenora connecting link agreement
		67.8–68.1	Highway 17A (Kenora Bypass (eastern junction))
		72.2	Highway 71 – Rainy River, Fort Frances
	Vermillion Bay	144.6	Highway 647 (Vermillion Bay Road)
		146.6	Highway 105 (Red Lake Road)
		160.9	Highway 594 (Five Acres Rest)
		173.8	Highway 605
	Dryden	185.1	Highway 665 north (Richan Road)
		186.5		Dryden connecting link agreement begins
		189.6	Highway 601 (Colonization Avenue North)
		189.9	Highway 594 (Duke Street)
		191.3		Dryden connecting link agreement ends
		194.6	Highway 601 (Airport Road) – Rice Lake
	Dinorwic	217.4	Highway 72
		228.8	Highway 622 – Atikokan
	Borups Corners	238.3	Highway 603 – Dyment
	Ignace	297.0	Highway 599
		307.2		Gulliver River bridge
Thunder Bay District		366.1		Sheba CPR underpass
		386.8		Little Firesteel River bridge
	Upsala	404.1		Inwood Provincial Park entrance
	Shabaqua	474.9	Highway 11 west – Fort Frances, Rainy River	Western end of Highway 11 concurrency
	Thunder Bay	~560.0	Eastern end of Highway 102
			Southern End of Highway 527
	Nipigon	655.0	Highway 11 east – Hearst, Geraldton	Eastern end of Highway 11 concurrency
		699.2		Little Gravel River bridge
		730.4		Selim CPR underpass
	Schreiber	744.9	Quebec Street
		748.6	Heron Bay CPR underpass
		757.0	Aquasabon River bridge
	Terrace Bay	759.1		Terrace Bay CPR underpass
		785.7	Steel River bridge
		807.5		Little Pic River bridge
		835.4	Peninsula Road – Marathon	Formerly Highway 626
		842.1	Highway 627 (Heron Bay Road)
		875.3	Highway 614 (Manitouwadge Road)
Algoma District	White River	926.0	Highway 631 (Elgin Street)
	Wawa	1015.6	Highway 101
		1120.9		Montreal River bridge
		1170.8	Highway 563 – Batchawana Bay
		1195.3		Harmony River bridge
		1209.2	Highway 552 – Goulais Bay
		1221.2	Highway 556 – Heyden
	Sault Ste. Marie	1225.0–1244.4		Beginning of Sault Ste. Marie connecting link agreement
		1240.3	Beginning of divided expressway
		1244.4		End of Sault Ste. Marie connecting link agreement
	Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen	1260.3	Highway 638 – Echo Bay
		1264.3	End of Divided expressway
		1280.7	Highway 548 – St. Joseph Island
	Bruce Mines	1300.6	Highway 638 (Richardson Street)
	Thessalon	1320.2	Highway 129 – Chapleau
	Huron Shores	1347.5	Highway 546 – Iron Bridge
	North Shore	1384.3	Highway 538 – Algoma Mills
		1389.1	Highway 538 – Algoma Mills
		1403.7	Highway 108 (Elliot Lake Road)
Sudbury District	Sables-Spanish Rivers	1443.7	Highway 553 (Imperial Street) – Massey
	Baldwin	1469.6	Highway 6 – McKerrow	To Espanola and Manitoulin Island
Greater Sudbury	Walden area	1505.9	Municipal Road 55 – Whitefish	Beginning of freeway segment; MR55 is the former alignment of Highway 17 through Sudbury.
		1520.5	Highway 144 (Northwest Bypass) – Timmins
		1525.6	Municipal Road 55 – Lively	End of freeway segment; beginning of Southwest Bypass.
	South End/McFarlane Lake	1535.5	Municipal Road 80 (Long Lake Road)
		1538.9	Municipal Road 46 North (Regent Street)  Highway 69 south – Toronto	End of Southwest Bypass; beginning of Southeast Bypass.
	Nickel Centre area	1550.0	Municipal Road 55 (Kingsway) – Coniston	End of Southeast Bypass
		1558.1	Municipal Road 537 – Wahnapitae
Sudbury District	Markstay-Warren	1579.1	Markstay Road Main Street	Future end of freeway segment in current expansion plans.
		1589.4	Highway 535 – Hagar
		1597.8	Highway 539 – Warren
Nipissing District	West Nipissing	1611.4	Highway 575
		1612.4	Highway 64 south
		1627.5	Leblanc Road	Beginning of Sturgeon Falls connecting link agreement
		1629.0	Highway 64 north – Field
		1629.9	Nipissing Street	End of Sturgeon Falls connecting link agreement
		1661.8	Main Street West	Formerly Highway 17B
	North Bay	1665.5	Highway 11 north (Algonquin Avenue) – Kirkland Lake	Beginning of Highway 11 concurrency
		1667.8	Highway 63 (Trout Lake Road) – Temiscaming
		1669.6	Highway 11 south – Toronto	End of Highway 11 concurrency
	East Ferris	1680.2	Highway 94 – Corbeil
	Bonfield	1692.9	Highway 531 (Bonfield Road)
	Calvin	1710.6	Highway 630 (Eau St. Claire)	Kiosk access point for Algonquin Park
	Mattawa	1729.6	Highway 533 (Main Street)
Renfrew County	Head, Clara and Maria	1763.7		Deux-Rivières CPR underpass
		1799.7		Stonecliffe CPR overpass
	Laurentian Hills	1814.9	Highway 635 (Swisha Road)	Location of Nuclear Power Demonstration, the first CANDU reactor
	Deep River	1834.1	Deep River Road
	Petawawa	1863.6	County Road 37 (Murphy Road)
		1870.2	County Road 26 (Doran Road)
	Laurentian Valley	1873.2	County Road 42 (Forest Lea Road)
		1877.5	County Road 58 (Round Lake Road)	Formerly Highway 148
		1883.3	Highway 41 south – Eganville Paul Martin Drive – Pembroke
	Whitewater Region	1894.4	County Road 40 (Greenwood Road)	Beginning of proposed realignment of Highway 17
		1899.0	County Road 13 (Mountain Road)
		1911.0	County Road 8 (Main Street)
		1912.3	County Road 7 (Foresters Falls Road)
		1923.0	Highway 653 east – Chenaux County Road 61 west (Godfrey Road) – Haley Station
	Horton	1930.2	County Road 4 (Storyland Road)
	Renfrew	1937.4	Highway 60 west (O'Brien Road) – Huntsville, Algonquin Provincial Park
	McNab/Braeside	1948.2	County Road 63 (Anderson Road / Miller Road)
		1950.3	Highway 508 (Calabogie Road) County Road 54 (McLean Drive) – Braeside
	Arnprior	1961.4	County Road 2 (White Lake Road)
		1964.0		Formerly Ottawa Road 117; disconnected due to four-laning
Ottawa
Highway 17 continues east as Highway 417

Notes

1. ^ See List of highways in Ontario for length comparisons.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Shragge 1982, pp. 74–75.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (2007). "Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts". http://www.raqsb.mto.gov.on.ca/techpubs/TrafficVolumes.nsf/tvweb?OpenForm&Seq=5. Retrieved August 24, 2011. 
3. ^ "Provincial Highways Now Being Numbered". The Canadian Engineer (Monetary Times Print) 49 (8): 246. August 25, 1925. "Numbering of the various provincial highways in Ontario has been commenced by the Department of Public Highways. Resident engineers are now receiving metal numbers to be placed on poles along the provincial highways. These numbers will also be placed on poles throughout cities, towns and villages, and motorists should then have no trouble in finding their way in and out of urban municipalities. Road designations from "2" to "17" have already been alloted..." 
4. ^ Ontario Department of Public Highways (1930-31). Road Map of Ontario (Map). 
5. ^ Shragge 1982, p. 73.
6. ^ Shragge 1982, pp. 84–87.
7. ^ Department of Public Works and Services (September 14, 2004). Responsibilities and Obligations Re: Highway 174 (Report). City of Ottawa. http://www.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/occ/2004/10-13/trc/ACS2004-CCS-TRC-0009.htm. Retrieved February 14, 2011. 
8. ^ Millier Dickinson Blais (February 16, 2010). Economic Development Plan - Final Report (Report). Prescott-Russell Community Development Corporation. pp. 41–42. http://www.sdcpr-prcdc.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&task=download&id=13&Itemid=208&lang=en. Retrieved March 10, 2011. 
9. ^ Turnbull, Robert. "The Scenic Wonders of Highway 17 - From the Soo to Thunder Bay". The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 129 (38,235): p. 33. "Certainly, there is no more spectacular drive in Ontario than along most of the 447 miles of No. 17 Highway between Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay." 
10. ^ 4 Lane 17
11. ^ "Cheryl Gallant pushing highway expansion". Pembroke Observer, February 2010.
12. ^ "Four-Laning". Temiskaming Speaker, December 2, 2009.
13. ^ "MTO maps new Highway 11-17 expressway". Northern Ontario Business, March 11, 2008.
14. ^ "Exploring expansion: MTO studies Highway 17". North Bay Nugget, February 3, 2011.
15. ^ Highway 17 Route Planning Study: Sudbury to Markstay. Stantec Consulting.
16. ^ Stantec (January 26, 2011). Route Planning and Environmental Assessment Study (Report). Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. http://www.greatersudbury.ca/agendas/index.cfm?pg=feed&action=file&attachment=5101.pdf. Retrieved February 22, 2011. 
17. ^ Google Maps
18. ^ "Province mum on legality of toll on Hwy. 17E". Sault Star, February 5, 2010.
19. ^ "It's official: Hwy. 638 to get interchange at bypass". Sault Star, February 4, 2011.
20. ^ "McGuinty Government Secures Partnership To Improve Northern Highways", MNDM, November 21, 2003.
21. ^ "Local News". The Chronicle-Journal. http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories_local.php?id=124467. Retrieved 2010-12-29. 
22. ^ "News | Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry". Mndm.gov.on.ca. http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/news/NRView.asp?NRNUM=73&NRYear=2009&NRLAN=EN&NRID=5427. Retrieved 2010-12-29. 
23. ^ "Northern Highway Improvements Around The Corner". News.ontario.ca. http://www.news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2009/05/northern-highway-improvements-around-the-corner.html. Retrieved 2010-12-29. 

External links

• Trans Canada Highway distance charts, road conditions, maps
• Highway 17 photos and information
• Google Maps: Highway 17 route