Highway 101 (Ontario)

Infobox road
province=ON
type=Hwy
route=101
alternate_name=


maint=the Ministry of Transportation
length_km=
length_ref=Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, [http://www.raqsa.mto.gov.on.ca/techpubs/TrafficVolumes.nsf/tvweb 2004 Annual Average Daily Traffic] ]
length_round=1
established=
direction_a=West
terminus_a=jct|state=ON|Hwy|17 near Wawa
junction=jct|state=ON|Hwy|129 near Chapleau
jct|state=ON|Hwy|144 near Timmins
jct|state=ON|Hwy|655 near Timmins
jct|state=ON|Hwy|11 in Matheson
direction_b=East
terminus_b=jct|state=QC|Route|388 towards Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
previous_type=Hwy
previous_route=94
next_type=Hwy
next_route=102

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. It passes through Chapleau, Foleyet, Timmins, South Porcupine, Porcupine and Matheson. It measures just under 400 km in length, all two-lane paved except for an undivided urban four-lane section through Timmins, from Government Road in Mountjoy to Porcupine.

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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