Talk:Highway 401 (Ontario)

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Contents 1 Notes about history 2 Reliable sourcing 3 Details on the history of the west end 4 Mississauga Service Center

[edit] Notes about history

Earlier names

• Windsor to Quebec Boundary Road/Windsor to Quebec Boundary Highway, entire route
• New Kingston Road, Highland Creek to Oshawa
• "Scenic highway", Gananoque to Brockville
• Toronto By-Pass, Hwy 27 to Hwy 2A; also included Hwy 27 to QEW

Early non-401 improvements to Hwy 2

• St. Joachim provisions (near CR 31, east of Belle River); also west from Chatham
• Woodstock east to Hwy 53 split
• Paris to Burlington: Hwy 5 was being shown as a better route, bypassing Brantford and Hamilton
  • But Hwy 2 was later widened east from Brantford to the Hwy 53 split [1]
• Hwy 5 interchange
• East out of Toronto to the New Kingston Road [2]
• Belleville east to turnoff for Point Anne

Openings

• West end to 56: by 1958
• 56 to 63: by 1963
• 63 to 177: presumably by 1964
  • Note the Highway 135 connection: [3]
• 177 to 238: by 1957
• 238 to 342: presumably by 1964
• 342 to 352: by 1959
• 352 to 357: by 1955
• 357 to 369: by 1953
• 369 to 371: by 1955
• 371 to 392: by 1958
• 392 to 417: by 1950 (as Hwy 2A; became Hwy 401 by 1956)
• 417 to 436: by 1955
• 436 to 509: by 1963
• 509 to Wyman Road (west of 566): by 1960
  • past Belleville: by 1959
• west of 566 to west of 579: presumably by 1964
• west of 579 to 599: by 1963
• 599 to 611: by 1962
• 611 to 623: by 1958
• 623 to 647: by 1960
• 687 to 721: by 1960
• 721 to 738: presumably by 1964
• 738 to Aultsville Road (west of 770): by 1958
• west of 770 to 814: presumably by 1964
• 814 to Quebec: 1964 (last piece of original 401)

I believe everything that was complete in 1960 is listed here. --NE2 18:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reliable sourcing

I believe [4] qualifies as a reliable source. Normally a personal website would not be, but this one was mentioned in detail in the Globe and Mail, and the author (John Shragge) worked for the MTO writing press releases. Thus I will be citing it, at least when I cannot find a better source. --NE2 09:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Details on the history of the west end

• 1959: both spurs there
• 1960: 401 used the tunnel spur, but the bridge spur existed

I'm having trouble finding maps that go far enough away from downtown Windsor. --NE2 23:43, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mississauga Service Center

I know for a fact that there was once an Westbound service center at that location, but it was closed and demolished years ago. If anyone knows what year that occurred, please add it. --99.234.201.111 (talk) 15:25, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I have no recollection of this. I remember them building the now closed east-bound one, but I don't remember a westbound one even then. 1960s? 1970s? Nfitz (talk) 15:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)