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Ontario Highway 5A

former highway in Ontario

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ7094753 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ontario Highway 5A (1937–1953), as a former Connecting Link in the Ontario Provincial Highway Network, bypassed portions of Ontario Highway 5 within what is now Toronto. There were two discontinuous segments:

Dundas Street, Scarlett Road, and St. Clair Avenue from Highway 5 (Islington) eastward to Highway 11 (Yonge Street, Toronto).

Eglinton Avenue from Victoria Park Avenue (then Dawes Road, Scarborough) eastward to Ontario Highway 2 (Kingston Road); renumbered as Highway 109 in 1953.

Editorial summary

“Ontario Highway 5A” enters the record as former highway in Ontario. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ontario, Highway and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1953—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ontario, Highway and former.
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“Ontario Highway 5A” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ontario, Highway and former provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7094753. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ontario Highway 5A” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.