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List of Ontario provincial highways

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ913449 ↗
Source-derived summary

Provincial highways in Ontario include all roads maintained by the Ministry of Transportation as part of Ontario's provincial highway network.

King's Highway

Although all roads in the provincial highway network are under the name King's Highway,

the term is primarily associated with the highways numbered 2 through 148, the 400-series highways and the Queen Elizabeth Way.

400-series highways

Secondary highways

Tertiary roads

7000-series highways

The following is a list of the unsigned 7000-series highways as of October 2020. This list is compiled using the official MTO Provincial Highway Network and MTO Jurisdiction datasets.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Ontario provincial highways” 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.