History of King's Highway 102 (#1):
King's Highway 102 was created in 1947 when the four-lane divided highway known as Highway 8D between Dundas and Hamilton was renumbered as Highway 102.
This highway had initially been built in the 1930s as a bypass to divert through traffic using Highway 8 away from a series of steep hills and sharp
curves on the highway at Binkley's Hollow between Hamilton and Dundas. The new divided highway was completed and officially opened to traffic in 1937. The
Hamilton-Dundas Highway was one of the first divided highways ever built in Ontario and it served as a model for other four-lane divided highways built in
the late 1930s, the most notable of which were the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) and the initial phases of Highway 2A (later known as Highway 401). Although
the highway was officially designated as Highway 8D from 1937 until it was renumbered as Highway 102 in 1947, this road was more often referred to as the
Dundas Diversion or the Hamilton-Dundas Highway. Highway 102 was retained in the provincial highway system until April 1964, when it was formally
decommissioned. The highway is now known as Cootes Drive (Hamilton Road 8). A different, unrelated Highway 102 has existed in the Thunder Bay area since
the early 1970s.
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