Historical Highway 11 Photographs (1920 to 1939)
Above - Construction crew on Hwy 11 at the foot of Holland Landing Hill (July 1924)
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Above - Postcard view of the Ferguson Highway (Hwy 11) at Lowell Lake (ca. 1930)
Left - Hwy 11 south of Orillia showing new concrete pavement (1931)
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Right - New concrete pavement on Hwy 11 north of Barrie at Crown Hill (1931)
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Left - Widened three lane pavement on Hwy 11 between Newmarket and Aurora in 1933. This widened section of Hwy 11 was Ontario's first multi-lane highway.
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Right - Hwy 11 between Newmarket and Aurora showing new three lane asphalt pavement (1933)
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Above - Postcard view of the Ferguson Highway (Hwy 11) at Jumping Caribou Lake (ca. 1935)
Above - Postcard view of the Ferguson Highway (Hwy 11) approaching the Callander Gateway Sign (ca. 1935)
Left - Rock cut and fill on Hwy 11 south of Powassan (1937)
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Centre - Hwy 11 south of Latchford in 1937, showing rock cut
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Right - Realigned Hwy 11 showing new rock cut north of James Lake (1937)
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Left - Hwy 11 rock cut north of James Lake in 1937, looking north
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Centre - Approaching Callander on Hwy 11, looking north (1937)
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Right - Rock cut 4.5 miles south of Gravenhurst on Hwy 11 (1937)
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Left - Hwy 11, 1/2 mile north of Temagami looking north (1937)
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Centre - Photo of Hwy 11 approaching Temagami from south (1938)
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Right - Curves and hill on Hwy 11, 2 miles south of Temagami (1938)
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Left - Rock cut on Hwy 11 in 1938, 1 mile north of Temagami, looking north
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Centre - Hwy 11 in 1938, looking north towards Latchford
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Right - Curves and hill on old Hwy 11 near Herridge Lake (1938)
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Left - Snowplow in operation on Hwy 11 - Location unknown (1938)
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Right - Grading on the new Nipigon-Geraldton Highway (Hwy 11) in 1938, north of Nipigon
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Above - Grading and construction of the new Nipigon-Geraldton Highway (now Hwy 11) in 1938, showing the towering Palisades of Pijitawabik Bay on Lake Nipigon south of Beardmore. The highway had to be notched out of the talus slope of these giant cliffs.
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Left - View of Hwy 11 at James Lake (1939)
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Centre - Grading on new Hwy 11 in 1939 at Herridge Lake
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Right - Grading and rock cut on new Hwy 11 at Herridge Lake (1939)
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Left - Grading and rock cut on the new Nipigon-Geraldton Highway (Hwy 11) at Lake Helen (1939)
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Right - Grading and rock cut on the new Nipigon-Geraldton Highway (Hwy 11) at Lake Helen (1939)
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Above - New asphalt pavement on Hwy 11 north of North Bay in 1939
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