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Welcome to the unofficial home of
Highway 11 in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
Highway 11 in Ontario begins in an urban metropolis,
travels through modern suburbs, winds through cottage country, and then forms
the backbone of some of Ontario’s most remote areas - making it one of Ontario’s
truly great drives and most interesting journeys. Take a virtual road
trip here.
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If you’re travelling east from Rainy River, start here. |
If you’re travelling west from Barrie, start here. |
You can also start your journey along Highway 11
anywhere you like by selecting any one of the five regions below. For a complete
list of communities, please visit the site map.
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WHAT'S NEW: Just added: Videos, multi-media and the best of the north that's
already on Youtube. Check out the rap video for Thunder Bay.
Coming...umm...eventually: Timmins / Schumacher /
Porcupine (James Bay section) and
even more eventually, the Toronto to Barrie section of Highway 11. Welcome to the Ontario Highway 11 Homepage. This is an unofficial account of the many towns, villages, and hamlets that are found on what some call the world’s longest street – Ontario’s Highway 11.
This website is part virtual road trip, part commentary, part community exhibition, and part travel guide. Running from Yonge Street in Toronto to Atwood Avenue in Rainy River, Highway 11 crosses Ontario like no other highway.
Have you ever wondered…
If you’ve ever asked these questions, this site is for you -- take a virtual town-to-town journey along Highway 11 from Barrie to Rainy River online at the unofficial homepage of Ontario’s Highway 11. Plus, many regional towns off the highway are also profiled. So take your pick of where to start and just go.
Each community along the highway has a page detailing my opinions on the town, giving you some idea of its amenities, facilities, and idiosyncrasies, and, most importantly, its history.
Where possible I have provided photos and links to sites of local interest. The page is meant to preserve community histories and capture both the serious and the silly aspects of the many communities along the world’s longest street – Ontario’s Highway 11. In addition, this site also profiles parts of Highway 17, the TransCanada, running from Nipigon to White River (in the Thunder Bay section.) Take a virtual road trip here.
WHY DO THIS?
I have travelled much (most but not all) of northern Highway 11 and I found myself more than just acquainted with some of these communities – I was becoming fascinated by them.
There are many sites that show pictures of funny things along the sides of highways. But few chronicle the cities, towns, villages, and hamlets that bring life to these roads. Highway 11 is much more than just lonely stretch of pavement that acts as a conveyor belt for good and people from north to south. And that’s when I thought why not put this experience on the web. For those who can’t take a full road trip, you can now take a virtual one.
Ontario’s Highway 11 is pretty special. It runs from Canada’s largest city through some of Canada’s smallest. It starts in the heart of southern Ontario and travels across some of the most remote parts of the province. It forms the backbone of the province and is a lifeline to its most remote regions.
Some call it Canada’s Route 66. Others call it the Transontario. The Guinness Book of World Records claims that Highway 11 is the world’s longest street. No matter what you call it, Highway 11 begins in an urban metropolis, travels through modern suburbs, winds through cottage country, and then gives life tosome of Ontario’s most remote areas - making it one of Ontario’s truly great drives and most interesting journeys. Take a virtual roadtrip here. As for the format,look, and style of commentary, I was inspired by these low-tech but super informative sites - Abseits Guide to German Soccer and the TESG Guide to Road Food Consumption. DISCLAIMER Don’t take this site too seriously.
In addition to preserving the stories of our heritage and the histories of our towns, this website is intended to be a bit of fun while promoting the many unique communities along Highway 11. While I might have the heart of a northern Ontarian, I was born, raised, and continue to live in Ontario's south.
While I try to present things as accurately as possible, please remember that the community profiles and associated commentary are just made up of my own opinions. They are not fact. Write-ups are often based on short visits and quick impressions rather than lengthy visits or detailed research. While I try to be accurate and fair, a few things may be a bit exaggerated for the purpose of entertainment. Heck, sometimes for the sake of entertainment what is written doesn’t even represent my own opinion.
If there’s a comment you don’t like feel free to email me. I don’t mind. Or post you thoughts directly below the profiles. Send me your thoughts and I might even include them. Your thoughts and community profiles of your own are most welcome.
Just don’t take anything here as gospel. They’re just the random musings from a guy form southern Ontario who has been spending more and more time on Highway 11 and figured he’d put it to the web for others to see, to tell the stories that other people might not ever get to know without visiting these towns.
Of course, everything on the internet these days needs an official disclaimer so here it is:
If you have any questions, comments, or have anything to add please email me: info (at) highway11 (dot) ca.
Most photos are my own where they are not my own I have usually noted it on the page (or its painfully obvious as the photo is actually a nice one.)
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