Highway 10 (Ontario)
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| Length: | 137.3 km (85.3 mi) | |||
| History: | Established September 1848 Designated February 26, 1920 |
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| South end: | Northern terminus of  Highway 410 – Caledon
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 Highway 9 – Orangeville Highway 89 – Shelburne
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  Highway 21 / Highway 26 – Owen Sound
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| Major cities: | Owen Sound, Brampton | |||
| Towns: | Markdale, Shelburne, Orangeville, Caledon | |||
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King's Highway 10, commonly referred to as Highway 10 and historically as the Toronto–Sydenham Road or often as Hurontario Street, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway connects the northern end of Highway 410 with the city of Owen Sound on the southern shores of Georgian Bay, passing through the towns of Orangeville and Shelburne as well as several smaller villages along the way.
The highway was established in 1920 as one of the original provincial highways. It was extended south by 1937 to Highway 2 in Port Credit. That same year, it became the site of the first interchange in Canada at The Middle Road. Since the late 1990s, the southern end has been truncated to its current terminus north of the Brampton–Caledon border.
Highway 10 follows a route originally carved through the virgin forests of Upper Canada in 1848. Its route has remained largely unchanged since that time, and the highway still divides many of the towns it serves, with the exception of Orangeville. It acts as the baseline for the Regional Municipality of Peel; perpendicular sidelines are divided into East and West halves in several cases by the highway.
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