Highway 39 (Ontario)
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| Length: | 33.8 km (21.0 mi) | ||||||||||||
| Existed: | 1934 – 1970 (re-numbered as Highway 2) | ||||||||||||
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| West end: | Highway 3B in Windsor, Ontario | ||||||||||||
| East end: | Former Highway 2 in Belle River, Ontario | ||||||||||||
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| Counties: | Essex County, Ontario | ||||||||||||
| Major cities: | Windsor, Tecumseh, St. Clair Beach, Puce, Belle River, Ontario | ||||||||||||
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King's Highway 39, commonly referred to as Highway 39, was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The 34.6-kilometre (21.5 mi)-long route connected Highway 3 in downtown Windsor with Highway 2 south of Belle River, travelling along the southern shoreline of Lake St. Clair. Highway 39 was established in 1934. In 1961, the Pike Creek Bypass was opened and Highway 39 was rerouted along it. However, the entire route was renumbered as Highway 2 in 1970, retiring the designation from the provincial highway system. Highway 2 was itself decommissioned along the former route of Highway 39 on January 1, 1998 and transferred to Essex County and the City of Windsor. It was subsequently redesignated as Essex County Road 22.
Highway 39 began in downtown Windsor at the intersection of Ouellette Avenue and Riverside Drive, which was also the terminus of Highway 3B, Highway 18 and Highway 98. Highway 3B, Highway 98 as well as Highway 2 (which continued along Riverside Drive to the Ambassador Bridge) travelled concurrently south along Outlette Avenue to Tecumseh Boulevard. There, the designations split, with Highway 3B branching west and the others branching east. At Howard Avenue, Highway 2 and Highway 98 branched south, while Highway 39 continued east along Tecumseh Boulevard out of Windsor. At Banwell Road, Highway 39 jogged south from Tecumseh Boulevard to the Pike Creek Bypass, now Essex County Road 22, which it gently curved east onto. It followed that modern route south of Pike Creek, through Puce and Belle River, then curved south to end at Highway 2
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