Ontario Highway 68
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| Manitowaning Road | ||||
The Highway 68 designation applied only to the portion of contemporary Highway 6 located on Manitoulin Island and northerly to McKerrow.
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| Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario | ||||
| Length: | 116.8 km (72.6 mi) in 1980 |
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| Existed: | August 11, 1937 – Spring 1980 (renumbered as extension of Highway 6) | |||
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 Highway 17
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 Highway 540 (Meredith Street) – Little Current Highway 542 – Tehkummah
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| South end: | Ferry Dock in South Baymouth | |||
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| Counties: | Sudbury, Manitoulin | |||
| Major cities: | McKerrow, Espanola, Little Current, Manitowaning, South Baymouth | |||
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King's Highway 68, commonly referred to as Highway 68, was a provincially maintained highway on Manitoulin Island, linking the island to the mainland. It was connected to the rest of the network at McKerrow, where it met Highway 17. The road was built in the 1920s as a trunk road for the Department of Northern Development (later merged into the Department of Highways, today's Ministry of Transportation), but was assumed as a provincial highway in 1937, as the only King's Highway on the island. Highway 68 stretched from South Baymouth in the south, through the towns of Manitowaning and Little Current north to Espanola on the mainland.
The entire route was redesignated as an extension of Highway 6 in 1980. It remains part of the provincial highway system under its new designation.
Highway 68 was a 116.8 km (72.6 mi) route that crossed the eastern side of Manitoulin Island in a north–south orientation between South Baymouth and Little Current. North of there, it travelled through the La Cloche Peninsula en route to Espanola and Highway 17. However, in 1980 the route was renumbered as a northern "extension" of Highway 6. The two segments of the highway are connected by the seasonal Chi-Cheemaun ferry service that travels between Tobermory and South Baymouth. This service only operates from May through October.
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