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Laying a new stone block surface at East 23d & Broadway, late 1920s.

Photo: U.S. Dep't of Transportation/Wikimedia Commons

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"TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY NEARING COMPLETION," Toronto Star. March 27, 1934. Page 2. ---- East and west sections of the Trans-Canada highway will be completed this year. The western section here shown runs from Schreiber to Nipigon, Oskondigo, English River, Dyment, Vermillion, Kenora and the Manitoba boundary. Between the east and west sections a compromise route is to be taken, according to announcement by Hon. William Finlayson. This will run from Cochrane to Hearst and southwest to White River, joining at that point with a section to be built northwest from the Soo. The Trans-Canada is 1,300 miles long in Ontario and to date the road has cost $12,000,000.

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"Construction Work Started," Border Cities Star. May 9, 1934. Page 7. ---- ON NO. 3 HIGHWAY ---- Eliminating Ditches And Widening Shoulders ---- The elimination of ditches and the widening of shoulders on King's Highway No. 3 between Leamington and Windsor started this morning, according to Col. C. K. S. Macdonell, resident engineer of the Ontario Department of Highways, located at Chatham.

The first gang in the construction work to be undertaken in this part of the province began working out of Leamington this morning, as Col. Macdonell stated last night at the meeting of the Essex County Automobile Club in Essex.

Next Monday, the colonel stated, a similar gang will start from Windsor and work toward Essex, the terminus for the construction gang working west from Leamington. Similar construction work, to eliminate ditches and widen the shoulders of King's highways is being undertaken by the department throughout Ontario.

Col. Macdonell stated that the construction work on the unpaved portion of Highway No. 2 in the Township of Maidstone is to be rushed through immediately. Work is to be commenced without delay, the contract having been awarded to the Keystone Construction Company.

Asked whether the Department of Highways considered diverting Highway No. 2 to the north side of the Michigan Central Railway tracks at Tilbury and thus avoid two level crossings, Col. Macdonell was unable to state definitely.

"The plans have been prepared," he told The Star, "but I could not say when the government intends to take action in regard to carrying them out. It would be a fine thing to have the highway diverted to the opposite side of the tracks, as it would eliminate two dangerous crossings."

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"Reports on Road Construction," Owen Sound Sun. September 26, 1913. Page 1. ---- Mr. M. N. McDowall who made a trip to Toronto recently to make a study of methods of road construction there does not give a very encouraging report as to the efficacy of raw tar for the macadam roads. His report, which was submitted to the council on Monday night, was as follows:-

I beg leave to report that I made inquiry in Toronto as to tar macadam. I went to the city hall and had an interview with Mr. Scott, the engineer of road improvements, and also works as commissioner. When asked if they were doing any work in the city with tar they informed me that there had been no tar macadam put down for six or seven years as they found it to be a failure in its crude state. That which was seen was Tarvia and was mistaken for tar, the Tarvia being very satisfactory. They advised me to go the Parliament buildings and see Mr. McLean, engineer of roads and highways. When asked if they would rather have tar in its crude state with the macadam in the old way, they said that they would not recommend it in its crude state for macadamized road. I then went to see Mr. McLean at the Parlia- ment buildings and had a very pleasant interview with him. He also spoke in much the same strain as to tar in its crude state. He said when it was refined it had been very satisfactory. He recommended me to go to Guelph to see how they were using it as they refined it there at the gas plant, and were using it with very good results. I then went to see some brick pavings for crossings and saw a number of samples of brick and wood pavements and by the advice of some of the parties I came in contact with I went to West Toronto. There I went to the works of the Ontario Paving and Brick Co., and think it is very good material that these bricks turn out, for our crossings. I brought a sample with me and by the advice of the committee purchased thirteen thousand at thirty-one dollars per thousand, laid down in Owen Sound. They have arrived and are being laid down and a stone curb placed outside the block and it appears to make a very nice crossing.

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"GALT, PORT DOVER ROAD WILL BE ELECTRIFIED," Berlin News Record (Kitchener, Ont.) July 12, 1913. Page 1. ---- (From Simcoe Reformer.) Engineer Kellatt, of the Lake Erie & Northern, was talking to The Reformer on Monday. He said that the story about the line being exclusively a steam one had no foundation in fact. The line from Galt to Port Dover would be electrified. Of that there was no possible doubt. The board of directors had never considered making it a steam road.

Of course, the roadbed would be of steam standard and the steel heavy. It would be quite possible to run an ordinary steam locomotive, hauling a full complement of loaded cars, over the line any time it was found desirable. But this fact did not clash with the statement that it would be an electrified line.

The T. H. &. B. brakes will not be used. The delay north of Waterford is caused by a difference of opinion as to the merits of two alternative routes. Two complete surveys have been made: one runs through Boston, the other takes a more westerly course and misses Boston by a major more. The final decision will be made in a few days, and it was good betting that construction will be under way in a month.

Mr. Kellatt expects to have the line open from Brantford to Galt by October 1st in time for this fall's business. He places the completion of the whole line and its opening for business, from Port Dover through to Galt, not later than June 1, 1914.

One of the difficulties now con fronting him in Simcoe is to accommodate his plans to the recent purchases of land by the Board of Education. Of this, probably more will be heard in the near future.