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HISTORY Highway 2 was the original road joining together the main settlements of southern Ontario, based on earlier trails and footpaths, and it served as the primary wagon and stage coach route before the arrival of the Grand Trunk Railroad . Most of the towns and cities in the corridor are built around the highway and use it as one of their main streets, many with names like ''Kingston Road'', ''Montreal Road'', or '' Dundas Street ''. Before the Highway 2 designation was applied in the 1920's, the road was commonly referred to as the ''Provincial Road''. Many of the original Nineteenth Century brick inns and taverns along the route still exist, especially in smaller towns and villages, though the buildings have typically passed to other uses. BYPASSING OF HIGHWAY 2 The construction of from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory border to the former Highway 2 turnoff in the south. There is also a small section still in existence from the eastern limit of the Town of Gananoque to Highway 401 . This section is about 200 m (1/8 mile) long. Current designations of Highway 2 as it existed in 1996 :
EAST OF ONTARIO The Highway Designation # 2 continued east of Ontario into Quebec , New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to Halifax . In Quebec, Highway 2, followed the route of the present Quebec Autoroute 20 onto the Island of Montreal . It became Sherbrooke Street in Lachine, Quebec and into the city of Montreal. This became the "Kings Road" (Chemin du Roy) of the North Shore of the St Lawrence River through Trois-Rivières to Quebec City , where it then crossed to the south side of the St. Lawrence by the Quebec Bridge , and continued east to Rivière-du-Loup , then into New Brunswick. Highway numbering changed in Quebec during the 1960s, and Highway 2 became Secondary Highway 338, 138 , 132 , and 185 . |
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