Ontario Highway 6 facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
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| Length | 472.4 km (293.5 mi) | |||
| Existed | June 1920–present | |||
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| South end | St. Patrick Street - Port Dover | |||
 Highway 3 – Jarvis Highway 403 – Ancaster Highway 401 – Morriston Highway 7 – Guelph Highway 89 – Mount Forest Highway 10 – Chatsworth  Highway 21 / Highway 26 – Owen Sound |
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| North end |  Highway 17 – McKerrow |
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| Major cities: | Hamilton, Guelph, Owen Sound | |||
| Towns: | Port Dover, Jarvis, Hagersville, Caledonia, Ancaster, Aberfoyle, Fergus, Arthur, Mount Forest, Durham, Chatsworth, Shallow Lake, Wiarton, Tobermory, Little Current, Espanola | |||
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→Ontario Highway 6 is a provincial highway in Ontario, Canada. It is 472.4 kilometers (293.5 miles) long. It starts in the community of Port Dover and ends at the Trans-Canada Highway (Ontario Highway 17) in Baldwin, Ontario. The highway is divided into two parts. A ferry runs between one end in Tobermory, on the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula, and the other in Tehkummah, on Manitoulin Island.
Work on the highway started in 1919 and was finished in 1923.
Images for kids
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Looking south on Highway 6 through the La Cloche Mountains near Whitefish Falls
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Highway 6 begins its concurrency with Highway 21 in Springmount, east of Owen Sound. The two highways form the only wrong-way concurrency in the provincial highway network.
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Highway 6 looking south near Wiarton.
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Chi-Cheemaun docking at Carlton Street
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Looking south from the northern terminus of ON6
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Highway 6 south of Guelph in 1921
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The grand entrance to Hamilton, along what is now York Boulevard, was constructed in the early 1930s as one of the earliest examples of elegant road and bridge design in the province, and was used as the prototype for The Middle Road.
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The Hanlon Expressway in Guelph
