Durham Regional Road 2
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| Durham Regional Road 2 Kawartha Lakes Road 2 |
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| Simcoe Street Maintained by Durham Region and Kawartha Lakes |
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| Direction: | North/South |
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| North end: | Kawartha Lakes Road 9 (Woodville Road) |
| South end: | Durham Regional Road 62 (Harbour Street) |
| Counties: | Durham Kawartha Lakes |
| Major cities: | Oshawa Scugog Brock Kawartha Lakes |
Durham Regional Road 2, or locally known as Simcoe Street is a main road in the Regional Municipality of Durham and the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. The majority is a regional road, marked and maintained as Durham Regional Road 2 from Harbour Road (Durham Regional Road 62) in Oshawa north via Port Perry and Seagrave to Woodville Road (Kawartha Lakes Road 9) west of Woodville.[1]
The road is sometimes referred to Kawartha Lakes Road 2 north of Durham Regional Road 6 in Seagrave. This is because the road marks the boundary between Durham Region and Kawartha Lakes.[2] The road continues south to Lake Ontario in Oshawa and north to near Bolsover as a locally-maintained roadway. Durham Regional Road 15 is a short east-west road from Beaverton on Lake Simcoe east across Highway 12 to the Kawartha Lakes line; it mostly uses Concession 5, but the portion heading southeast from Beaverton to that road is known as Simcoe Street, as it was part of the original road.
Durham Regional Road 2 was a trail used by the Mississauga Indians to get from their beaver trapping grounds in Osler Marsh (near Lake Scugog) to Oshawa on Lake Ontario, where they traded with the French.[3] It later became a road used by Europeans, connecting Oshawa with Port Perry on Lake Scugog, and extending beyond to Beaverton on Lake Simcoe.[4] In the 1840s, Abram Farewell of Whitby Township advocated the organization of a toll road company to improve the road between Port Perry and Oshawa, allowing grain and timber from the port to reach Lake Ontario at two places (Whitby already had a plank road, now Highway 12).[5] The road was never improved with tolls.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Regional Municipality of Durham, Roads Map, January 2005
- ^ City of Kawartha Lakes city map, accessed September 2007
- ^ Tracey Arial, Hiking in Ontario, 2005, p. 67
- ^ Thomas Griffith Taylor, Canada: A Study of Cool Continental Environments and Their Effect on British and French Settlement, 1950, p. 474
- ^ Leo A. Johnson, "Farewell, Abram", Dictionary of Canadian Biography Volume XI: 1881 to 1900, 1966, p. 311
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