page_title: Ontario Highway 52
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ontario Highway 52 / History
caption_attribution_description: Former Ontario Highway 52 ended oddly at the Hamilton – Wellington County boundary, two kilometres north of former Highway 97. In this photo, Highway&#160;52 enters from the distance, and Gore Road crosses from left to right.
context_page_description: King's Highway 52, commonly referred to as Highway 52, was a provincially maintained highway located in the former Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth, now the City of Hamilton. The route began at a junction with former Highway 2 and Highway 53 near Ancaster and travelled north to Highway 5 and Highway 8 in Peters Corners. An older section travelled concurrently with Highway 8 northwest to Rockton, where it turned north and travelled to the Hamilton–Wellington boundary, ending inexplicably at a township road.
context_section_description: Highway 52 originally travelled from Highway 8 in Rockton north along at least five different township roads over 13 kilometres (8 mi), ending at a local township road at the Wellington/Wentworth County Line. This section was assumed by the Department of Highways on September 1, 1937.
  On April 13, 1938, a dirt road from Peter's Corners south to Highway 2 and Highway 53 (Wilson Street) in Ancaster was assumed as Highway 52. This added a 7-kilometre (4 mi) multiplex with Highway 8, a full quarter of Highway 52's entire length.
  Throughout World War II, the new section of Highway 52 remained unimproved; in 1945 it was gravelled. The road was paved between Highway 2 and Highway 97 in 1955, with the remainder being paved three years later.
  The original section of Highway 52 north of Peters Corners was downloaded to the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth in the mid-1980s, around the same time as the decommissioning of Highway 97. The road's length was reduced to 10.7 kilometres (6.6 mi) and the concurrency with Highway 8 removed. On April 1, 1998, the remainder of Highway 52 was downloaded to the Region of Hamilton-Wentworth, now the City of Hamilton.
  The road has not been given a new numerical designation, and is simply known as Westover Road and Trinity Road.
caption: For most of its existence, Highway 52 ended inexplicably at this intersection with Gore Road, at the Hamilton – Wellington County boundary
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