page_title: List of Ontario colonization roads
section_title: The Peterson Road
hierarchical_section_title: List of Ontario colonization roads / List of colonization roads / The Peterson Road
caption_attribution_description: English: Plevna (North Frontenac Township), Ontario, Canada
context_page_description: The colonization roads were created during the 1840s and 1850s to open up or provide access to areas in Central and Eastern Ontario for settlement and agricultural development. The colonization roads were used by settlers to lead them toward areas for settlement, much like modern-day highways.
context_section_description: The Peterson Road began in Bracebridge and travelled east to Maynooth, where it met the Hastings Road. From Maynooth, it snaked its way northeast to Barry's Bay to meet the Opeongo Line. It was surveyed by Joseph Peterson and built between 1858 and 1863 at a cost of around $39,000. Poor soil led to little settlement in the area and some sections were already overgrown by the 1870s, but the Maynooth-Combermere section proved to be a useful logging route.
  Today, the section from Bracebridge to Maynooth has mostly been consumed by the forest, though Highway 118 follows adjacent to the old road as far as Haliburton. A small section remains as a local township road east of Carnarvon named Tulip Road. The old road that runs from Haliburton to the north end of Benoir Lake, on the Elephant Lake Road is now untraceable. This part runs through the south end of Algonquin Park.
  The section from Maynooth to Combermere to Barry's Bay is now the route of Highway 62.
caption: Highway 7 in Plevna, the junction of the Mississippi, Frontenac and Snow Roads
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