Talk:List of Ontario colonization roads

message: This article requires Links to pages about specific Colonization Roads. Monk Road for instance was not "Monk Historical Colonization Road," but simply Monk Road, there was only one Monk Road in Ontario. For information on Monk Road, see John Allan Snow, likely the same person for whom Snow Road was named. Snow Road, Ontario also known as Snow Road Station was where the Kingston and Pembroke Railway crossed the Snow Road. 
For information on Elora, Saugeen, Goderich, Southampton, Garrafraxa, Peterson, Muskoka, and Victoria colonization roads see Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online David Gibson and other surveyors involved in their construction. W W 02:32, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: I would like to submit the following information for inclusion in your article.
Bobcaygeon Road was surveyed from Port Hope, Ontario to Nipissing, Ontario, however only a few portions of the road were actually constructed:
Ont Highway 28 & 7B, Port Hope to Fowlers Corners; Victoria Co. Rd 17, King's Wharf to Bobcaygeon; Ont Highway 649 (now City of Kawartha Lakes 49) Bobcaygeon, to Galena Hill;  Ont Highway 121 (now City of Kawartha Lakes 121) Galena Hill to Minden.
Many thanks
Cli0019 04:20, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was actually surveyed as far north as Bell's line, a east-west road that no longer exists. Highway 35 north of Minden followed this road, but in the 1950s and 1960s it was realigned to be smooth. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 15:22, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bobcaygeon Road 

message: List of Ontario roads with historic plaques
Most of these are historic roads, besides the Trans Canada. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 04:24, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliable reference 

message: Wanted to bring up Durham Road in Bruce County for inclusion on the list. It forms part of Ontario Highway 9 (the info might be added in brief to that article too). See Settlement history - Durham Road, a transcription of an article that appeared in the Kincardine News on July 30, 1969, at the Bruce County Historical Society web site. Another resource might be the map at Township of Kincardine, from the Canadian County Atlas Project at McGill University, which has the road labelled. -papageno (talk) 04:01, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally I'd recommend adding it to Ontario Highway 9's early history. The colonization road program was strictly the roads through central Ontario built after 1850. Another article like this, however, could be created on the settlement roads of southwestern Ontario: the Durham Road, Huron Road (Hwy 8), Bluewater Highway (Hwy 21), Toronto-Sydenham Road (Hwy 10), Garafraxa Road (Hwy 6), etc. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 04:35, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Added to article about Ontario Highway 9.--papageno (talk) 16:41, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Durham Road 

message: Is the "Nipissing Road" in the article perhaps the "Rosseau and Nipissing Road"? I find the latter designation for a road on several Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources township mining claim maps, including one for Lount Township, Ontario and another for Pringle Township (see the second map in the series in the PDF for the south portion of the township; the second map is a relatively recent mapping). There also seems to be an Ontario historic plaque for the "The Rosseau-Nipissing Road" per The Rosseau-Nipissing Road. --papageno (talk) 18:55, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, they'd be the same road. My 1984 source from the MTO labels it as just the Nipissing Road (as does the identical map of all the roads which is on display at the Ontario Archives), but it doesn't provide much more than a table with towns, dates opened, and lengths. I'd say the plaque is the most reliable source; it would be very extensively fact-checked before being produced. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 19:00, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nipissing Road" is "Rosseau and Nipissing Road"? 

message: The section on the Parry Sound Road just has a list of roads and places, and I'm not sure what it is trying to say. The section was called "Parry Sound", but I renamed it because Parry Sound appears to be the name of a town, not the road. However, I can't really find any substantial information on the Parry Sound Road, although it does appear to exist. If anyone with a little more knowledge on the subject could help out, it'd be greatly appreciated! Pupsterlove02 talk • contribs 12:36, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that this article is an absolute mess, but so is the history of the colonization roads unfortunately. I've only done a small amount of research into specific ones. The real issue with them is the official-unofficial status they had, as government crews weren't exactly laying asphalt in the 1860s and mostly they were just vaguely designated trails that settlers were instructed to follow to get to their plots of land. You will also often see 2-3 different names for them, and some are alterations/evolutions of each other. I haven't found any evidence that this particular Parry Sound Road exists, at least as it's described. It's logical that the Muskoka Road and Great North Road need an intermediary to connect them, but it seems unlikely it would connect at Falkenburg Station, as that settlement was seemingly only founded in the 1890s for railway purposes. It's more logical that it would have been at Falkenburg, which is where the Muskoka Road terminated before it was extended in the 1870s. I believe that this whole article needs an extensive revamp by someone educated on the subject who is able to sort out the relationships between the different roads and the ways different ones replaced/supplanted each other. Julius177 (talk) 20:08, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Parry Sound Road