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49-534: Several sections of rebuilt local roads were incorporated into the Ferguson Highway, with the final link being completed through the thick forest of Temagami . The highway was officially opened on July 2, 1927, and was named in honour of Premier George Howard Ferguson . It quickly became an important access route to settlements and tourist areas in Northern Ontario. Although it was named for

98-489: A connection between the communities of Latchford and Cobalt , the latter of which was already connected with nearby Haileybury . In 1912, following the passing of the Northern and Northwestern Development Act, which allocated funding towards the development of trunk roads, it was gravelled north of Cobalt and extended to New Liskeard. After Ferguson's victory, construction began immediately on two sections. The first section

147-573: A location to shoot feature films and TV episodes. Films include the 1941 Captains of the Clouds filmed on Jumping Cariboo Lake (starring James Cagney , Brenda Marshall and Dennis Morgan),1930 docudrama The Silent Enemy and from 2006 That Beautiful Somewhere . TV includes Survivorman episodes (Plane Crash, and Temagami Hunting Deep Woods) and Mantracker episodes (Ryder and Brendyn, and Ben and Darrell). Department of Northern Development The Ministry of Transportation ( MTO )

196-737: A series of roadblocks by the TAA and by the Temagami Wilderness Society in 1988–1989. The Temagami First Nation's former chief Gary Potts was the leader of the TAA blockades. In 1991 the TAA and the Ontario government created the Wendaban Stewardship Authority to decide what to do with the four townships near the logging road. On January 1, 1998, the Township of Temagami was greatly enlarged through

245-407: Is a gravel road in the municipality of Temagami , Northeastern Ontario , Canada . It runs in a north–south direction, connected on both ends by Highway 11 . 19 km (12 mi) long. Tonomo Lake Road was originally part of the Ferguson Highway, which has been replaced by Highway 11. By 1940, the portion of Ferguson Highway comprising Wilson Lake Road was bypassed. Highway 11 is now situated on

294-524: Is excellent for canoeing and hiking . There are numerous viewpoints in the municipality, including High Rock and Caribou Mountain , which contains a 100 ft (30 m) fire tower on its summit. Lakes located within the Municipality of Temagami include: Localities located within Temagami's municipal boundaries are: Note: Only the eastern halves of Scholes and Clement townships are within

343-547: Is known as n'Daki Menan , the homeland of the area's First Nations community, most of whom are Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), living on Bear Island . The official name for this group is the Temagami First Nation . However, a larger group that includes these people, plus non-status residents and some non-residents is called the Teme-Augama Anishnabai . Some of the main tourist attractions within

392-621: Is no mention in the Annual Reports of what agency actually performed this function; it is, however, likely that it was a form of, or precursor to, the Motor Vehicles Branch. In 1919, a Registrar of Motor Vehicles, as head of the Motor Vehicles Branch, is clearly identified. In 1917, the Provincial Highway Act was passed, giving the department authority to maintain and construct leading roads throughout

441-583: Is provided by the Ontario Provincial Police , certain law enforcement functions are provided by MTO Transportation Enforcement Officers and Ministry of Environment Emissions Enforcement Officers. Ministry of Transportation Enforcement Officers (TEOs) enforce a variety of provincial highway safety legislation specific to operators of commercial vehicles. Driver hours of service, cargo securement, dangerous goods transportation, weights and dimensions, and vehicle maintenance and roadworthiness are

490-735: Is provided on local hiking trails and canoe routes. The inspiration and wonder of the area were brought to millions around the world in 1907 when Grey Owl arrived in Temagami. He was employed by Keewaydin Canoe Camp as a guide, and later by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests as a ranger . His subsequent books and extensive lecturing in Britain and the United States brought tremendous attention to northeastern Ontario and wildlife conservation . In 1968, Temagami

539-601: Is the provincial ministry of the Government of Ontario that is responsible for transport infrastructure and related law in Ontario , Canada. The ministry traces its roots back over a century to the 1890s, when the province began training Provincial Road Building Instructors. In 1916, the Department of Public Highways of Ontario (DPHO) was formed and tasked with establishing a network of provincial highways. The first

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588-475: The Ministry of Transportation and Communications in 1972 as part of a government wide reorganization. In September 1987, the responsibilities for communications were transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Communications , and the ministry was renamed the Ministry of Transportation . Maintenance work is performed in two different ways: A list of Area Maintenance contractors currently under contract with

637-653: The Peterson Road . Thomas J. McMurray established Bracebridge in the spring of 1861 at the northernmost point of the Muskoka Road where it intersected the Peterson Road. The road was completed as far as Utterson in 1862. Over the next decade, work progressed on the northward extension of the Muskoka Road through Vernon Lake , Huntsville and the unsurveyed territory north to Emsdale , eventually reaching Burk's Falls in 1878. Between 1881 and 1887,

686-483: The Department of Highways, thus bringing all highway work in the province under one administration. On July 1, 1957, legislation was passed which established a separate Department of Transport , and the Motor Vehicles Branch was transferred to this new department. The new department assumed responsibilities for vehicle licensing, vehicle inspection, driver examination, driver licensing and improvement, traffic engineering, accident claims, and highway safety. In addition, it

735-705: The Department of Public Works prior to 1931 and seems to have been in a quasi-subordinate relationship with this department. In 1916, the Motor Vehicles Branch was established within the Ontario Department of Public Highways. Prior to this, responsibility for the registering and licensing of motor vehicles rested with the Provincial Secretary (a responsibility it held since 1903). Although there are references to motor vehicle licensing and registration between 1916 and 1918, there

784-489: The MTO includes: Area term contracts (ATCs) are the latest maintenance and construction alternative being reviewed by the MTO. ATCs, if they are approved for tender, will cover all maintenance operations now performed by AMC contractors, but will also include annual pavement maintenance and replacement work, bridge rehabilitation, minor capital construction programs and corridor management. While policing on most MTO-managed roads

833-463: The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC), which then became the Ministry of Transportation in 1987. The MTO is in charge of various aspects of transportation in Ontario, including the establishment and maintenance of the provincial highway system , the registration of vehicles and licensing of drivers, and the policing of provincial roads, enforced by the Ontario Provincial Police and

882-654: The Office of the Commissioner of Highways from 1900 until 1910. He was tasked with training Provincial Road Building Instructors. These instructors worked to establish specifications for the almost 90,000 kilometres (56,000 mi) of county - and township - maintained roads. The name of the office was changed to the Commissioner of Highways and transferred to the Department of Public Works in 1900. By 1910,

931-572: The Temagami area occurred in the year 2000. Minerals in the Temagami area include aragonite , brochantite , calcite , Chalcopyrite , jasper , magnetite , molybdenite , pentlandite , pyrite , pyrrhotite , serpentine , and talc . A bright white palladium mercury telluride mineral was discovered on Temagami Island in 1973 called temagamite , named after its discovery locality in Copperfields Mine , originally known as Temagami Mine. Temagami provides rugged topography , which

980-702: The Temagami area. The Attorney General of Ontario pursued legal action against the Band for this caution. The TAA lost this court case in 1984 and the Band proceeded with an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada . The Band lost this appeal and eventually the caution was lifted. In 1988, the Ontario Minister of Natural Resources , Vince Kerrio approved the expansion of the Red Squirrel Road , directly through Anishnabe territory. This prompted

1029-640: The amalgamation of the Department of Northern Development into the Department of Highways on April 1. The vast majority of the Ferguson Highway has been bypassed by the provincial highway network ; however, a select few sections were incorporated into the alignment of Highway 11, while others remain as portions of, from south to north, Highway 11B , Highway 562 , Highway 571 , Highway 573 , Highway 112 , Highway 66 and Highway 668 . The remaining sections have either become local access roads or have been abandoned and subsequently consumed by nature. Tonomo Lake Road

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1078-602: The area. The Temagami area also contains some pillow lava about 2 billion years old, indicating that great submarine volcanoes existed during the early stages of the formation of the Earth's crust . There are a number of northwest trending faults in the Temagami East claim block area and are associated with the Saint Lawrence rift system and remains seismically active . The most recently felt earthquake in

1127-578: The area. There are several outfitters here that cater to outdoor activity. The community is home to the Finlayson Point Provincial Park , which itself offers access to Lake Temagami. An excellent view of the entire Temagami area is offered by the Temagami Fire Tower on Caribou Mountain , a renovated 100 ft (30 m)-tall fire lookout tower that visitors can climb free of charge. The Temagami Fire Tower

1176-546: The arrival of motor vehicles proper road development an maintenance was needed. The earliest Ontario government office responsible for roads and transportation was the position of the Provincial Instructor in Road-Making , first appointed in 1896 and attached to the Ontario Department of Agriculture . A.W. Campbell held the position of Provincial Instructor in Road-Making from 1896 to 1900 and Director of

1225-496: The community include old-growth red and white pine , Lake Temagami , Caribou Mountain , fishing , showings of Grey Owl from the 1930s, and over 4,000 km (2,500 mi) of canoe routes. It is also known as the staging point for cottage vacationing and wilderness canoeing trips on Lake Temagami, in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park , and vast tracts of wilderness in

1274-536: The east side of Jumping Cariboo Lake . Even though the Ferguson Highway was created for people to travel, most visited Temagami by train until the highway was improved in the 1950s. An old bridge built as part of the Ferguson Highway still stands on the road. Temagami Temagami , formerly spelled Timagami , is a municipality in northeastern Ontario , Canada , in the Nipissing District with Lake Temagami at its heart. The Temagami region

1323-494: The east. The land was divided into familial hunting and trapping territories. Since the main east–west fur trade route bypassed Temagami to the south, settlement of this area by Europeans did not come until 1834. That year the Hudson's Bay Company built a store on Temagami Island , which later relocated to Bear Island . The town itself was founded by Dan O'Connor , who in 1903 formed the O'Connor Steamboat and Hotel Company on

1372-466: The final 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Temagami to North Bay way opened to traffic, having taken the longest to construct through the impenetrable Temagami Forest . The fully gravelled North Bay to Cochrane Trunk Road was ceremoniously opened by William Finlayson , the Department of Lands and Forests , on July 2, 1927, and named in honour of Ferguson. The route was later assumed as an extension of Highway 11 throughout June 1937, following

1421-583: The goal of creating a provincial highway network. The department assumed all the functions of the Highways Branch. The department assumed its first highway, the Provincial Highway , on August 21, 1917. On February 20, 1920, the department assumed several hundred kilometres of new highways, formally establishing the provincial highway system. Although established as a separate department, the Department of Public Highways shared ministers with

1470-462: The lake and established its first store on the future townsite. By 1906, he had built three hotels on Lake Temagami: Hotel Ronnoco, Temagami Inn, and Lady Evelyn Hotel and by 1910 the company operated ten steamships on the lake including the Belle of Temagami . Discoveries of gold , copper , nickel , and particularly silver in 1903, brought mining to nearby Cobalt and accelerated development of

1519-640: The largest single exposure of Precambrian rocks in the world which were formed after the Earth's crust cooled. Temagami land has striking similarities to the Sudbury Structure , which is one of the richest mining camps in the world. The hills in the Temagami area are remnants of the oldest mountain ranges in North America that date back during the Precambrian era. These enormous mountains were taller than any that exist today. The uplifting

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1568-543: The man who campaigned to premiership on the promise of building the road, the Ferguson Highway was an inevitable extension of the Muskoka Colonization Road that came to be known as part of it. Construction of the Muskoka Road began at a portage site at the mouth of the Severn River where a harbour known as Washago was established. In 1858, work began on a trail north towards the survey line of

1617-671: The merger with 17 unincorporated townships and became the Municipality of Temagami with town status . In the summer of 1905, the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (now the Ontario Northland Railway) was completed from North Bay to New Liskeard and allowed direct access to the area and the Clay Belt around Lake Timiskaming , opening up the region to settlement and development. The original Temagami station , which opened in 1907, burnt down in 1909 and

1666-626: The ministry's in-house enforcement program (Commercial vehicle enforcement). The MTO is responsible for: Early roads in Ontario were cleared when needed for local use and connections to other settlements. Key roads such as Yonge Street and Kingston Road were cleared by order from officials by various parties such as settlers, British Army units (portion of Yonge c.  1795 Queen's Rangers ) or private contractors (Toronto to Trent section of Kingston Road c. 1799-1800 by Asa Danforth ). Road standards varied (poor in winter or after rainfall) and used by horses or horse drawn stagecoaches. With

1715-443: The municipality of Temagami. Camps include: In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Temagami had a population of 862 living in 432 of its 928 total private dwellings, a change of 7.5% from its 2016 population of 802 . With a land area of 1,878.12 km (725.15 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.5/km (1.2/sq mi) in 2021. Temagami and surrounding areas have been used as

1764-553: The office was generally referred to as the Highways Branch . In 1910, W.A. McLean, Provincial Engineer of Highways, succeeded A.W. Campbell as the director of the Highways Branch. Under considerable pressure from the Ontario Good Roads Association and the ever-increasing number of drivers, which the province itself licensed at that time, the Department of Public Highways was formed in 1916 with

1813-1143: The predominant focus of TEO inspection activities. Ontario's Highway Traffic Act, its regulations, the Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act, and the Dangerous Goods Transportation Act are core pieces of legislation from which TEOs derive their enforcement authorities. TEOs conduct commercial vehicle inspections using a standardized procedure established by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA). Transportation Enforcement Officers inspect commercial vehicles, their loads, and driver's qualifications and documentation. They collect evidence, issue provincial offence notices or summons to court for violations, and testify in court. Transportation Enforcement Officer deployment ranges from highway patrol and Truck Inspection Station (TIS) duties, audits of commercial vehicle operators, inspection and monitoring of bus and motor-coach operators, and

1862-407: The province as provincial highways (designated King's highways in 1930). The Department of Public Highways was renamed the Department of Highways in 1931 and was assigned its own minister, Leopold Macaulay , though Macaulay later held both portfolios in 1934. In 1937, the Department of Northern Development , previously responsible for highways in the northern parts of the province, was merged into

1911-922: The region was home to the last Old-growth forests in Ontario. Logging of the vast pine stands only began in the 1920s. Now just a few patches of old growth remain, including the White Bear Forest (12.42 km  [4.80 sq mi]) and the world's largest stand of old-growth red and white pine forest - the Obabika Old-Growth Forest or Wakimika Triangle Forest part of the Obabika River Waterway Provincial Park (25 km  [9.7 sq mi]). This has led to confrontation in recent years between loggers and environmentalists when new logging access roads are built or major logging operations are proposed. Access to many old-growth areas

1960-568: The region. Several mines opened in Temagami, including Big Dan Mine , Little Dan Mine , Barton Mine , Hermiston-McCauley Mine , Temagami-Lorrain Mine , Priest Mine , Beanland Mine , Sherman Mine , Kanichee Mine , Northland Pyrite Mine and Copperfields Mine , which once mined the richest copper ore in Canada. The Forest Reserves Act of 1898 established the 15,000 km (5,800 sq mi) Temagami Forest Reserve. Because of this reserve,

2009-426: The route was pushed to Sundridge, where an existing road connected to South River , at which point work concentrated on opening up access roads to nearby railway stations and resources. It would take a quarter-century for construction to resume on the road. In 1912, work began south from North Bay towards Powassan . Upon the completion of that section, the remaining 20 miles (32 km) between Powassan and South River

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2058-400: Was a 32-kilometre (20 mi) gravel road built south from Latchford to Temagami ; the second was a 240-kilometre (150 mi) road, mostly gravelled, built north from New Liskeard to Cochrane via Earlton , Englehart , Dane , Swastika , Matheson , Monteith and Porquis Junction . Both were complete by 1925. The Latchford–Cobalt section was also given a gravel surface that year. In 1926,

2107-603: Was accomplished as enormous pressure caused the earth to buckle in a process called folding . Other processes, such as volcanic activity and geologic faulting in which the earth cracks open also contributed to the formation of these mountains. Over millions of years, these enormous mountains were gradually eroded to the land we know today in Temagami. The rocks that form Temagami to this day are igneous , metamorphic and sedimentary rock . The Temagami area has good potential to host diamondiferous kimberlites and more diamond bearing kimberlites may continue to be discovered in

2156-474: Was built. In 1916, it became possible for the first time to drive from Toronto to North Bay without travelling through Pembroke . In June 1923, Howard Ferguson campaigned to victory, with one of his pledges being the construction of a trunk road from North Bay to the farmland of New Liskeard and the mineral resources of Kirkland Lake and Cochrane. By then, a gravel road had already been constructed between Latchford and New Liskeard. This road started as

2205-406: Was designated in 1918, and by the summer of 1925, sixteen highways were numbered. In the mid-1920s, a new Department of Northern Development (DND) was created to manage infrastructure improvements in northern Ontario ; it merged with the Department of Highways of Ontario (DHO) on April 1, 1937. In 1971, the Department of Highways took on responsibility for Communications and in 1972 was reorganized as

2254-457: Was incorporated, first as an Improvement District, and 10 years later as a Township , consisting of the geographic townships of Strathy and Strathcona , together with parts of Briggs , Chambers , Best , Cassels, and Yates townships. In 1973, The Teme-Augama Anishnabai (TAA) exercised a land caution against development on the Crown land of 10,000 km (3,900 sq mi), most of

2303-404: Was last used in the 1970s to spot fires. The original fire tower built here was 45 ft (14 m) high and made of square timber. The Municipality of Temagami also includes the communities of Lake Temagami, Marten River , and Temagami North . Anishnabai legends describe them migrating from the east coast of North America after a warning from prophets concerning the arrival of a danger from

2352-543: Was rebuilt. Temagami station was a stop on the Northlander railway service before it was cancelled in 2012. Temagami is served by Ontario Northland 's intercity motor coach service along its North Bay – Hearst route, which also serves many communities along the former Northlander route. There is currently no local bus service in Temagami. The Temagami land is part of the Canadian Shield , one of

2401-617: Was responsible for the Ontario Highway Transport Board. In May 1971, the Department of Transport and the Department of Highways were amalgamated to form the Department of Transportation and Communications . The new department was presided over by the Charles MacNaughton , who had been both the Minister of Highways and the Minister of Transport prior to the amalgamation. The department was renamed

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