History Of Highway 11-17: Tracing the Legacy
Stand on the granite bluffs above Lake Superior, watch the weather swing from fog to sun in an hour, and you begin to grasp why the highway that stitches this shoreline to the boreal beyond has always felt larger than pavement and paint. Highway 11 and Highway 17, braided together between Thunder Bay and Nipigon and linked across Northern Ontario, are a story of national ambition meeting northern grit. They began as rough trails punched through muskeg and rock. They matured into a contiguous cro