Talk:The Middle Road

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Did you know... that Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?

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More research is required on the history of Middle Road. I doubt that it existed in 1850. I know that Etobicoke Creek was bridged at Middle Road in 1909.^[1] This suggests that Middle Road existed before 1931. More work is required here.Rdmoore6 (talk) 20:10, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In case it helps, here is a site at McGill University containing digitized copies of old survey atlases from the mid- to late-19th century (site says 1874-1881 but the individual maps are undated). If you look at the maps for Peel and Halton counties you can clearly see the concession road which became the Middle Road, although it's not labelled on either map. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 21:22, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have patched up the article by adding a sentence to first paragraph and a whole paragraph in History on the original Middle Road. IMHO Article might still benefit from reorganization with more emphasis on chronology. I plan to add an article on the 1909 bridge is it has considerable importance in engineering history.Rdmoore6 (talk) 19:43, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Frank Barber (1909). "CONCRETE TRUSS BRIDGE: THE FIRST IN CANADA" (PDF). Canadian Engineer. 17: 567.

There is a bit of overlap between the Queen Elizabeth Way article and this article. Some misinformation about Toronto Hamilton Highway (it opened without modern bridges) appears here. Perhaps the two articles should be merged.Rdmoore6 (talk) 19:43, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[FBCE09-1] Frank Barber (1909). "CONCRETE TRUSS BRIDGE: THE FIRST IN CANADA" (PDF). Canadian Engineer. 17: 567.

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