Modern Highways [2] Formerly the Kingston Road, this was the first provincial highway in Ontario. Paved from Belleville to Shannonville in 1921, to Marysville in 1923. Fully paved from Windsor to the Quebec border by 1927. [7] Highway 7 from Peterborough to Madoc was assumed from existing roads in 1930. The extension eastward from Madoc to Perth was all-new highway to provide an alternative to Highway 2 between Toronto and Ottawa. Tough terrain made this the Largest highway construction project undertaken by the Department of Highways of Ontario up to that time. The Highway 7 extension was a large Depression-era public works program, enlisting more than 2,700 men in 1931 and 1932. [14] The Picton-Belleville Road and the Belleville-Foxboro Road became Highway 14 in 1921. The highway was extended through Stirling to Marmora, then truncated at Foxboro at Highway 62. [28] Originally the Burleigh Falls-Bancroft Road, Highway 28 provides an east-west route across northern Hastings County through Bancroft. [33] This highway meanders down the western side of Hastings County from Stirling to Trenton, then curls south and east across Prince Edward County as the Loyalist Parkway. [37] Intended in the 1930s to be a shortcut between Highway 2 at Belleville and Highway 7, it is still used today by trucks and other commercial vehicles as the shortest distance between Toronto and Ottawa. [62] Running parallel to the old Hastings Colonization Road, this highway was constructed on a new bypass between Millbridge and L’Amable in 1938. [401] Construction on parts of Highway 401 began in Oshawa prior to the Second World War. The portion across Hastings County was finished in the 1950s. Source: www.thekingshighway.ca