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46-469: Highway 21 was first designated by the Department of Highways (DHO) between Highway 3 and Highway 7 in mid-1927 and extended to Goderich in 1934. A year later, a final extension completed the route to Owen Sound. In 1997 and 1998, the portion of the route south of Highway 402 was transferred to the counties in which it laid. This segment is also known as Oil Heritage Road . Highway 21

92-462: A small bypass of Highway 21 was constructed on the north side of Goderich, avoiding a nearby hairpin turn . The 160 m (520 ft) curving structure over the Maitland River was completed in mid-1961 at a cost of C$ 1.39 million and opened ceremoniously on July 17, 1962. During the early 1980s, the construction of Highway 402 east from Sarnia resulted in a shift in the route of

138-625: Is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario , located within Bruce County . The township had a population of 7,069 in the Canada 2016 Census . Huron-Kinloss is located in Western Ontario, on Lake Huron. It is relatively remote, particularly by the standards of densely populated Southern Ontario and remains a primarily rural region of farmland and woodlots. The lake shore is sparsely populated with

184-525: Is focused on rare, endangered, heirloom, and ethnocultural food plants and showcases over 250 varieties with over 10,000 plants overall in the Phase One development. The region is popular with retirees, with a lake-moderated mild climate and a reputation for a relaxed, friendly lifestyle. The boiler from the Erie Belle explosion lies on Boiler Beach at the northern end of the township. The township comprises

230-412: Is generally smoothly-flowing, but can be somewhat congested through towns during the summer from tourists and cottagers . Highway 21 is often subject to closures at various points as it lies on the lee shore of Lake Huron . Lake effect snow squalls frequently subject motorists to poor visibility and slippery conditions, leading to whiteout conditions. The Ontario Provincial Police claim that

276-595: 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

322-529: Is often subject to winter closures due to lake effect caused by snowsquall , which can create sudden whiteout conditions along the Lake Huron shoreline. Several Emergency Detour Routes have been established further inland to guide drivers around such closures. Care should be taken during the winter months, as the storms can progress rapidly and unexpectedly. Highway 21 is a long lakeside route through Southwestern Ontario , which serves numerous communities along

368-572: 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

414-584: 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

460-470: 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

506-421: The baseline at the shore of Lake Huron until it reaches Sheppardton . There the surveying grid changes orientation, and Highway 21 follows a forced road allowance that meanders approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) inland from lake north to Amberley , where it encounters former Highway 86 , which travels to Waterloo , and enters. The route curves northeast as it enters Bruce County to align with

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552-483: 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

598-679: 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

644-486: 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

690-508: 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

736-580: 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,

782-591: 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

828-454: The communities of Amberley , Bruce Beach, Blair's Grove, Clarks Church, Clover Valley, Holyrood, Kinloss, Kinlough, Langside, Lower Langside, Lucknow , Lurgan Beach, Pine River, Point Clark , Purple Grove, Reid's Corners, Ripley, Verdun, and Whitechurch. The communities can be separated into two groups - inland communities in the rural agricultural area of the township, and lakefront communities with seasonal and full-time residents. The area

874-591: The east towards Owen Sound. Between those two places, the highway is generally straight, except at the boundary between Bruce and Grey Counties as well as the descent of the Niagara Escarpment at Springmount . Several communities line the inland stretch of highway, including Chippewa Hill , Kelly's Corners , Elsinore , Allenford , Alvanley and Jackson . At Springmount, the route encounters Highway 6 , which joins Highway 21 to form Ontario's only wrong-way concurrency east to Owen Sound. Highway 21

920-445: The eastern shoreline of Lake Huron. Once over 100 kilometres (62 mi) longer than it is today, the highway now begins at Highway 402 near the community of Warwick , where it progresses north through the towns of Forest , Grand Bend , Goderich , Point Clark , Kincardine , Tiverton , Port Elgin , and Southampton . At Southampton, the highway veers away from the Lake Huron shoreline and travels east to Owen Sound. The route

966-411: The effort showed when the gap between Petrolia and Edys Mills and the remaining gaps between Dresden and Thamesville were graded and paved by the end of the summer. On October 19, 1934, Highway 21 was officially opened by Robert Mellville Smith , deputy minister of the Department of Highways. On April 4, 1934, Highway 21 was assumed through Huron County as far north as Goderich, which

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1012-570: The former company was more prosperous in its endeavours; in 1886, a significant portion of the Sarnia to Florence Plank Road was closed up and turned over to local property owners. The Black Creek Plank Road Company meanwhile had transformed the muddy quagmire of a path into a well-maintained road. By 1863, three miles of road south of Wyoming had been paved, and the remainder south to Oil Springs planked (the Sarnia Road followed two years later). However, as

1058-568: 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

1104-517: The highway crosses into Huron County and intersects former Highway 83 . Between there and Goderich, the west side of the highway is dominated by roads providing access to shoreline cottages. At Goderich, the route encounters Highway 8 , then crosses the Maitland River along a bypass constructed during the early 1960s; the original routing followed portions of Saltford Street and River Ridge Crescent. The highway proceeds straight north as

1150-457: The highway to its greatest length of 333.1 kilometres (207.0 mi). Meanwhile, on April 11, 1934, the department assumed control of a road connecting Highway 7 with Forest as Highway 21A. It was later extended to connect with Highway 21 at Port Franks on August 19, 1936. By 1938, Highway 21A had been renumbered as Highway 21, and Highway 21 through Thedford renumbered as Highway 82. Beginning in 1960,

1196-483: The highway. The route was extended north from Reece's Corners to Exit 25, while the section from Highway 7 north to Exit 34 was "downloaded" , or transferred to the local municipality in which it resided. With Highway 402 as the connecting provincial link between the two segments of Highway 21, the two parclo interchanges each include a directional ramp to facilitate traffic. Further transfers were performed in 1997 and 1998. On April 1, 1997,

1242-695: The largest employer in the area. With tourism and the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, the local economy is more prosperous than many similar regions. The Town of Ripley, in Huron-Kinloss is home to the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens. This public garden is the first of its kind in Canada using tourism to address the issues of food insecurity , sustainable agriculture and the plight of the small family farm. The non-profit organization

1288-597: The licensing and monitoring of Motor Vehicle Inspection Stations. Blitz-style joint force operations are periodically conducted in concert with provincial and municipal police. Although many Transportation Enforcement Officers are licensed vehicle mechanics, most are not. TEOs hail from various backgrounds including driver licensing examination, automobile repair, commercial truck driving and other law enforcement agencies. MTO's headquarters are located on three campuses: There are five regional offices: Area offices are located in: Pine River, Ontario Huron-Kinloss

1334-626: 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

1380-462: The new highway. Concrete slabs were laid between Petrolia and Highway 7, as well as along a 7.25-kilometre (4.50 mi) section between Thamesville and Dresden. The following year, the route was paved between Dresden and Edys Mills before the effects of the Great Depression forced the department to concentrate on paving Highway 22 . The election of a new government in mid-1934 led to

1426-534: 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

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1472-415: The oil boom faded, so too did improvement to the road. On May   25 and June   1, 1927, the Department of Highways assumed the unpaved road between Highway 7 at Reece's Corner and Highway 3 at Morpeth, via Dresden , Thamesville and Ridgetown as Provincial Highway 21 , which was changed to the current King's Highway 21 in 1930. That year, the department set out to improve

1518-1101: 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

1564-504: The primary town serving Bruce Nuclear Generating Station , traffic must turn to remain on Highway 21. As it exits southeast from the town, the highway makes a broad curve to the northeast and continues through the hamlets of Underwood and North Bruce . As it approaches the southern end of the Bruce Peninsula , the route bisects Port Elgin , then curves abruptly towards Lake Huron and passes through Southampton before curving to

1610-407: 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

1656-508: The resumption of work in June as a depression relief project. New equipment (namely a Caterpillar Excavator), as well as the expertise of Andy Newman, an engineer who was hired when he demonstrated his abilities with the machinery upon passing a construction site on his drive home. Newman, who helped design the machine that nobody else could operate, allowed work to proceed at a much faster rate than before. The machinery could dig quicker than 50 men, and

1702-533: The road is the most-commonly closed in the province. The highway begins at Exit 34 and progresses north towards Lake Huron. The mostly-straight section of the route lies within Lambton County and passes through the town of Forest. Near Kettle Point, the route abruptly curves north west and begins to parallel the shore of the lake, providing access to the village of Port Franks and The Pinery Provincial Park prior to entering Grand Bend. North of that village,

1748-452: The section of Highway 21 from Highway 401 south to Morpeth was transferred to Kent County . On January 1, 1998, the section between Highway 401 and Highway 402 was transferred to Kent and Lambton counties. The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 21, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario .  Department of Highways, Ontario The Ministry of Transportation ( MTO )

1794-454: The surveying grid and proceeds out of Amberley towards Kincardine . Between Amberley and Tiverton , Highway 21 travels straight-as-an-arrow along what was originally a rural concession road through the hamlets of Reid's Corners , Pine River , Huron Ridge and Slade . It bypasses inland of Kincardine, intersecting the western terminus of Highway 9 . Within Tiverton, which acts as

1840-652: The village of Black Creek. Instead of encountering water, Williams hit a shallow oil deposit. As a result of the ensuing oil boom, which would begin the petroleum industry in North America, Williams laid out the village and changed its name to Oil Springs. Two competing plank road companies were formed, the Black Creek Plank Road Company (of which Williams was a principal investor) and the Sarnia to Florence Plank Road Company, both of which aimed their roads through Oil Springs. Although both roads were constructed,

1886-535: The village of Point Clark at the south end and Boiler Beach at the north end, with a mixture of seasonal and permanent cottages along the shore in between. Lucknow and Ripley are the largest towns inland. Economically, the township depends heavily on agriculture, agricultural services and tourism. A number of residents work in Kincardine or Goderich , with the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station being

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1932-406: 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

1978-411: Was followed by the assumption of a section through Bosanquet Township on April 18, creating a 40.6 kilometres (25.2 mi) concurrency with Highway 7 from Reece's Corners to Thedford. From there, the route travelled through Thedford to Port Franks, where it merged into the present highway. A final 137.4-kilometre (85.4 mi) extension to Owen Sound was assumed on May 15, 1935, bringing

2024-521: Was founded as a Scottish settlement in the mid-19th century by 109 families forced to leave the Isle Of Lewis during the Highland Clearances . The first post office at Ripley opened in 1857, and many of its original settlers are buried in the local Lewis Gaelic cemetery. The Township of Huron-Kinloss was formed on January 1, 1999 through the amalgamation of the townships of Huron and Kinloss and

2070-590: 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

2116-403: Was the first King's Highway in Lambton County when it was assumed in 1927 between Highway 3 at Morpeth and Highway 7 at Reece's Corners. The original section of highway was rebuilt from a muddy trail to a plank road around 1860. When James Miller Williams , a Hamilton businessman, set out one day during a drought to dig a well, he chose a spot downhill from an existing oil seep in

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