AARoads:Canada/Ontario

Ontario
A Canadian provincial department of the AARoads Wiki

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Welcome to the Ontario Roads WikiProject, a group of editors devoted to improving the coverage of the Ontario highway network and facets of Ontario's highway heritage. Please consider in our attempt to craft the greatest Ontario historical highway resource on the internet. Scope This project covers any and all roads (past and present) within the province of Ontario that are not city streets. This includes: Freeways, expressways, parkways Provincial highways; primary, secondary, and tertiary Former provincial highways Numbered county roads (except in Windsor, Hamilton and Ottawa) Historic routes with a significant story to warrant a separate article from their modern counterpart (i.e. The Middle Road) Before you get too excited however, there are guidelines. Most likely, the street you live on is not notable enough to warrant an article. Only certain roads will meet Wikipedia's notability requirements. All highways and all numbered roads are eligible, as are prominent named streets, such as Cootes Drive in Hamilton, Yonge Street and De Grassi Street in Toronto, etc. Arterial roads come down to a case by case basis. The general basis is whether or not you can provide several independent reliable sources for an article. Do not create an article without sourcing what you write (note that a map or an atlas is a reliable source for distances, locations, and termini/junctions, but does not constitute a valid source for the notability of a road.) Avoid, whenever possible, speculation; that is to say, do not deduce what the construction you passed on the highway was for. Search the MTO website for a contract in that area, and source it! If you can create an article on a road using reliable sources, with a History and a Route description section, then your article will generally pass. Goals Permanent Goals There are several purposes to this project: To create more articles about roads in Ontario. To organize those roads into categories by region. To standardize all roads within Ontario, maintaining consistency between pages. To source the unsourced articles we currently have. To provide a standardized infobox that quickly details the critical information of a given road. To provide aesthetically pleasing navigational aids (navboxes) to allow quick access to all articles. To create organized junction tables which conform to WP:RJL for all roads. To bring as many of the articles under the coverage of the project up to featured article standards as is possible! Good / Featured content Featured 400-series highways, Today's featured list for June 30, 2017 Don Valley Parkway, Today's featured article for August 31, 2011 Ontario Highway 401 Ontario Highway 416, Today's featured article for March 23, 2014 Ontario Highway 71 Ontario Highway 402, Today's featured article for February 23, 2017 Queen Elizabeth Way, Today's featured article for August 23, 2015 Ontario Highway 61 List of numbered roads in Kawartha Lakes, Today's featured list for March 21, 2014 Ontario Highway 403 A-Class Ontario Highway 55 Ontario Highway 404 Ontario Highway 405 Ontario Highway 420 Ontario Highway 427 Good Articles Ontario Highway 3 Ontario Highway 7A Ontario Highway 8 Ontario Highway 12 Ontario Highway 18 Ontario Highway 19 Ontario Highway 21 Ontario Highway 23 Ontario Highway 25 Ontario Highway 28 Ontario Highway 30 Ontario Highway 32 Ontario Highway 33 Ontario Highway 34 Ontario Highway 35 Ontario Highway 36 Ontario Highway 42 Ontario Highway 43 Ontario Highway 44 Ontario Highway 46 Ontario Highway 47 Ontario Highway 51 Ontario Highway 58 Ontario Highway 59 Ontario Highway 60 Ontario Highway 63 Ontario Highway 64 Ontario Highway 68 Ontario Highway 70 Ontario Highway 72 Ontario Highway 73 Ontario Highway 74 Ontario Highway 77 Ontario Highway 80 Ontario Highway 85 Ontario Highway 89 Ontario Highway 90 Ontario Highway 91 Ontario Highway 101 Ontario Highway 105 Ontario Highway 108 Ontario Highway 112 Ontario Highway 127 Ontario Highway 129 Ontario Highway 130 Ontario Highway 132 Ontario Highway 136 Ontario Highway 138 Ontario Highway 140 Ontario Highway 141 Ontario Highway 144 Ontario Highway 148 Ontario Highway 400 Ontario Highway 406 Ontario Highway 409 Ontario Highway 410 Ontario Highway 412 Ontario Highway 417 Ontario Highway 418 Donald Cousens Parkway Hanlon Expressway Niagara Parkway Sussex Drive Thousand Islands Parkway Media Highway 401 in Toronto, empty due to explosions at a nearby propane facility. Picture of the day for July 1, 2011 See also List of all subpages of this page User templates {{AARW user|CAN|ON}} Produces a userbox for editors' user pages. This editor is interested in Ontario roads and highways.