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A typical waterfall along the Niagara Escarpment.
 Inglis Falls Conservation Area near Owen Sound.

A lookout point on Manitoulin Island. See Route 19.
Contents
Introduction: The Story of Ontario’s Backroads 
Section 1 — Southwestern Ontario
Route 1. The Hidden Treasures of the Erie Shore Road 
Route 2. The Tranquility of the Grand River Road    

Route 3. The Face of Farm Country    

Route 4. The Bruce Peninsula Road    

Route 5. Cuestas and Valleys 
Section 2 — Central Ontario
Route 6. Those Surprising Simcoe County Highlands 
Route 7. The Ridge Road West 
Route 8. The Ridge Road East    

Route 9. The Rice Lake Road    

Route 10. The Quinte Shore Road
Section 3 — Eastern Ontario
Route 11. The Napanee River Road
Route 12. Island Roads
Route 13. The Perth Road 
Route 14. The Rideau River Road
Route 15. The Ottawa River Road
Route 16. The Opeongo Pioneer Road
Route 17. The Remarkable Highlands of Hastings
Section 4 — Northern Ontario
Route 18. The Nipissing: A Road of Broken Dreams
Route 19. Manitoulin’s Haweater Trail
Route 20. Boomtown Backroads: The Cobalt Circle 
Route 21. The Trail of the Sleeping Giant
Route 22. The Silver Mountain Road

 Indian Head at Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park near Dorion, Ontario  —  see Route 21.

The Story of Ontario’s Backroads
The road was scarcely passable; there were no longer cheerful farms and clearings, but the dark pine forest and the rank swamp crossed by those terrific corduroy paths (my bones ache at the mere recollection) and deep holes and pools of rotted vegetable matter mixed with water, black bottomless sloughs of despond! The very horses paused on the brink of some of these mud gulfs and trembled ere they made the plunge downwards. I set my teeth, screwed myself to my seat and commended myself to heaven.
Today’s backroad adventures are a far cry from 1837, when traveller Anna Jameson wrote the above words. Indeed, thanks to those who flee the hustle of freeways and the tedium of suburban sprawl to seek the tranquility of an uncluttered countryside, backroad driving is North America’s most popular outdoor activity. 
    This book leads you from Ontario’s main highways onto its backroads. Before 1939, the province had no expressways. That was the year King George VI and Queen Elizabeth opened the Queen Elizabeth Way. In 1929, Ontario had less than 2,000 km of hard-surface highway. Before 1789, it had no roads at all. European settlement of Ontario began with the arrival of the Un ............

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