Ontario Highway 5

File:Old alignment of Highway 5.png.]]

Highway{{nbsp}}5 serves as a short connector between Highway{{nbsp}}8 in the west and Highway{{nbsp}}6 in the east, and is essentially a continuation of Highway{{nbsp}}8. This configuration comes as a result of the truncation of both highways by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO). The removed sections were transferred to the jurisdiction of the City of Toronto, the City of Mississauga, Halton Region, the City of Hamilton, the County of Brant, and Oxford County on January{{nbsp}}1, 1998. Prior, Highway{{nbsp}}5 followed two segments of Dundas Street between Toronto and Paris.

The current route of Highway{{nbsp}}5 is almost entirely straight and rural. It passes immediately to the north of the Niagara Escarpment, a World Biosphere Reserve. South of the escarpment, at the western tip of Lake Ontario, is the Dundas district of Hamilton, which was once a separate town within the former Hamilton-Wentworth Region. It is {{convert|12.5|km}} between Peters Corners and Clappison's Corners.

Highway{{nbsp}}5 begins at a roundabout at the southern end of Highway{{nbsp}}8 and the northern end of former Highway 52 in Peters Corners. To the west, the road is now Hamilton Road{{nbsp}}5 (which the highway is now designated as beyond both ends of its remaining length through Hamilton). It proceeds westwards towards Paris. Proceeding east, it crosses a ravine, divides a large woodlot and passes through agricultural lands. It crosses Spencer Creek as it approaches Brock Road. Spencer Creek plunges over the nearby escarpment at Webster's Falls. Highway{{nbsp}}5 then passes through a rural residential area and returns to a farmland setting. It passes through the rural hamlet of Rock Chapel, and then curves to the left on its final approach to Highway{{nbsp}}6. East of Highway{{nbsp}}6, the road continues as the eastern section of Hamilton Road {{nbsp}}5, and becomes Dundas Street.

The MTO still maintains a {{convert|1.1|km|adj=on}} portion of Dundas Street at the Highway{{nbsp}}407 interchange in Burlington, a {{convert|400|m|yd|adj=on}} portion at the Highway{{nbsp}}403 interchange on the Oakville–Mississauga boundary, and a {{convert|1.9|km|adj=on}} portion at the Highway{{nbsp}}427 interchange in Toronto.

Dundas Street is one of the oldest roads in Ontario, created before Confederation when the province was known as Upper Canada (a reference to being upstream from Lower Canada on the St. Lawrence River). Under the orders of the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe, Captain Samuel Smith led 100 of the Queen's Rangers to open a road from the head of Lake Ontario (now known as Dundas) to La Tranche (later London) in early 1791. The first {{convert|32|km|0}} from the lakehead to the Grand River—where the Mohawk village that was home to Joseph Brant was located—were blazed by the rangers by October{{nbsp}}25, 1793. Another {{convert|75|km|0}} were cleared from the Grand River to the forks of the Thames River by the spring of 1794.{{sfn|Shragge|Bagnato|1984|pp=10, 11}}

In 1795, Asa Danforth, the namesake of Danforth Avenue, opened a road east to the new town of York (now Toronto). These early trails "involved nothing more than clearing a corridor through the bush, leaving the bigger stumps to rot, often detouring around the really big trees."{{sfn|Shragge|Bagnato|1984|p=11}}

The nature of travel in this period meant that daily movement was limited to several miles, and as a result hotels and taverns were established every few miles.{{sfn|Shragge|Bagnato|1984|p=11}} Several of these became the seeds of villages, such as Waterdown, Cooksville and Islington.{{cite web

| first = Sean | last = Marshall

| title = Lost Villages: Cooksville

| website = Spacing Toronto

| date = July 5, 2011

| url = http://spacing.ca/toronto/2011/07/05/lost-villages-cooksville/

| access-date = April 27, 2022}}

File:Sixteen Mile Creek bridge, 1922.png opened in 1921, replacing a winding route through the ravine valley that exists today as an access road and park trail.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1922

| date = May 28, 1923

| page = 8

| url = https://archive.org/details/n04ontariosession55ontauoft/page/n169/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 16, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}]]

When the Department of Public Highways of Ontario (DPHO) began taking over the responsibility of roads in 1917, it did not assign route numbers. Highways were instead initially referred to by the major cities they connected. What would become Provincial Highway{{nbsp}}5 during the summer of 1925 was initially known as the Hamilton–Jarvis Highway and the Dundas Highway.{{cite journal

| title = Provincial Highways Now Being Numbered

| publisher = Monetary Times Print

| journal = The Canadian Engineer

| date = August 25, 1925

| volume = 49

| issue = 8

| page = 246

| quote = Numbering of the various provincial highways in Ontario has been commenced by the Department of Public Highways. Resident engineers are now receiving metal numbers to be placed on poles along the provincial highways. These numbers will also be placed on poles throughout cities, towns and villages, and motorists should then have no trouble in finding their way in and out of urban municipalities. Road designations from "2" to "17" have already been allotted... Road No. 5 — Toronto to Jarvis, via Dundas Highway and Hamilton. Route No. 6 — Hamilton to Owen Sound.}}{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1921

| date = April 26, 1923

| section = Toronto–Hamilton Highway (via Dundas St.)

| page = 51

| url = https://archive.org/details/n04ontariosession54ontauoft/page/n219/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 13, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1921

| date = April 26, 1923

| section = Hamilton–Jarvis Highway

| page = 44

| url = https://archive.org/details/n04ontariosession54ontauoft/page/n213/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 13, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

Throughout the summer of 1920, several roads were taken over by the DPHO through Haldimand County, Wentworth County, Halton County, Peel County and York County. Within Haldimand County, the road between Jarvis and north of Caledonia was taken over (or assumed) by the province on June{{nbsp}}24, 1920. Another set of roads were assumed through Wentworth on July{{nbsp}}8, connecting with the portion in Haldimand County, through Hamilton to Clappison's Corners and east through Waterdown along Dundas Street. Within Peel, through what is now Mississauga, Dundas Street was assumed on July{{nbsp}}22. A portion within York County was assumed through Etobicoke from its western boundary as far east as the village of Islington on July{{nbsp}}29. A final segment of Dundas Street, within Halton from Waterdown to what is now Winston Churchill Boulevard, was assumed on July{{nbsp}}31.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1920

| date = April 26, 1921

| section = Provincial Highways Assumed in 1920

| pages = 42–45

| url = https://archive.org/details/n04ontariosession53ontauoft/page/n155/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 13, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

Portions of the route through Caledonia, Hagersville, Jarvis and Hamilton were not assumed by the DPHO.

Several more segments of road were assumed the following year, including two portions on the outskirts of Toronto. On March{{nbsp}}16, {{convert|3.9|km|mi}} of Dundas Street, between Islington Village (at the modern corners of Dundas, Bloor and Kipling) and the Toronto city limits at Jane Street were assumed by the DPHO. On September{{nbsp}}14, another {{convert|3.7|km|mi}} of road were assumed along Danforth Avenue, from Sibley Avenue to Kingston Road, via Pinegrove Avenue and Highview Avenue;{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1921

| date = April 26, 1923

| section = Provincial Highways Assumed in 1921

| page = 23

| url = https://archive.org/details/n04ontariosession54ontauoft/page/n191/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 13, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}{{cite map

| title = Toronto, Ontario. Map Sheet 30 M/11

| cartography = General Staff, Geographical Section

| publisher = Department of National Defence

| year = 1927

| scale = 1:63,360

| url = http://geo.scholarsportal.info/#r/details/_uri@=HTDP63360K030M11_1927TIFF&_add:true_nozoom:true

| access-date = April 16, 2022

| via = Scholars GeoPortal}}

Danforth Avenue did not continue east of Warden Avenue at this time, and so the DPHO constructed a new railway overpass and extended the route to Kingston Road, opening in 1925.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1923, 1924 and 1925

| date = April 26, 1926

| page = 68

| url = https://archive.org/details/n05ontariosession58ontauoft/page/68/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 18, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

Within Wentworth County, the construction of the Clappison Cut through the Niagara Escarpment was underway by 1921, with the aim of bypassing the winding old route that is known today as Old Guelph Road. The new route, which travelled straight along the boundary between East and West Flamboro, was assumed on January{{nbsp}}12, 1921. The province and the City of Hamilton also constructed several new bridges across Cootes Paradise to create a new northwest entrance into Hamilton. The new entrance, connecting the Toronto–Hamilton Highway (later Highway{{nbsp}}2) with the incomplete route up the escarpment to Clappison's Corners, was ceremonially opened by the Minister of Public Works and Highways, Frank Campbell Biggs, on August{{nbsp}}23, 1922.{{cite news

| first = Ewart | last = Munro

| title = New Highways Tap Hamilton on Two Sides: Hon. F. C. Biggs Officially Opens New Bridges and Niagara Link

| work = The Globe and Mail

| date = August 24, 1922

| page = 1

| id = {{ProQuest|1356404596}} {{Subscription required}}}}

The Clappison Cut was completed and paved in 1924.

File:Clappison cut 2.png|

File:Clappison cut 1.png|A set of rails were installed to remove excavated earth and rock.

File:Clappison cut 3.png|

File:Clappison cut 4.png|Completed work

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| image2 = New_St. George underpass, 1932.png

| width2 = 250

| caption2 = After reconstruction in 1932

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Highway{{nbsp}}5 and Highway{{nbsp}}6 travelled concurrently from Highway{{nbsp}}8 (Main Street) in downtown Hamilton to Clappison's Corners when route numbers were assigned in 1925. Highway{{nbsp}}5 was {{convert|127.4|km}} long at this time. This situation was short lived however, as Highway{{nbsp}}5 was redirected west from Clappison's Corners to Peters Corners to meet Highway{{nbsp}}8 on May{{nbsp}}25, 1927. Highway{{nbsp}}6, in turn, assumed the route of Highway{{nbsp}}5 south to Jarvis.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| date = March 31, 1928

| section = Appendix 6 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections of the Provincial Highway System for the Years 1926 and 1927

| pages = 59–60

| url = https://archive.org/details/n05ontariosession61ontauoft/page/n987/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 18, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

The route was extended further west in 1930, when the newly-renamed Department of Highways (DHO) assumed the road from Highway{{nbsp}}8 at Peters Corners to Highway{{nbsp}}24 west of St. George, as well as the Governor's Road between Highway{{nbsp}}24 and Highway{{nbsp}}2 at Paris. The {{convert|19.0|km|adj=on}} road between Highway{{nbsp}}8 and Highway{{nbsp}}24, through Beverley and South Dumfries was designated on June{{nbsp}}18, while the {{convert|6.8|km|adj=on}} section of the Governor's Road, along the boundary between South Dumfries and Brantford Township, was designated several months later on September{{nbsp}}24.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| date = October 24, 1932

| section = Appendix 5 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections of the King's Highway System for the Years 1930 and 1931

| page = 76

| url = https://archive.org/details/n06ontariosession64ontauoft/page/75/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 19, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

These two segments were connected by a concurrency with Highway{{nbsp}}24.{{cite map

| title = Ontario Road Map

| publisher = Department of Highways of Ontario

| edition = 1931–32

| url = http://ao.minisisinc.com/FS_IMAGES/I0050483.jpg

| access-date = April 19, 2022

| via = Archives of Ontario}}

This brought the length of the route to {{convert|114.3|km}}, including the approximately {{convert|16.1|km}} of Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue between Jane Street and Sibley Avenue, within the Toronto city limits.{{Google maps

| title = Highway 5 route in 1931

| url = https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/43.1917255,-80.3615183/43.7024074,-79.2536313/@43.3885963,-80.1246907,87885m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m54!4m53!1m50!3m4!1m2!1d-80.102918!2d43.2745534!3s0x882c7df0c45e06b1:0x210a99ab4b156602!3m4!1m2!1d-79.9158716!2d43.313732!3s0x882c9d2c5af419ef:0x5e5c0544693df25b!3m4!1m2!1d-79.8185101!2d43.3968138!3s0x882b615d3b512107:0x4390309af2f63fbc!3m4!1m2!1d-79.7746465!2d43.4372657!3s0x882b671ab8c7ed11:0x23fbc3421a7e48cb!3m4!1m2!1d-79.7190678!2d43.488275!3s0x882b42b7c1094c8f:0x268b523cfadf26d1!3m4!1m2!1d-79.6266651!2d43.5713737!3s0x882b46ea2190b311:0x18d94e2049944d1a!3m4!1m2!1d-79.5426302!2d43.6335521!3s0x882b37eb7762527d:0x6f13fa3de64f2041!3m4!1m2!1d-79.5308799!2d43.6429375!3s0x882b37bb41bd27cb:0x6f710fe3547fecac!3m4!1m2!1d-79.4425031!2d43.6574147!3s0x882b3445d857492b:0xdca29f9704c850bb!3m4!1m2!1d-79.348917!2d43.6781405!3s0x89d4cc9cf54964db:0x4ca4e03ac6d06b0e!1m0!3e0

| access-date = April 19, 2022}}

File:Highway 5 near Clappison's Corners, 1955.png

When the Hamilton–Jarvis Highway and Dundas Street were assumed by the province, they were paved from Islington village west to Summerville (near Dixie Road), but were otherwise gravel throughout. The route was paved between Mount Hope and Hamilton, between Sixteen Mile Creek and Summerville, as well as along Bloor Street from Islington village to Jane Street in 1921. New bridges were also completed over Sixteen Mile Creek and Mimico Creek.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1921

| date = April 26, 1923

| section = Bridges Completed on Provincial Highways During 1921

| page = 27

| url = https://archive.org/details/n04ontariosession54ontauoft/page/n195/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 20, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

In 1923, the remainder of the route between Sixteen Mile Creek and Hamilton, including the new Clappison Cut, was paved. This was followed the next year by the construction of a water-bound macadam surface between Jarvis and Caledonia, completing the hard-surfaced road between Jarvis and Hamilton.

That year also saw the completion of a new high-level bridge along Bloor Street over the Humber River, bypassing the old route along Old Mill Road and Old Mill Drive. The bridge was opened ceremoniously by then Minister of Highways—and later premier—George Stewart Henry on November{{nbsp}}21, 1924.{{cite news

| title = Beautiful Bridge is Connecting Link on Great Highway

| work = The Globe and Mail

| date = November 22, 1924

| page = 15

| id = {{ProQuest|1354611886}} {{Subscription required}}}}

When the portion of Highway{{nbsp}}5 west of Clappison's Corners was assumed in 1927, it was already paved as far west as the Brock Road, approximately {{convert|7|km}}.[http://ao.minisisinc.com/FS_IMAGES/I0050477.jpg Photo] minisisinc.com However, the {{abbr|DPHO|Department of Public Highways, Ontario}} paved the entire length between Peters Corners and Clappison's Corners in 1928.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Public Highways

| edition = 1928 and 1929

| date = March 3, 1931

| section = Provincial Highway Construction, 1928

| page = 23

| url = https://archive.org/details/n05ontariosession63ontauoft/page/n1135/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 20, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

When the province assumed the remainder of the route to Paris, it began paving the highway west from Peters Corners. Paving was completed for {{convert|10|km}} to Troy in 1930 and 1931;{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| edition = 1930 and 1931

| date = October 24, 1932

| section = Pavement Operations during 1930, Pavement Construction on the Highway System in 1931

| pages = 31–33

| url = https://archive.org/details/n06ontariosession64ontauoft/page/n699/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 20, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

another 10{{nbsp}}km were completed from Troy to Highway{{nbsp}}24 in 1932, including a railway underpass at St. George.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| edition = 1932

| date = March 5, 1934

| section = Pavement Construction in 1932

| page = 22

| url = https://archive.org/details/n06ontariosession65ontauoft/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 20, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

The final {{convert|6.8|km}} east from Paris to Highway{{nbsp}}24 were paved in 1933.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| edition = 1933 and 1934

| date = March 18, 1935

| section = 1933 Construction Operations

| page = 23

| url = https://archive.org/details/n06ontariosession67ontauoft/page/n801/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 20, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

File:Kingston Road at Danforth, 1938.png

Within Scarborough, the DHO began a project to widen Kingston Road to a dual highway in the mid 1930s, which would ultimately result in the construction of the first segment of Highway 401. This construction began at the intersection of Highway{{nbsp}}2 and Highway{{nbsp}}5 and proceeded northwest. At the intersection of the two highways, the DHO constructed a new grade-separation around the Scarborough Cenotaph beginning in 1936.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| edition = 1936

| date = February 23, 1938

| section = King's Highway Operations: Residency No. 6—Toronto

| page = 20

| url = https://archive.org/details/n05ontariosession70ontauoft/page/n727/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 21, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

the overpass, carrying eastbound traffic from Danforth Avenue onto eastbound Kingston Road, was completed in 1938, though landscaping continued into 1939.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| edition = 1938

| date = October 26, 1939

| section = King's Highway Operations: Residency No. 6—Toronto

| page = 26

| url = https://archive.org/details/n05ontariosession72ontauoft/page/n619/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 21, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| edition = 1939

| date = December 31, 1940

| section = King's Highway Operations: Summary of Construction Projects

| page = 18

| url = https://archive.org/details/n04ontariosession73ontauoft/page/n1065/mode/2up?view=theater

| access-date = April 21, 2022

| via = Internet Archive}}

This junction remains in place today, almost unchanged since then.{{Google maps

| title = Junction of Danforth Avenue and Kingston Road at the Scarborough Cenotaph

| url = https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.7017269,-79.2546707,447m/data=!3m1!1e3

| access-date = April 21, 2022}}

As suburbanization of Toronto encroached on Toronto Township—which would become the town of Mississauga in 1968—the DHO began to widen Highway{{nbsp}}5 to four lanes across Peel and Halton in the 1960s, beginning with the section between Highway{{nbsp}}10 at Cooksville and Mississauga Road in 1961.{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100286855/will-widen-highway-5-in-cooksville/ | title=Will Widen Highway 5 in Cooksville District | newspaper=The Expositor | date=19 July 1960 | page=1 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100286822/homeowners-dont-want-four-lanes/ | title=Homeowners Don't Want Four Lanes | newspaper=The Kingston Whig-Standard | date=17 May 1961 | page=12 }}

In the late 1970s, construction began on Highway{{nbsp}}403 through Mississauga. As part of this new freeway, an interchange with Highway{{nbsp}}5 was built just east of Ninth Line, on the Oakville–Mississauga boundary. The interchange opened along with the segment of Highway{{nbsp}}403 south to the Queen Elizabeth Way at Ford Drive in mid-1981; the freeway was extended north to Erin Mills Parkway on November{{nbsp}}17th of that year.{{cite news

| title = Doubts Raised About Route of New 403

| first = Frank

| last = Calleja

| work = Toronto Star

| date = November 8, 1979

| page = A19

| id = {{ProQuest|1373285177}} {{Subscription required}}}}{{cite news

| title = Highway 403 Section Open to Traffic Today

| first = Brian

| last = Dexter

| work = Toronto Star

| date = November 17, 1981

| page = A18

| id = {{ProQuest|1434811343}} {{Subscription required}}

| quote = It runs west from Erin Mills Parkway north of Burnhamthorpe Road, to Highway 5 in Oakville, where a spur to the Queen Elizabeth Way at Ford Drive has been used by traffic for several months.}}

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Following the creation of Metropolitan Toronto on April 15, 1953,{{cite journal

| first = Albert | last = Rose

| title = A Decade of Metropolitan Government in Toronto

| journal = Buffalo Law Review

| volume = 13 | number = 3

| date = April 1, 1964

| page = 539

| url = https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2719&context=buffalolawreview

| access-date = October 21, 2021}}

the new municipality was given responsibility for most of the provincial highways that passed within its boundaries that were not already connecting links following streets urbanized prior to this time. The sections of Highway{{nbsp}}5 through Etobicoke and Scarborough were accordingly redesignated as connecting links and their maintenance given over to the new Metro government on January{{nbsp}}15, 1954.{{cite report

| title = Annual Report

| publisher = Department of Highways

| edition = 1954

| date = March 31, 1954

| section = Appendix No. 3 – Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections of the King's Highway System for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 1954

| pages = 156–157

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gf0iAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Jan.+15,+1954%22+%2211A%22

| access-date = October 20, 2021}}

A {{convert|12.1|km|adj=on}} portion of Highway{{nbsp}}5 from Etobicoke Creek west to Mississauga Road was made a connecting link though the recently established Town of Mississauga on April{{nbsp}}1, 1970.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_sVCKrdxYHUC&q=%22Apr+1%2F70%22+toronto | title=Annual Report | year=1968 }}

Another {{convert|2.8|km}}, between Winston Churchill Boulevard and Mississauga Road in Mississauga, was designated a connecting link on November{{nbsp}}22, 1978.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

on November 27, 1991, a {{convert|1.2|km}} segment of Dundas Street, from the interchange with Highway{{nbsp}}403 east to Winston Churchill Boulevard, was made a connecting link through the municipal boundary area between Mississauga and Oakville, and maintenance was transferred to these municipalities.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

As the connecting links were technically still part of Highway{{nbsp}}5, shields continued to be posted along it and marked on the Official Ontario Road Map through Mississauga and Metropolitan Toronto up until 1998 when the highway designation was dropped altogether {{cite map

| title = Ontario Road Map

| cartography = Surveys and Mapping Section, Surveys and Design Office

| publisher = Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

| year = 1997

| inset = Metropolitan Toronto

| url = http://ao.minisisinc.com/FS_IMAGES/I0050601.jpg

| access-date = April 21, 2022

| via = Archives of Ontario}}

File:Highway 427 at Dundas Street.jpg, the latter inaugurated after Highway{{nbsp}}5 was downloaded to municipal authorities. Despite no longer being a provincial route, Highway{{nbsp}}5 remained signed through Metro Toronto for several decades.]]

As part of a series of budget cuts initiated by premier Mike Harris under his Common Sense Revolution platform in 1995, numerous highways deemed to no longer be of significance to the provincial network were downloaded to a lower level of government. As it generally served as a local arterial road through the growing suburbs of Oakville and Burlington, Highway{{nbsp}}5 was downloaded from Highway{{nbsp}}6 at Clappison's Corners to Highway{{nbsp}}403, and transferred to the Regional Municipalities of Hamilton–Wentworth and Halton on January{{nbsp}}1, 1998. On the same day, the portions of the route west of Peters Corners were transferred to Hamilton–Wentworth and the County of Brant. This removed {{convert|53.3|km}} from the length of the highway, leaving only the portion between Peters Corners and Clappison's Corners in the provincial highway network.{{cite report

| title = Highway Transfers List – "Who Does What"

| publisher = Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

| date = June 20, 2001

| pages = 2, 4}}

Nonetheless the MTO continues to maintain short segments of Dundas Street (former Highway 5) at interchanges with provincial freeways, including a {{convert|400|m|yd|adj=on}} portion at Highway{{nbsp}}403, as well as a {{convert|1.9|km|adj=on}} portion at Highway{{nbsp}}427.

In July 2001, a new interchange with Highway 407 ETR was opened, connecting the extension of the toll highway with former Highway{{nbsp}}5 in Burlington.{{cite report

|title = Settlement of Claim of Richard Prendiville

|publisher = Ontario Superior Court of Justice

|date = December 12, 2001

|page = 7

|url = http://www.kmlaw.ca/site_documents/011240_SOC_18dec01.pdf

|access-date = June 30, 2014

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140727041251/http://www.kmlaw.ca/site_documents/011240_SOC_18dec01.pdf

|archive-date = July 27, 2014

|df = mdy-all}}

An operational and safety review of the three intersections at Peters Corners near Hamilton was undertaken in February 2001. Studies, including an environmental assessment were conducted between 2004 and 2009, and settled upon a roundabout as the ideal replacement, with traffic signals at the two intersections with Westover Road (former Highway 52).{{cite periodical

| title = Gonna Go 'Round in Circles

| publisher = Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

| magazine = Road Talk

| volume = 19 | issue = 2

| url = http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/publications/road-talk/road-talk-19-fall.shtml

| access-date = March 6, 2022}}

Construction began in the spring of 2012, and the C$6.3 million roundabout was opened on September{{nbsp}}25, 2012.{{cite news

| first = Daniel | last = Nolan

| title = Some doubt about new roundabout

| work = Hamilton Spectator

| date = September 11, 2012

| url = https://www.hamiltonnews.com/news-story/2247254-some-doubt-about-new-roundabout/

| access-date = March 6, 2022}}

{{ONinttop|maint=MTO|length_ref={{cite web

| title = Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts

| author = Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

| publisher = Government of Ontario

| year = 2016

| pages = 102–106

| url = https://www.library.mto.gov.on.ca/SydneyPLUS/TechPubs/Theme.aspx?r=702797&f=files%2fProvincial+Highways+traffic+Volumes+1988-2016.pdf&m=resource

| access-date = April 23, 2022

}}}}

{{ONint|former

| division = Brant

| dspan = 4

| location = Paris

| km = -29.2

| road = {{jcon|bch|5|dir=begins}}
{{jcon|bch|2|Dundas Street / Paris Road}}
{{jcon|Brant|55|dir=north|Green Lane}}

| notes = Formerly Highway 5 western terminus; formerly {{jcon|Hwy|2|nosh=y}}; former Highway 5 follows {{jcon|bch|5|ot=y|fulltext=y}} and first section of Dundas Street

}}

{{ONint|former

| location = Osborne Corners

| km = -22.4

| road = {{jcon|Hwy|24|dir=south|city=Brantford}}

---

{{jcon|bch|99|dir=east|Governors Road}}

| notes = Former western end of Highway 24 concurrency; formerly {{jcon|Hwy|99|dir=east|nosh=y}}; end of first section of Dundas Street

}}

{{ONint|former

| location =  

| km = -18.6

| road = {{jcon|Hwy|24|dir=north|city=Cambridge}}

---

{{jcon|Brant|35|dir=west|Blue Lake Road}}

| notes = Former eastern end of Highway 24 concurrency

}}

{{ONint|former

| location = St. George

| km = -15.6

| road = {{jcon|Brant|13|Main Street}}

| notes =

}}

{{ONint|former

| municipality_special = Brant–Hamilton boundary

| km = -12.6

| road = {{jcon|bch|5|dir=ends|fulltext=y}}
{{jcon|Hamilton|5|dir=begins|fulltext=y}}

| notes =

}}

{{ONint

| municipality = Hamilton

| lspan = 6

| type = trans

| km = 0.0

| road = {{jcon|Hwy|5|dir=begins|nolink=y|shield=y}}
{{jcon|Hamilton|5|dir=breaks}}

---

{{jcon|Hwy|8|dir=west|city=Cambridge}}
{{jcon|Hamilton|52|dir=south|town=Copetown}}

| notes = Peters Corners; current Highway 5 western terminus; formerly {{jcon|Hwy|52|dir=south|nosh=y}}; western end of Highway 8 concurrency

}}

{{ONint

| type = concur

| km = 0.3

| road = {{jcon|Hwy|8|dir=ends|fulltext=y}}
{{jcon|Hamilton|8|dir=south|town=Dundas}}

| notes = Formerly {{jcon|Hwy|8|dir=east|ot=y}}; eastern end of Highway 8 concurrency

}}

{{ONint

| km = 5.7

| road = Brock Road

| notes = Formerly {{Jcon|hrr|504|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint

| km = 9.8

| road = Sydenham Road

| notes = Formerly {{Jcon|hrr|505|dir=south|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint

| km = 10.0

| road = Millgrove Side Road

| notes = Formerly {{Jcon|hrr|505|dir=north|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint

| type = trans

| km = 12.8

| road = {{jcon|Hwy|6|city=Guelph|city2=Toronto}}, Brantford

---

{{jcon|Hwy|5|dir=ends|nolink=y|shield=y}}
{{jcon|Hamilton|5|dir=resumes|Dundas Street}}

| notes = Clappison's Corners; current Highway 5 eastern terminus; beginning of second section of Dundas Street

}}

{{ONint|former

| division_special = Hamilton–Halton boundary

| location_special = Hamilton–Burlington boundary

| km = 18.8

| road = Kerns Road

---

{{jcon|Hamilton|5|dir=ends|fulltext=y}}
{{jcon|Halton|5|dir=begins|fulltext=y}}

| notes =

}}

{{ONint|former

| division = Halton

| dspan = 2

| location = Burlington

| km = 23.3

| road = {{jcon|Toll|407 ETR}}

| notes = Highway 407 exit 5

}}

{{ONint|former

| location = Oakville

| km = 30.5

| road = {{jcon|Halton|25|Bronte Road}}

| notes = Formerly {{jcon|Hwy|25|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint|former

| division_special = Halton–Peel boundary

| dspan = 2

| location_special = Oakville–Mississauga boundary

| lspan = 2

| km = 41.5

| road = {{jcon|Hwy|403}}

| notes = Highway 403 exit 106

}}

{{ONint|former

| km = 43.0

| road = {{jcon|Halton|5|dir=ends|fulltext=y}}

---

{{jcon|Peel|19|Winston Churchill Boulevard|}}

| notes = Unsigned concurrency with {{jcon|Halton|19|fulltext=y|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint|former

| division = Peel

| location = Mississauga

| km = 51.4

| road = Hurontario Street

| notes = Formerly {{jcon|Hwy|10|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint|former

| municipality = Toronto

| lspan = 7

| km = 58.7

| road = {{jcon|Hwy|427}}

| notes =

}}

{{ONint|former

| km = 61.4

| road = Kipling Avenue / Bloor Street

| notes = Former Highway 5 follows Bloor Street while Dundas Street continues northeast

}}

{{ONint|former

| km = 73.1

| road = Avenue Road

| notes = Formerly {{jcon|Hwy|11A|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint|former

| km = 73.7

| road = Yonge Street

| notes = Formerly {{jcon|Hwy|11|nosh=y}}

}}

{{ONint|former

| km = 75.4

| km2 = 76.1

| uspan = 2

| road = {{Jcon|Toronto|DVP}}

| notes = Don Valley Parkway exit 3; Bloor Street becomes Danforth Avenue

}}

{{ONint|former

| km = none

| bridge = Prince Edward Viaduct

}}

{{ONint|former

| km = 84.9

| road = Kingston Road

| notes = Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; formerly {{jcon|Hwy|2|nosh=y}}; former Highway 5 eastern terminus

}}

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;Sources

{{Reflist}}

;Bibliography

• {{cite book

| title = From Footpaths to Freeways

| last1 = Shragge

| first1 = John

| last2 = Bagnato

| first2 = Sharon

| publisher = Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Historical Committee

| year = 1984

| isbn = 0-7743-9388-2}}

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