The route was designated as Highway500 in 1956. A major renumbering resulted in it becoming Highway649 in 1964. The route remained generally unchanged until it was decommissioned and transferred to Victoria County at the beginning of 1998; it then became Victoria County Road49. In 2001, Victoria County was restructured as the City of Kawartha Lakes, but the road retained the same number.
Route description
Former Highway649, now known as Kawartha Lakes Road49, runs in a predominantly north–south direction and covers a distance of 18.0km (11.2mi).[4][5]
The road crosses primarily rural geography between its southern terminus, City Road36 (Main Street), former Highway36, and northern terminus, City Road121, former Highway121. The village of Bobcaygeon at its southern terminus is an exception, and the village of Kinmount lies a short distance north of the route.[4][5] The road crosses the boundary between the Ordovicianlimestone to the south and the graniteCanadian Shield to the north, resulting in a hilly landscape with many large rock outcroppings.[4]
History
The road that is now Kawartha Lakes Road49 started in 1853, when an act of parliament set forth the building of colonization roads into what was then the frontier of Upper Canada. One of the first of these roads was named the Bobcaygeon Road, after the village at its southern end.[6]
In 1956, the southern portion of the Bobcaygeon Road through Minden was assumed by the Department of Highways (DHO), predecessor to the modern Ministry of Transportation, and numbered as Highway500. Highway121 was also opened along the Bobcaygeon Road that year, from south of Kinmount to Minden.[7][8]
On March1, 1964, a major renumbering took place in the Kawartha – Haliburton – Peterborough area, which resulted in Highway500 being renumbered as Highway649.[9]
The road held this designation until January1, 1998, when the entirety of Highway649 was decommissioned and transferred to Victoria County,[2]
which designated it as Victoria County49.[10]
In 2001, Victoria County was restructured as the city of Kawartha Lakes, and the road was renamed Kawartha Lakes Road49,[11]
which it remains known as today.[5]
Major intersections
The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 649.[4]The entire route is located in Kawartha Lakes.[5]
"Ontario Secondary Roads Now Designated 500, 600". Vol.112, no.33, 119. The Globe and Mail. February 4, 1956. p.4. Two new Ontario road numbers appear on the province's 1956 official road map which will be ready for distribution next week. The new numbers are the 500 and 600 series and designate hundreds of miles of secondary roads which are wholly maintained by the Highways Department. More than 100 secondary roads will have their own numbers and signs this year. All of these secondary roads were taken into the province's main highways system because they form important connecting links with the King's Highways
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