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Highway 401 - 30-Mile Stretch of Highway 401 Opened
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1957
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- C1 Sh2 B1 F23 2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 105
- Storage Location
- C1 Sh2 B1 F23 2
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1957
- Series
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds - Highway 401 file
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 15 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- Five black and white photographs used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published June 1, 1957 with captions:
- "Snipping Ribbon - Harry Allen, M.L.A. for Middlesex South, cut the ribbon stretched across No. 401 Highway at the Wellington road cloverleaf 13 miles north of St. Thomas to open officially the 38-mile stretch of superhighway between No. 4 Highway at Tempo and a point on No. 2 Highway about four miles east of Woodstock. Left to right, above: F.S. Thomas, Elgin M.L.A.; Ald. Ed. Luft, St. Thomas; Hon. James Allan, Ontario Minister of Highways; Mr. Allen and James A. McBain, M.P. for Elgin". (2a)
- "Looking west from the No. 4 Highway Bridge the four-laner comes to an end but route through West Elgin surveyed on from here". (2b)
- "Work is still in progress on the No. 4 Highway overpass above". (2c)
- "Driving east along 401 Highway from Tempo, the Wellington road overpass is first of a series of bridges for principal north-south roads". (2d)
- "Between the village of Belmont and Dorchester another cloverleaf gives access to the superhighway". (2e)
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Highway No. 401 (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Newspapers
- Roads and Highways
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