Route Description
Highway 101 connects Highway 17 at Wawa with the Quebec border near Rouyn-Noranda. It passes through Chapleau, Foleyet, Timmins, South Porcupine, Porcupine and Matheson along its 473.3 km (294.1 mi) course. With the exception of an undivided urban four-lane section through Timmins, from Government Road in Mountjoy to Porcupine, the entire highway is two lanes wide.
Just east of The Shoals Provincial Park, the highway crosses the Laurentian Divide, the boundary between the Great Lakes and Arctic Ocean watersheds. North of this point, all streams and rivers flow north into Hudson Bay, while south of it all streams and rivers flow south to the Great Lakes. A sign and a small picnic area mark the transition.
Within Timmins, the highway also has the street names Riverside Drive in the Mountjoy area, Algonquin Boulevard downtown, Schumacher Drive in Schumacher, Herald Avenue in South Porcupine and King Street in Porcupine. A new alignment is currently proposed but not yet under construction to bypass the urban core of Timmins.
At the Ontario-Quebec border, the roadway continues eastward as Quebec Route 388 into the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.
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