History
Highway 62 was first assumed by the Department of Highways (DHO) in 1937. On April 1 of that year, the DHO merged with the Department of Northern Development. Following the merger, many new highways through central and northern Ontario were designated. One of these was the Madoc–Pembroke Road, which became Highway 62 on August 11, 1937. Originally, the route followed the Hastings Colonization Road, which was quickly determined to be too rough to upgrade. A new alignment, apparently named the Faulkner Highway, was constructed to the east between Millhaven and L'Amable in the late 1930s. This bypass was opened to traffic on March 22, 1939. Subsequently, the bypassed portion of the highway was decommissioned on April 11.
At the time of its assumption, Highway 62 was split into two segments. The first section travelled from Madoc to Barry's Bay, the second from Pembroke to the community of Bonnechere, on the northwestern shore of Round Lake. It was originally planned to unite these segments by building a new highway mostly following the route of Paugh Lake Road. This section was never built, and so Highway 62 remained separated for a quarter century.
Portions of Highway 62 were transferred to local jurisdictions in 1997 and 1998. On April 1, 1997, the section from the Laurentian Valley – Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards boundary east to Highway 17 was transferred to Renfrew County. On January 1, 1998, the section northeast of Highway 127 in Maynooth was transferred to Hastings and Renfrew counties. The concurrency with Highway 60 was discontinued as a result of this transfer. Hastings County subsequently transferred its portion of the road to the townships of Monteagle and Bangor, Wicklow & McClure on April 15.
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