Old Dawson Trail

The colonization roads were created during the 1840s and 1850s to open up or provide access to areas in Central and Eastern Ontario for settlement and agricultural development. The colonization roads were used by settlers to lead them toward areas for settlement, much like modern-day highways.

Thunder Bay connections

The Old Dawson Trail, the first all-Canadian route linking the Great Lakes with the Canadian prairies, began at Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) and ran northwest along the Shebandowan River up to Shebandowan Lake before continuing west toward Manitoba.

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