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Steam Shovel at Work on Highway 35 North, Rosedale

Black-and-white image of steam shovel digging at roadside with trees and hydro poles in background

Carolyn Oliver Norris Harrison Collection
Date: 1940s

Originally called the Cameron Road, the route running between Rosedale and Minden, Ontario, became known as Highway 35 on April 1, 1937. By the 1940s the section between Rosedale and Norland had been paved. Steam shovels such as this one aided highway construction crews in work that was once undertaken solely by horses and manual labour.