A fact from Ontario Highway 96 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 May 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CanadaWikipedia:WikiProject CanadaTemplate:WikiProject CanadaCanada-related articles
This article is part of the Canada Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads in Canadian provinces, territories and counties. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.Canada RoadsWikipedia:WikiProject Canada RoadsTemplate:WikiProject Canada RoadsCanada road transport articles
If 95 existed before 96, it would have needed to connect to the rest of the Ontario highway system somehow. Given that NY Route 12E isn't in Ontario and Simcoe Island is a dead end, the only other way off the island is the provincial ferry directly to Ontario Highway 2 in Kingston. That would require the inclusion of part of the town's main street (what would become 96) briefly as part of 95. It wouldn't require concurrency on 96's completion, though, as the 95 markers could have just as easily been removed from the village main street the day 96 was posted. Any concurrency was therefore short-lived. 66.102.83.61 (talk) 02:45, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Some sources (such as Cameron Bevers site) claim that the concurrency remained right until the highways were downloaded, but the logs I received from the MTO for the 97/98 downloading only mentions the section south of Highway 96. The mileage tables on older Ontario road maps (pre 1963) never list it. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲτ¢02:55, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
