Western Terminus:  At the Manitoba - Ontario Border west of Kenora.  Highway 17 connects to Winnipeg and beyond via Manitoba Highway 1  (Trans-Canada Highway 1).

Eastern Terminus:  Currently (Fall 2004): At highway 417 and Highway 15 (Ottawa Road 29) just east of Arnprior.  Before 1998: Highway 17 continued easterly (via an unsigned concurrent routing with Highway 417 in Ottawa) to east of Hawkesbury ending at exit 9 on the 417.

Length:  Pre 1998:  2,129.7 km.  Currently:  1,965.3 km.

Multiplexes:  180.1 km with Highway 11 near Thunder Bay, 15.1 km with Highway 64 from Vernor to Sturgeon Falls, and  4.1 km with Highway 11 (again) on the North Bay Bypass.

Freeway: Highway 17 is a freeway that bypasses Sudbury Road 55 (old Hwy 17) southwest of Sudbury.  Highway 17 is a controlled access bypass of Thunder Bay, Sudbury, North Bay, and Pembroke, but these stretches are not fully-freewayalized.  Before downloading Highway 17 was also a freeway from Highway 417 in Ottawa to Trim Road in Orleans (this road is now called Ottawa Road 174).

Trans-Canada Highway: Entire Length, as the Lake Superior Route and the Ottawa Valley Route.

AADT (2002):  Highest: 25,700 from Highway 17B to Seymour Street on the North Bay Bypass;

                             Lowest: 1,750 from Secondary Highway 614 to Secondary Highway 631 (White River).