Are Huntsville's population signs throwing you for a loop?

Photo: The population sign on the left is on Hwy. 11 northbound and controlled by the MTO while the one on the right is on Muskoka Rd. 3 on a District of Muskoka Road.

If population signs for Huntsville are throwing you for a loop, that’s because different entities manage them.

First, there are the population signs on Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO)-controlled highways. There are two population signs for Huntsville on Highway 11 southbound and northbound, showing Huntsville with a population of 20,000.

Doppler reached out to the MTO to find out how the signs get updated and received the following response: “Population figures displayed on signs along a provincial highway are based on census data published by Statistics Canada and are updated when requested by the municipality,”