 Now the Highway 2 concurrency was the only north-south stretch between Humboldt and Saskatoon and Meacham the only place name.On August 15, 1970 the Yellowhead was opened for the northern Trans-Canada route and the northwestern half of Provincial Highway 5 between Saskatoon and Lloydminster was designated as Saskatchewan Highway 16, the Yellowhead route.Travel along the Provincial Highway 5 before the 1940s would have been traveling on the "square" following the township road allowances, barbed wire fencing and rail lines.