Furlong in the Hoddle Grid of Melbourne are also one furlong in length. Much of Ontario, Canada, was originally surveyed on a ten-furlong grid, with major roads being laid out along the grid lines. Now that distances are shown on road signs in kilometres, these major roads are almost exactly two kilometres apart. The exits on highways running through Toronto, for example, are generally at intervals of two kilometres. The furlong is also a base unit of the humorous FFF system of units. The exact conversion of the furlong to SI units varies slightly among English-speaking countries. In Canada and the
Grant Furlong from 1922 to 1926 and again in 1941 and 1942. He served as postmaster of Donora from 1933 to 1938. Furlong was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944. He resumed the practice of medicine, and was elected sheriff of Washington County, Pennsylvania, serving from 1945 to 1961. Retrieved on 2009-02-22 Grant Furlong Robert Grant Furlong (January 4, 1886 – March 19, 1973) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Furlong was born in Roscoe, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the State Teachers College in California,