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List of numbered roads in Brant County

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6631480 ↗
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This is a list of numbered roads in the County of Brant, in the Canadian province of Ontario. There are two classes of numbered roads in Brant County: county highways, former King's Highways downloaded to county responsibility in the late 1990s; and county roads, analogous to the county roads of other counties.

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