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New Brunswick Route 190

highway in New Brunswick

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7005894 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 190 is a 6 km (3.7 mi)-long east–west secondary highway in western New Brunswick, Canada.

The route's western terminus is at the Canada–United States border between Carlingford, New Brunswick and Fort Fairfield, Maine. Route 190 travels east to the town of Southern Victoria where it ends at Route 130. In Southern Victoria, the route is called Fort Road.

History

The road from Andover to the border near Fort Fairfield, Maine was originally designated as Route 7. It was renumbered as Route 19 in 1965 and Route 190 in 1984.

A high-speed connector road between the Trans-Canada Highway and the bridge in Southern Victoria was constructed as part of upgrades to the Trans Canada Highway in 2003. It became part of Route 109, which was extended from across the river, while Route 190 was shortened.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “New Brunswick Route 190” is highway in New Brunswick. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brunswick, Route and highway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1984, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. For this dossier, Brunswick, Route and highway is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “highway in New Brunswick” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7005894. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1984 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Brunswick Route 190” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.