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Quebec Route 298

highway in Quebec

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3443768 ↗
Source-derived summary

Route 298 is 40 km two-lane north/south highway in Quebec, Canada, which starts in Sainte-Luce at the junction of Route 132 and ends in Saint-Charles-Garnier. Provincial highways with even numbers usually follow the Saint Lawrence River in a somewhat east/west direction, but Route 298 is a north/south highway in almost all of its length.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Quebec Route 298” as highway in Quebec. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Quebec, Route and highway.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Quebec, Route and highway providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Quebec Route 298” 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.