King's Highway 99, also known as Highway 99 or The Governor's Road, was a provincially maintained highway in the

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that connected Highway 24 north of

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with Highway 8 in Dundas, lying approximately midway between Highway 2 to the south and Highway 5. The Governor's Road, an important historical highway that is a part of Dundas Street, continues west of Highway 24 to

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and onwards to

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. Highway 99 was first designated as Highway 5B in 1938, but was renumbered by 1940. The route was paved in 1953, but otherwise remained unchanged until the 1980s, when it was truncated at the

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– Hamilton-Wentworth boundary. The remainder of the route was decommissioned in 1997.

Route description

Highway 99 was a generally straight highway that served as an alternative route to Highway 2 and Highway 5. It began at an intersection with Highway 24 and Highway 5 north of Brantford at Osborne Corners. From that intersection, Highway 5 travelled west and Highway 24 south, while both travelled north concurrently. Highway 99 travelled east, crossing the boundary between

and Hamilton (then Wentworth County) east of Osborne Corners. Within Hamilton, the highway crossed a Canadian National Railway on an overpass before bisecting the community of Lynden and Copetown, intersecting Highway 52 in the latter. East of Copetown, the route descended the Niagara Escarpment, finally diverging from its otherwise straight path. It passed through the

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before entering the town of Dundas, where it turned north and ended at an intersection with Highway 8 (

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History

Highway 99 was first established by the Department of Highways in 1938 as an alternative route to the busy Dundas Road (Highway 5) and Transprovincial Highway (Highway 2). On April 13, 1938, the Governors Road was assumed into the provincial highway network as Highway 5B. This designation was short-lived, as the route was renumbered Highway 99 by 1940. When the province took over responsibility for the Governors Road, it was already paved between Copetown and Dundas; the remainder was a

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until it was paved in 1953. The route of the highway remained unchanged until the early 1980s. In 1982 or 1983, the section of the route laying within Hamilton-Wentworth was transferred to that region, leaving a stub. On April 1, 1997, the remainder of the highway was transferred to Brant County,

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the route number in the process.

Major intersections

References

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