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presents

The Highways of Hamilton /

Hamilton Regional Roads 22, 222, 622, & 65

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Highway	Duration	Start	Terminus	Length (km)
RR 22	19??-198?	Wilson St. (ON 2/53) and RR 52 (ON 52) west of Duff's Corners	Niagara Region line east of Binbrook	30
RR 422	198?-2005	Wilson St. (historic ON 2/53) and RR 52 (ON 52) west of Duff's Corners	Glancaster Rd. west of Mount Hope	11
RR 522		Glancaster Rd. west of Mount Hope	Niagara Region line east of Binbrook	19
RR 65	2005-	RR 52 and Brant County CR 22, Brant County line	Niagara Region line east of Binbrook	24

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Overview

Highway 65 is an east-west road skirting greater Hamilton's rural southern outskirts. It grazes the vicinity of Hamilton's airport in Mount Hope, and also serves the community of Binbrook. East of municipal boundaries, the road continues in the Niagara Region with the same number.

Both the configuration and number of this highway changed when Hamilton restructured its municipal roads in the 2000s. Part of its former course is now RR 52.

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History

At present, Highway 65 is the only one of Hamilton's numbered regional roads that was never an Ontario provincial highway. Its entire history is as a county or regional road.

It's unclear when exactly this road first bore a number, but local maps show it as Wentworth CR 22 by 1960. The routing itself is an order of magnitude older: Its east-west course follows concession lines of the early nineteenth century, with jogs caused by surveying inconsistencies between different townships. The original configuration also featured the road taking an L-shaped turn west of Carluke, continuing north to Highways 2, 52, and 53 west of Duff's Corners.

The highway has seen a number of changes:

• A: By 1960, a small jog at the boundary between Glanford and Binbrook townships was smoothed out.
• B: By 1962, a similar jog at the Ancaster-Glanford township line was straightened.
• C: By 1972, a jog at the Niagara Region line received similar adjustment.

• D: By 1984 Hamilton-Wentworth had adopted a code system for regional roads with a first digit keyed to the municipality. As such, RR 22 became RR 222 in Ancaster and RR 622 in Glanbrook.
• E: In 2005 this highway's northwest leg was reclassified as an extension of RR 52, resulting in a truncation and relocated endpoint.
• F: Also in 2005, the remainder of the road was renumbered RR 65 to match the number used in the Niagara Region.

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Gallery

All photos are by the author, 2022-2025:

Regional Road 65, as seen from its terminus on the Niagara Region line.

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