page_title: New Brunswick Route 108
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: New Brunswick Route 108 / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A small restaurant at the New Brunswick Route 108, picture #2
context_page_description: Route 108 is a highway in New Brunswick, Canada; running from Trans-Canada Highway exit 75 near Grand Falls to Route 8 exit 163 at Derby Junction; a distance of 202.9 kilometres.
context_section_description: The number 108 was first applied to a New Brunswick road in 1965 when it replaced the former Route 22. The original routing followed the current Route 108 from Grand Falls to Hazeldean, the current Route 395 to Plaster Rock, and a road along the north shore of the Tobique River (present-day Routes 109 and 390 to the Tobique First Nation north of Perth-Andover.
  In 1976, the Plaster Rock-Renous Highway, which was formerly part of Route 109, was renumbered as part of Route 108, and the section from Plaster Rock to the Tobique First Nation was renumbered Route 390. In 1988, Route 108 was extended northeast from Renous along the former Route 8 alignment. With the opening of the Plaster Rock bypass in 1997, the section from Hazeldean to Plaster Rock was rerouted along an upgraded former Route 393, with the former alignment of 108 becoming parts of Routes 395 and 109.
  The last change to Route 108 was with the opening of the new Trans-Canada Highway routing between Grand Falls and St-Leonard in 2003, when Route 108 was extended 3 kilometres to the west to meet up with the new interchange.
  The 108 is called the "Renous"  is not a secured route (no moose fencing) so it is very dangerous for Semi-trucks.
caption: Halfway Restaurant and Irving station. As there was no electricity approximately halfway between Renous and Plaster Rock, this facility was powered by a generator.
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