a road running at right angles to and joining two concession roads, or other main roads; side road.
- 1835  If there bant a road made up to every citizen's door . . . why he says the House of Assembly have voted all the money to pay great men's salaries, and there's nothing left for poor settlers, and cross roads.
- 1909  In all the townships there were "jogs" in the middle of the concessions, causing obstructions and deviations on the side roads, or "cross roads," as they are called in some localities.
- 1926  On the crossroad approaches a span drawing an ornate buckboard filled with belated tourists.