Quebec Route 143
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Route information | ||||
Maintained by Transports Québec | ||||
Length | 165.8 km[1] (103.0 mi) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
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Location | ||||
Country | Canada | |||
Province | Quebec | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Route 143 is a north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in the Centre-du-Québec and Estrie regions of Quebec. Until the mid-1970s when the province decided to renumber all highways other than autoroutes, it was known as Route/Highway 5. Its northern terminus is in Saint-François-du-Lac, at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is in Stanstead, at the border with Vermont where the road continues past the Derby Line–Stanstead Border Crossing as U.S. Route 5 through Derby Line to New Haven, Connecticut.
Since Autoroute 55 closely parallels Route 143 for most of its length, much commercial traffic chooses the former. However, it is a very busy route and takes much traffic from the border to the Sherbrooke local area. Route 143 closely follows the Saint-François River between Sherbrooke and Ulverton.
The road is often in notoriously poor condition, since its original cement was laid directly on a gravel road in the mid-1920s. It has been extensively resurfaced to the point the pavement is now more than three feet thick in places, but it heaves extensively at every spring thaw.
Municipalities along Route 143
[edit]- Stanstead
- Stanstead-Est
- Hatley
- Waterville
- Sherbrooke - (Lennoxville / Sherbrooke / Bromptonville)
- Val-Joli
- Windsor
- Cleveland
- Richmond
- Ulverton
- L'Avenir
- Drummondville - (Saint-Nicéphore / Drummondville / Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham)
- Saint-Bonaventure
- Saint-Pie-de-Guire
- Saint-François-du-Lac
Major intersections
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RCM or ET | Municipality | Km | Junction | Notes |
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Southern terminus of Route 143
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Memphrémagog | Stanstead | 0.0 | ![]() ![]() |
5 SOUTH: to Derby Line, Vermont |
0.2 0.3 |
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247 NORTH: to Ogden 247 SOUTH: to ![]() | ||
2.4 2.8 |
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55 SOUTH: to ![]() 55 NORTH: to Stanstead-East | ||
Stanstead-East | 17.6 | ![]() |
141 NORTH: to Ayer's Cliff 141 SOUTH: to Barnston-Ouest | |
Hatley | 22.0 | ![]() |
208 WEST: to Ayer's Cliff 208 EAST: to Compton | |
Coaticook | Waterville | 36.2 | Rue Gosselin | EAST: to Waterville |
40.8 | ![]() |
108 WEST: to Hatley Township | ||
44.1 | ![]() |
147 SOUTH: to Compton | ||
Sherbrooke | Lennoxville | 46.8 | ![]() |
108 EAST: to Eaton |
Sherbrooke | 50.8 | ![]() |
216 WEST: to Magog 216 EAST: to Stoke | |
51.9 | ![]() |
112 WEST: to Rock Forest (Sherbrooke) 112 EAST: to Fleurimont (Sherbrooke) | ||
Bromptonville | 58.3 | ![]() |
222 WEST: to Saint-Denis-de-Brompton | |
61.8 | Rue Laval | WEST: to ![]() | ||
Le Val-Saint-François | Windsor | 74.7 | ![]() |
249 SOUTH: to Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton 249 NORTH: to Val-Joli |
Richmond | 90.2 | ![]() |
116 EAST: to Cleveland | |
91.3 | ![]() |
243 NORTH: to Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey | ||
92.1 | ![]() |
116 WEST: to Durham-Sud | ||
92.4 | ![]() |
243 SOUTH: to Melbourne | ||
Drummond | Saint-Nicéphore | 120.6 | ![]() |
139 SOUTH: to Wickham |
Drummondville | 129.2 129.5 |
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122 EAST: to Saint-Charles-de-Drummond (Drummondville) 122 WEST: to Saint-Germain-de-Grantham (Drummondville) | |
131.9 132.2 |
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20 EAST: to Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover 20 WEST: to Saint-Eugène | ||
Saint-Bonaventure | 148.8 | ![]() |
224 WEST: to Saint-Guillaume | |
Nicolet-Yamaska | Saint-François-du-Lac | 165.8 | ![]() |
132 WEST: to Saint-Gérard-Majella 132 EAST: to Pierreville |
Northern terminus of Route 143
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See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page 69-70, Les Publications du Québec, 2005
External links
[edit]- Interactive Provincial Route Map (Transports Québec) (in French)
- Route 143 on Google Maps