Quebec Route 143 Explained

Province:QC
Type:QC
Route:143
Maint:Transports Québec
Map:Route 143-QC.png
Length Km:165.8
Length Round:1
Length Ref:[1]
Direction B:North
Direction A:South
Terminus B: in Saint-François-du-Lac
Terminus A: in Derby Line, Vermont
Previous Type:QC
Previous Route:141
Next Type:QC
Next Route:147
Counties:Memphrémagog / Coaticook / Sherbrooke / Le Val-Saint-François / Drummond / Nicolet-Yamaska
Junction: in Stanstead
in
Stanstead-Est
in Hatley
in Lennoxville (Sherbrooke)
in Sherbrooke
in Bromptonville (Sherbrooke)
in Windsor
in Richmond
in Saint-Nicéphore (Drummondville)
in Drummondville
in Saint-Bonaventure

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

Major intersections

RCM or ETMunicipalityKm JunctionNotes
MemphrémagogStanstead0.05 SOUTH: to Derby Line, Vermont
0.2
0.3
247 NORTH: to Ogden
247 SOUTH: to
2.4
2.8
55 SOUTH: to in Derby Line, Vermont
55 NORTH: to Stanstead-East
Stanstead-East17.6141 NORTH: to Ayer's Cliff
141 SOUTH: to Barnston-Ouest
Hatley22.0 (Overlap 0.6 km)
CoaticookWaterville36.2Rue GosselinEAST: to Waterville
40.8 (Overlap 6.0 km)
44.1147 SOUTH: to Compton
SherbrookeLennoxville46.8 (Overlap 6.0 km)
Sherbrooke50.8216 WEST: to Magog
216 EAST: to Stoke
51.9112 WEST: to Rock Forest (Sherbrooke)
112 EAST: to Fleurimont (Sherbrooke)
Bromptonville58.3 (East end)222 WEST: to Saint-Denis-de-Brompton
61.8Rue LavalWEST: to
Le Val-Saint-FrançoisWindsor74.7249 SOUTH: to Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton
249 NORTH: to Val-Joli
Richmond90.2 (Overlap 1.9 km)
91.3 (Overlap 1.1 km)
92.1 (Overlap 1.9 km)
92.4 (Overlap 1.1 km)
DrummondSaint-Nicéphore120.6 (North end)139 SOUTH: to Wickham
Drummondville129.2
129.5
(Overlap 0.3 km)122 EAST: to Saint-Charles-de-Drummond (Drummondville)
122 WEST: to Saint-Germain-de-Grantham (Drummondville)
131.9
132.2
20 EAST: to Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover
20 WEST: to Saint-Eugène
Saint-Bonaventure148.8 (East end)224 WEST: to Saint-Guillaume
Nicolet-YamaskaSaint-François-du-Lac165.8

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page 69-70, Les Publications du Québec, 2005