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
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
RCM or ETMunicipalityKm JunctionNotesMemphrémagogStanstead0.05 SOUTH: to Derby Line, Vermont0.2 0.3247 NORTH: to Ogden 247 SOUTH: to 2.4 2.855 SOUTH: to in Derby Line, Vermont 55 NORTH: to Stanstead-EastStanstead-East17.6141 NORTH: to Ayer's Cliff 141 SOUTH: to Barnston-OuestHatley22.0 (Overlap 0.6 km)208 WEST: to Ayer's Cliff 208 EAST: to Compton CoaticookWaterville36.2Rue GosselinEAST: to Waterville40.8 (Overlap 6.0 km)108 WEST: to Hatley Township 44.1 147 SOUTH: to ComptonSherbrookeLennoxville46.8 (Overlap 6.0 km)108 EAST: to Eaton Sherbrooke50.8216 WEST: to Magog 216 EAST: to Stoke51.9 112 WEST: to Rock Forest (Sherbrooke) 112 EAST: to Fleurimont (Sherbrooke)Bromptonville58.3 (East end)222 WEST: to Saint-Denis-de-Brompton61.8Rue LavalWEST: to Le Val-Saint-FrançoisWindsor74.7249 SOUTH: to Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton 249 NORTH: to Val-JoliRichmond90.2 (Overlap 1.9 km)116 EAST: to Cleveland 91.3 (Overlap 1.1 km)243 NORTH: to Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey 92.1 (Overlap 1.9 km)116 WEST: to Durham-Sud 92.4 (Overlap 1.1 km)243 SOUTH: to Melbourne DrummondSaint-Nicéphore120.6 (North end)139 SOUTH: to WickhamDrummondville129.2 129.5 (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-EugèneSaint-Bonaventure148.8 (East end)224 WEST: to Saint-GuillaumeNicolet-YamaskaSaint-François-du-Lac165.8 132 WEST: to Saint-Gérard-Majella 132 EAST: to Pierreville
See also
List of Quebec provincial highways
References
External links Interactive Provincial Route Map (Transports Québec) Route 143 on Google Maps