Quebec Route 143

Route 143
Route 143
Route information
	Maintained by Transports Québec
Length	165.8 km (103.0 mi)
Major junctions
South end	US 5 in Derby Line, Vermont
	R-247 in Stanstead; A-55 / R-141 in Stanstead-Est; R-108 / R-147 in Lennoxville; A-10 / R-112 / R-216 in Sherbrooke; R-222 in Brompton; R-249 in Windsor; R-116 / R-243 in Richmond; R-139 in Saint-Nicéphore; A-20 (TCH) / A-55 / R-122 in Drummondville; R-224 in Saint-Bonaventure;
North end	R-132 in Saint-François-du-Lac
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Highway system
	Quebec provincial highways; Autoroutes; List; Former;

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 ET	Municipality	Km	Junction	Notes
Southern terminus of Route 143
Memphrémagog	Stanstead	0.0	US 5 south	5 SOUTH: to Derby Line, Vermont
		0.2 0.3	R-247	247 NORTH: to Ogden 247 SOUTH: to A-55
		2.4 2.8	A-55	55 SOUTH: to I-91 in Derby Line, Vermont 55 NORTH: to Stanstead-East
	Stanstead-East	17.6	R-141	141 NORTH: to Ayer's Cliff 141 SOUTH: to Barnston-Ouest
	Hatley	22.0	R-208 (Overlap 0.6 km)	208 WEST: to Ayer's Cliff 208 EAST: to Compton
Coaticook	Waterville	36.2	Rue Gosselin	EAST: to Waterville
		40.8	R-108 (Overlap 6.0 km)	108 WEST: to Hatley Township
		44.1	R-147	147 SOUTH: to Compton
Sherbrooke	Lennoxville	46.8	R-108 (Overlap 6.0 km)	108 EAST: to Eaton
	Sherbrooke	50.8	R-216	216 WEST: to Magog 216 EAST: to Stoke
	Sherbrooke	51.9	R-112	112 WEST: to Rock Forest (Sherbrooke) 112 EAST: to Fleurimont (Sherbrooke)
	Bromptonville	58.3	R-222 (East end)	222 WEST: to Saint-Denis-de-Brompton
	Bromptonville	61.8	Rue Laval	WEST: to A-55
Le Val-Saint-François	Windsor	74.7	R-249	249 SOUTH: to Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton 249 NORTH: to Val-Joli
	Richmond	90.2	R-116 (Overlap 1.9 km)	116 EAST: to Cleveland
		91.3	R-243 (Overlap 1.1 km)	243 NORTH: to Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey
		92.1	R-116 (Overlap 1.9 km)	116 WEST: to Durham-Sud
		92.4	R-243 (Overlap 1.1 km)	243 SOUTH: to Melbourne
Drummond	Saint-Nicéphore	120.6	R-139 (North end)	139 SOUTH: to Wickham
	Drummondville	129.2 129.5	R-122 (Overlap 0.3 km)	122 EAST: to Saint-Charles-de-Drummond (Drummondville) 122 WEST: to Saint-Germain-de-Grantham (Drummondville)
	Drummondville	131.9 132.2	A-20 (TCH)	20 EAST: to Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover 20 WEST: to Saint-Eugène
	Saint-Bonaventure	148.8	R-224 (East end)	224 WEST: to Saint-Guillaume
Nicolet-Yamaska	Saint-François-du-Lac	165.8	R-132	132 WEST: to Saint-Gérard-Majella 132 EAST: to Pierreville
Northern terminus of Route 143