Route 138 (Québec)

Route 138 in Quebec, Canada
Chemin du Roy Route des Baleines
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Basic data
Operator:	Ministère des transports du Québec
Start of the street:	Elgin ( 45 ° 0 ′  N , 74 ° 18 ′  W )
End of street:	Kegaska ( 50 ° 11 ′  N , 61 ° 16 ′  W )
Overall length:	1389.3 km
Region :	Montérégie Montreal Lanaudière Mauricie Capitale-Nationale Côte-Nord
Route 138 in the Charlevoix region
Course of the road Montérégie Continue on  S to Malone Elgin N to Sainte-Barbe Huntingdon N to Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Rivière Châteauguay Ormstown S after Saint-Chrysostome Sainte-Martine N to Beauharnois , SO to Sainte-Clotilde W to Vaudreuil-Dorion , NE to Brossard S to Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Chateauguay Kahnawake S to O after Candiac Rivière Châteauguay ( Pont Honoré-Mercier ) Montreal Montreal W to Toronto , O in Montreal in Montreal O to Sherbrooke O to Longueuil NW to Laval NW to Terrebonne , E to Boucherville Rivière des Prairies ( Pont Le Gardeur ) Lanaudière W to Terrebonne Repentigny Saint-Sulpice Lavaltrie NW to Lanoraie Berthierville SW to Joliette , E to Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola SW to Montreal , NE to Trois-Rivières Mauricie Maskinongé W after Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon Louiseville N to Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Yamachiche S to , N to Shawinigan SW to Montreal , NE to Trois-Rivières NW to Shawinigan , SE to Trois-Rivières Rivière Saint-Maurice NW to Shawinigan NW to Shawinigan W to Saint-Narcisse Rivière Batiscan Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade NW to Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac Rivière Sainte-Anne Capitale-Nationale Deschambault-Grondines NW to Saint-Marc-des-Carrières Portneuf Cap Santé NE to Pont-Rouge Rivière Jacques-Cartier NW to Pont-Rouge Neuville Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures SW to Trois-Rivières , E to Québec SW to Quebec NW to Shannon , S to Lévis in Québec Rivière Saint-Charles in Québec in Québec O to the Île d'Orléans ( Pont de l'île d'Orléans ) Rivière Montmorency Château-Richer Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Beaupré N to Mont Sainte-Anne Rivière Sainte-Anne (du Nord) SW to Mont Sainte-Anne Baie-Saint-Paul O to Les Éboulements N to Saguenay Clermont La Malbaie S to Les Éboulements Saint-Siméon NW to Saguenay Baie-Sainte-Catherine Rivière Saguenay (ferry connection) Côte-Nord Tadoussac W to Saguenay Les Escoumins Portneuf-sur-Mer Rivière Portneuf Forestville N to the Bersimis power plant Rivière Betsiamites Betsiamites Rivière aux Outardes Rivière Manicouagan Baie-Comeau Rivière Godbout Godbout Rivière Pentecôte Port-Cartier Rivière aux Rochers Sept-Îles Rivière Moisie Rivière au Tonnerre Rivière Saint-Jean Rivière Manitou Rivière Romaine Havre-Saint-Pierre Rivière Watshishou Natashquan Rivière Natashquan Kegaska Kegaska – Vieux Fort planned Vieux Fort Rivière Saint-Paul Blanc-Sablon Continue on  Trans-Labrador Highway to Red Bay  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Route 138 is a national road ( route nationale ) of the Canadian province of Quebec . It begins on the border with the US state of New York and runs along the north bank of the Saint Lawrence River to the south coast of the Labrador Peninsula . The length of the road is 1,389.3 kilometers.

Route description

Route 138 begins as a continuation of New York State Route 30 on the Canada-US border , near the village of Elgin . It follows the Rivière Trout and the Rivière Châteauguay to the city of Châteauguay . At Kahnawake , it crosses the Saint Lawrence River and reaches the Île de Montréal , on which the metropolis of Montreal is located. After crossing the Rivière des Prairies , the mainland is reached again at Repentigny . Route 138 then runs parallel to the north bank of the St. Lawrence River. It reaches the provincial capital Québec via Trois-Rivières . The section between Montreal and Québec essentially corresponds to the Chemin du Roy ("Royal Route"), which was completed in 1737 and is one of the oldest highways in North America.

The portion of Route 138 north of Québec is also known as the Route des Baleines ("Whale Route"), as a particularly large number of whales can be seen on the banks of the Lower St. Lawrence River and the coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence . This is particularly true of Tadoussac , where the over one kilometer wide tributary Rivière Saguenay is crossed by a ferry operated by the Société des traversiers du Québec (24-hour service). The road leads through the sparsely populated region of Côte-Nord via Baie-Comeau and Sept-Îles to the southern part of the Labrador Peninsula .

Until the 1990s, the eastern end of Route 138 was in Havre-Saint-Pierre , and in 1996 the road to Natashquan was extended. A second, isolated stretch extends from Vieux-Port to Blanc-Sablon , where it meets the Trans-Labrador Highway in the Newfoundland and Labrador Province . In 2011 the provincial government announced a 10-year plan to close the 425 km long gap between the two sections. Since September 26, 2013 the road from Natashquan has continued 40 km to Kegaska .

Web links

Commons : Route 138  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Carte routière officielle du Québec
• Ministère des transports du Québec
• Chemin du Roy and Route des Baleines

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ministère des Transports du Québec (ed.): Distances routière . Les Publications du Québec, Québec 2005, ISBN 2-551-19693-0 , pp. 66-69 .
2. ^ West from Blanc Sablon - Quebec. Trans-Labrador-Highway, 2003, accessed September 6, 2014 . 
3. ^ Québec investit 122 M $ supplémentaires pour le prolongement de la route 138 en basse-côte-nord. Québec Prime Minister, May 30, 2011, accessed September 6, 2014 (French). 
4. ↑ Une nouvelle route pour Kegaska. Radio Canada , September 26, 2013, accessed September 6, 2014 (French).