Route 216 is a two-lane east/west highway in
Quebec,
Canada, which starts in Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley in the
Estrie region at the junction of
Route 108 and ends in Sainte-Perpétue in
Chaudière-Appalaches
Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...
at the junction of
Route 204.
Route 216 follows mostly a northeast/southwest course, and it is not a busy highway as it mostly links small villages between themselves in the backroads of the
Appalachians. The only two major towns along the way are Sherbrooke and Sainte-Marie. Between Ham-Nord (junction with
Route 161) and Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown (junction with
Route 263), the road is unpaved.
Municipalities along Route 216
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Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley
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Sherbrooke
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Stoke
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Saint-Camille
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Wotton
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Saint-Adrien
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Ham-Nord
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Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown
Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown is a parish municipality in Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population is 189 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
It was named after one of J ...
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Saint-Julien
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Irlande
Irlande is a municipality in Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec, Canada. Its population was 884 as of the Canada 2016 Census.
Irlande does not have a town or village centre, but the hamlet o ...
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Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande
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Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf
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Kinnear's Mills
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Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds
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Saint-Sylvestre
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Saint-Elzéar
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Sainte-Marie
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Sainte-Marguerite
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Saint-Malachie
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Saint-Nazaire-de-Dorchester
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Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice-du-Buckland
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Saint-Philémon
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Saint-Paul-de-Montminy
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Sainte-Apolline-de-Patton
Sainte-Apolline-de-Patton is a parish municipality of 542 people in Montmagny Regional County Municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Ap ...
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Saint-Marcel
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Sainte-Félicité
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Sainte-Perpétue
File:Route 216 à Sherbrooke.jpg, Route 216 in Mont-Bellevue borough, Sherbrooke.
File:Fog over the bridge - panoramio.jpg, Route 216 through downtown Sherbrooke.
File:CHUS - panoramio.jpg, Route 216 is the main road to Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke
The Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) is the public healthcare network in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke Faculty of Medecine.
The CHUS offers general, specialized and sub-specialize ...
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File:Route 216 et panneaux - panoramio.jpg, Route 216 in Stoke.
File:Route 216 (St-Jacques-de-Leeds).jpg, Route 216 in Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds.
File:Rue Principale (route 216 ouest) à Saint-Sylvestre-de-Beaurivage.jpg, Principale street in à Saint-Sylvestre.
File:Route 216 (Sainte-Félicité).jpg, Route 216 in Sainte-Félicité.
File:Route 216 (Saint-Marcel).jpg, Route 216 in Saint-Marcel.
See also
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List of Quebec provincial highways
This is a list of highways maintained by the government of Quebec.
Autoroutes
The Autoroute system in Quebec is a network of expressways which operate under the same principle of controlled access as the Interstate Highway System in the United ...
References
External links
Provincial Route Map (Courtesy of the Quebec Ministry of Transportation)
Route 216in Google Maps
{{Secondary Highways in Quebec (200-series)
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Year 216 (Roman numerals, CCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Anullinus (or, less frequently, ...
Transport in Sherbrooke