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Route 265 is a two-lane north/south highway on the south shore of the
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in
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. Its northern terminus is in Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is at the junction of Route 165 in
Plessisville Plessisville () is a county seat of L'Érable Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. Routes 116 and 165 go through it. The city is 185 km from Montreal and 95 km from Quebec City. The city has hosted an annual Maple festival ...
. It used to continue up to Black Lake (now part of
Thetford Mines Thetford Mines (; Canada 2021 Census population 26,072) is a city in south-central Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality. The city is located in the Appalachian Mountains, 187 km east-northeast of Mo ...
) at the junction of Route 112, but the segment between Plessisville and Black Lake was later re-numbered to Route 165 in the 1990s.


Towns along Route 265

* Deschaillons-sur-Saint-Laurent * Parisville *
Fortierville Fortierville () is a municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Aurore Gagnon who died here from a severe case of child abuse in the early 1920s, is a historical figure of the municipality. See also *List ...
* Sainte-Françoise * Villeroy * Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes *
Plessisville Plessisville () is a county seat of L'Érable Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada. Routes 116 and 165 go through it. The city is 185 km from Montreal and 95 km from Quebec City. The city has hosted an annual Maple festival ...


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


Route 265
on Google Maps
Provincial Route Map (Courtesy of the Quebec Ministry of Transportation)
265 __NOTOC__ Year 265 (Roman numerals, CCLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerianus and Lucillus (or, less frequently, year 1018 ''Ab urbe condita''). Th ...
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