List of Stations
Station | Inauguration date | Odonym | Namesake |
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Côte-Vertu | September 3, 1986 | Côte-Vertu Road | Notre-Dame-de-la-Vertu (Our Lady of Virtue), 18th century name for the area |
Du Collège | January 9, 1984 | Du Collège Street | Cégep de Saint-Laurent, local cégep |
De La Savane | De la Savane Street | savane - a savanna or Québécois for swamp | |
Namur | Namur Street | Namur, Belgium | |
Plamondon | June 29, 1982 | Plamondon Avenue | Antoine Plamondon, Québécois painter, or Rodolphe Plamondon, Québécois lyric artist |
Côte-Sainte-Catherine | January 4, 1982 | Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road | Côte Sainte-Catherine, 18th century name for area of Outremont |
Snowdon
|
September 7, 1981 January 4, 1988 |
Snowdon Street; Snowdon neighbourhood | Name of area's former landowner |
Villa-Maria | September 7, 1981 | Villa-Maria High School | Latin form of "Ville-Marie," former name of Montreal |
Vendôme | De Vendôme Avenue | Likely from the French Dukes of Vendôme | |
Place-Saint-Henri | April 28, 1980 | Place Saint-Henri | A parish church named for Saint Henry II, to commemorate Fr. Henri-Auguste Roux |
Lionel-Groulx
|
September 3, 1978
April 28, 1980 |
Lionel-Groulx Avenue | Fr. Lionel Groulx, historien Quebec historian |
Georges-Vanier | April 28, 1980 | Georges-Vanier Boulevard | Georges Vanier, Governor-General of Canada |
Lucien-L'Allier | Lucien-L'Allier Street | Lucien L'Allier, General Manager of the Transit Commission when the Metro opened | |
Bonaventure | February 13, 1967 | Place Bonaventure | Bonaventure Station, in turn for former Bonaventure Street; St. Bonaventure, Italian cleric |
Square-Victoria | February 7, 1967 | Victoria Square | Queen Victoria |
Place-d'Armes | October 14, 1966 | Place d'Armes | Historical rallying point for city's defenders |
Champ-de-Mars | Champ de Mars Park | Common term for military exercise ground (Mars, god of war) | |
Berri-UQAM
|
October 14, 1966
April 1, 1967 |
Berri Street;
Université du Québec à Montréal; De Montigny Street |
Name given by Migeon de Branssat in 1669; named for Simon Després dit Le Berry;
Testard de Montigny family |
Sherbrooke | October 14, 1966 | Sherbrooke Street | John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor-General of British North America |
Mont-Royal | Mount Royal Avenue | Mount Royal | |
Laurier | Laurier Avenue | Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada | |
Rosemont | Rosemont Boulevard; Rosemont neighbourhood | Named by developer U.-H. Dandurand for his mother, née Rose Phillips | |
Beaubien | Beaubien Street | Prominent landowning family | |
Jean-Talon
|
October 14, 1966 June 16, 1986 |
Jean-Talon Street | Jean Talon, intendant of New France |
Jarry | October 14, 1966 | Jarry Street | Stanislas Blénier dit Jarry père, landowner or Honoré-Bernard Bleignier Jarry |
Crémazie | Crémazie Boulevard | Octave Crémazie, Quebec poet | |
Sauvé | Sauvé Street | Name of a landowner | |
Henri-Bourassa | Henri-Bourassa Boulevard | Henri Bourassa, Québécois journalist and politician | |
Cartier | April 28, 2007 | Cartier Boulevard | Sir George-Étienne Cartier Québécois politician, Father of Confederation |
De La Concorde | April 28, 2007 | De la Concorde Boulevard | Place de la Concorde in Paris |
Montmorency | April 28, 2007 | Collège Montmorency | François de Montmorency-Laval, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec and landowner of Île Jésus (Laval) |
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