List of Montreal metro stations
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This is a list of the metro stations on the four lines of the Montreal Metro, in Quebec, Canada.
Name | Odonym | Namesake |
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Line 1 - Green | ||
Angrignon | Boulevard Angrignon; Parc Angrignon | J.B. Arthur Angrignon, city councillor |
Monk | Boulevard Monk | James Monk, Québec attorney-general |
Jolicoeur | Rue Jolicoeur | J-Moïse Jolicoeur, parish priest |
Verdun | Rue de Verdun; borough of Verdun | Notre-Dame-de-Saverdun, France, hometown of Seigneur Zacharie Dupuis |
De L'Église | Avenue de l'Église | Église Saint-Paul |
LaSalle | Boulevard LaSalle | Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer |
Charlevoix | Rue Charlevoix | F.-X. de Charlevoix, French historian and explorer |
Lionel-Groulx | Avenue Lionel-Groulx | Fr. Lionel Groulx, Québec historian |
Atwater | Avenue Atwater | Edwin Atwater, city councillor |
Guy-Concordia Formerly Guy | Rue Guy | Étienne Guy, landowner |
Concordia University | Concordia salus (Prosperity Through Concord), motto of Montreal | |
Peel | Rue Peel | Robert Peel, British Prime Minister |
McGill | Avenue McGill College; McGill University | James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman |
Place-des-Arts | Place des Arts cultural complex | |
Saint-Laurent | Boulevard Saint-Laurent | Saint Lawrence or Saint Lawrence River |
Berri-UQAM Formerly Berri-de Montigny | Rue Berri | Name given by Migeon de Branssat in 1669; origin unknown |
Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
Rue de Montigny | Testard de Montigny family | |
Beaudry | Rue Beaudry | Pierre Beaudry, landowner |
Papineau | Avenue Papineau | Joseph Papineau, Québec politician (father of Louis-Joseph Papineau) |
Frontenac | Rue Frontenac | Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Govenor-Geneneral of New France |
Préfontaine | Rue Préfontaine; Parc Raymond-Préfontaine | Raymond-Fournier Préfontaine, mayor of Montreal |
Joliette | Rue Joliette | Barthélemy Joliette, founder of Joliette, Quebec |
Pie-IX | Boulevard Pie-IX | Pope Pius IX |
Viau | Rue Viau | Charles-Théodore Viau, Quebec cookie magnate |
Assomption | Boulevard de l'Assomption | Dogma of the Assumption of Mary |
Cadillac | Rue de Cadillac | Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer |
Langelier | Boul. Langelier | François-Charles-Stanislas Langelier, mayor of Quebec City and Lieutenant-Governor of Québec |
Radisson | Rue Radisson | Pierre-Esprit Radisson, French explorer |
Honoré-Beaugrand | Rue Honoré-Beaugrand | Honoré Beaugrand, Québec author and mayor of Montreal |
Line 2 - Orange | ||
Côte-Vertu | Chemin de la Côte-Vertu | Notre-Dame-de-la-Vertu (Our Lady of Virtue), 18th century name for the area |
Du Collège | Rue du Collège | CEGEP Saint-Laurent, local cégep |
De La Savane | Rue de la Savane | savane - a savanna or Québécois for swamp |
Namur | Rue Namur | Namur, Belgium |
Plamondon | Avenue Plamondon | Antoine Plamondon, Québécois painter, or Rodolphe Plamondon, Québécois lyric artist |
Côte-Sainte-Catherine | Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine | Côte Sainte-Catherine, 18th century name for area of Outremont |
Snowdon | Rue Snowdon; Snowdon neighbourhood | Name of area's former landowner |
Villa-Maria | Villa-Maria High School | Latin form of "Ville-Marie," former name of Montreal |
Vendôme | Avenue de Vendôme | Likely from the French Dukes of Vendôme |
Place-Saint-Henri | Place Saint-Henri | A parish church named for Saint Henry II, to commemorate Fr. Henri-Auguste Roux |
Lionel-Groulx | Avenue Lionel-Groulx | Fr. Lionel Groulx, Québécois historian |
Georges-Vanier | Boulevard Georges-Vanier | Georges Vanier, Governor-Geneneral of Canada |
Lucien-L'Allier | Rue Lucien-L'Allier | Lucien L'Allier, Québécois engineer, designer of the Metro |
Bonaventure | Place Bonaventure | Gare Bonaventure, in turn for former Rue Bonaventure; St Bonaventure, Italian cleric |
Square-Victoria | Square Victoria | Queen Victoria |
Place-d'Armes | 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 Formerly Berri-de Montigny | Rue Berri | Name given by Migeon de Branssat in 1669; origin unknown |
Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
Rue de Montigny | Testard de Montigny family | |
Sherbrooke | Rue Sherbrooke | John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor-General of British North America |
Mont-Royal | Avenue du Mont-Royal | Mount Royal |
Laurier | Avenue Laurier | Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada |
Rosemont | Boulevard Rosemont; Rosemont neighbourhood | Named by developer U.-H. Dandurand for his mother, née Rose Phillips |
Beaubien | Rue Beaubien | Prominent landowning family |
Jean-Talon | Rue Jean-Talon | Jean Talon, intendant of New France |
Jarry | Rue Jarry | Stanislas Blénier dit Jarry père, landowner |
Crémazie | Boul. Crémazie | Octave Crémazie, QC poet |
Sauvé | Rue Sauvé | Name of a landowner |
Henri-Bourassa | Boulevard Henri-Bourassa | Henri Bourassa, Québécois journalist and politician |
Cartier | Boulevard Cartier | Sir George-Étienne Cartier Québécois politician, Father of Confederation |
De La Concorde | Boulevard de la Concorde | Place de la Concorde in Paris |
Montmorency | Collège Montmorency | François de Montmorency-Laval, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec and landowner of Île Jésus (Laval) |
Line 4 - Yellow | ||
Berri-UQAM Formerly Berri-de Montigny | Rue Berri | Name given by Migeon de Branssat in 1669; origin unknown |
Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
Rue de Montigny | Testard de Montigny family | |
Jean-Drapeau Formerly Île-Sainte-Hélène | Parc Jean-Drapeau | Jean Drapeau, late ex-mayor of Montreal |
Île Sainte-Hélène | Named by Samuel de Champlain for his wife, née Hélène Boullé | |
Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke Formerly Longueuil | City of Longueuil | Probably for a town in Normandy |
University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil campus, in Édifice Saint-Charles | ||
Line 5 - Blue | ||
Snowdon | Rue Snowdon; Snowdon neighbourhood | Name of landowner |
Côte-des-Neiges | Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges | Former Village of Côte-des-Neiges; name Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (Our Lady of the Snows) dates to 18th century |
Université-de-Montréal | Université de Montréal | |
Édouard-Montpetit | Boul. Édouard-Montpetit | Édouard Montpetit, Université de Montréal professor |
Outremont | Avenue Outremont; borough of Outremont | Named for a prominent estate (Outremont means "other side of the mountain") |
Acadie | Boulevard de l'Acadie | Commemorates bicentennial of the expulsion of the Acadians |
Parc | Avenue du Parc | Mont Royal Park |
De Castelnau | Rue De Castelnau | Édouard de Castelnau, French soldier |
Jean-Talon | Rue Jean-Talon | Jean Talon, intendant of New France |
Fabre | Rue Fabre | Édouard-Charles Fabre, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal |
D'Iberville | Rue D'Iberville | Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Québécois explorer, founder of Louisiana |
Saint-Michel | Boulevard Saint-Michel; neighbourhood of Saint-Michel | Saint Michael; long-standing name |