Square-Victoria (Montreal Metro)

Montreal Metro Station
Borough	Ville-Marie
City	Montreal
Opened	6 February 1967
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Irving Sager
Artist	Hector Guimard, Robert Savoie, Jean-Paul Mousseau
Platform Depth	16.2 metres
Rank	31st deepest
Traffic	3,693,589 entrances in 2006
Rank	22nd of 68
Interstation Distance	392.60 metres to Bonaventure 356.60 metres to Place-d'Armes
Address of Entrances	4 entrances: 605, Belmont Street 601, Viger Avenue 601 Saint Antoine Street W 605, Saint Jacques Street W
Nearby Main Intersections	Belmont Street / Beaver Hall Hill Viger Avenue / Beaver Hall Hill Saint Antoine Street W / Square-Victoria Street

Square-Victoria is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located in Victoria Square near the Quartier international de Montréal district, in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station opened on February 6, 1967, four months after most of the initial network, and was briefly the terminus of the orange line until Bonaventure station was opened a week later.

Overview

The metro station is a normal side platform station; its central mezzanine is connected to a very long tunnel running along Beaver Hall Hill and under Victoria Square, giving access to its various exits.

Each of the station's exits is connected to another building or buildings via the underground city. The Belmont exit is connected to and located in the 1080 Beaver Hall Hill building; the Viger exit is likewise connected to and located in the Bell Tower/National Bank complex. The Saint Antoine exit is a link in the main part of the underground city, linking the ICAO building with the Centre CDP Capital, while the rotunda at the south end of the tunnel, leading to the Saint Jacques exit, links the Tour de la Bourse with the Centre de commerce mondial.

The station was designed by Irving Sager. Two steel murals by Robert Savoie, entitled Kawari Kabuto, grace the walls of the great volume over the tunnel vaults, and a mural in the pedestrian tunnel to the northern entrances is by Jean-Paul Mousseau. The southern rotunda formerly contained a multimedia installation entitled Ars Natura, promoting Montreal's science museums.

Hector Guimard's entrance portico

The most famous artwork, however, is one of Hector Guimard's art nouveau entrance porticos from the Paris Métro. One of the few authentic installations on a metro station outside Paris, it was given in 1967 by the RATP (Régie autonome des transports parisiens) to commemorate the collaboration of French and Canadian engineers in building the metro. It is located within Victoria Square on the Saint Antoine entrance, one of only four open-air entrances on the network (the others are located at Place-Saint-Henri and Bonaventure stations). It was recently removed, completely restored, and reinstalled.

The station is equipped with the MétroVision information screens which displays news, commercials, and the time till the next train.

Origin of the name

This station is named for Victoria Square, which has existed since 1813; it was renamed for Queen Victoria on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to Montreal in 1860.

Connecting bus routes

Main articles: Société de transport de Montréal and List of Montreal Bus Routes

Main article: CIT du Sud-Ouest

Société de transport de Montréal
Route	Service Times	Map	Schedule
36 Monk	All-day	Map	Schedule
61 Wellington	All-day	Map	Schedule
74 Bridge	Rush Hour	Map	Schedule
75 de la Commune	Rush Hour	Map	Schedule
168 Cité-du-Havre	All-day	Map	Schedule
178 Pointe-Nord/Île-des-Soeurs	All-day Weekdays	Map	Schedule
420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	All-day Weekdays	Map	Schedule
435 Express Du Parc/Côte-des-Neiges	Rush Hour Monday-Friday	Map	Schedule
CIT du Sud-Ouest
Route	Service Times	Map	Schedule
1 Valleyfield - Montréal	All-day	N/A	Schedule
28 Châteauguay - Downtown Montréal	Rush Hour Monday-Friday	N/A	Schedule

Nearby points of interest

Connected via the underground city

• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• Tour Bell
• Tour Banque Nationale
• 1080 Beaver Hall Hill
• Place de la Cité internationale - Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
• W Hotel Montreal
• Centre de commerce mondial de Montréal (Edifice Canada Steamship Lines, Hôtel Inter-Continental)
• Tour de la Bourse (Bourse de Montréal, Place Victoria, Hôtel Delta Centre-Ville)
• Bonaventure metro station and points west
• Place-d'Armes metro station and points east

Other

• Quartier international de Montréal
• Cité Multimédia
• Saint Patrick's Basilica
• Victoria Square
• Place Félix-Martin - American Consulate-General
• Le Curateur public du Québec
• TD Canada Trust Building
• Royal Bank Building
• V

External links

• Square-Victoria Station - official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com - photos, information, and trivia
• 2008 STM system map
• 2008 Downtown System Map
• Metro Map