Georges-Vanier (Montreal Metro)

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Georges-Vanier

Inaugurated	28 April 1980
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Pierre-W. Major
Platform Depth	17.7 metres
Rank	20th deepest
Traffic	731,646 entrances in 2002
Rank	64th busiest
Interstation Distance	758.60 metres to Lionel-Groulx 530.60 metres to Lucien-L'Allier

Georges-Vanier is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Little Burgundy area of the borough of Le Sud-Ouest. It was inaugurated on April 28, 1980.

The metro station, designed by architect Pierre-W. Major, is a normal side-platform station, and has one access. A sculpture, Un arbre dans le parc, by Michel Dernuet, is situated on the Côte-Vertu platform; it is a large concrete pillar with illuminated branches, representing a tree.

This station is one of the least used in the network; it was 65th of 65 in traffic in 2001 and 64th in 2002, with only 700,000 passengers embarking here.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting bus routes
3 Address of entrances
4 Nearby points of interest
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for the boul. Georges-Vanier, named for the Rt. Hon. Georges-Philias Vanier. Born a few steps from the street that now bears his name, Major-General Vanier was a distinguished soldier in World War I and Canada's ambassador to all Allied governments in World War II. He served as the 19th Governor General of Canada, the first French-Canadian to occupy that position, from 1959 until his death.