Sherbrooke (Montreal Metro)

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Sherbrooke

Inaugurated	14 October 1966
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Jean Dumontier Crevier, Lemieux, Mercier et Caron
Platform Depth	10.4 metres
Rank	51st deepest
Traffic	3,870,759 entrances in 2002
Rank	21st busiest
Interstation Distance	579.10 metres to Berri-UQAM 932.10 metres to Mont-Royal

Sherbrooke is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in The Plateau neighbourhood of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. It was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the metro.

The metro station, designed by Jean Dumontier and Crevier, Lemieux, Mercier et Caron, is a normal side-platform station, built in open cut due to the difficulty of construction under Berri Street near the Sherbrooke Street overpass. It has a single mezzanine giving access to two entrances, one on either side of Berri Street, both integrated into buildings.

The station's main artwork is a mosaic, the only one in the metro, on the Côte-Vertu platform. By Gabriel Bastien and Andrea Vau, it depicts the achievements of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, whose headquarters are nearby.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting bus routes
- 2.1 Regular routes
- 2.2 Night routes
3 Address of entrances
4 Nearby points of interest
5 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for Sherbrooke Street. Sir John Coape Sherbrooke (1764-1830) served as governor general of British North America 1816-1818. The street was named for him in 1817.