Square-Victoria (Montreal Metro)

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Square-Victoria

Inaugurated	6 February 1967
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Irving Sager
Platform Depth	16.2 metres
Rank	31st deepest
Traffic	4,133,844 entrances in 2002
Rank	18th busiest
Interstation Distance	392.60 metres to Bonaventure 356.60 metres to Place-d'Armes

Square-Victoria is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Quartier International district of downtown Montreal, in the borough of Ville-Marie.

It was inaugurated 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.

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 mondiale.

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; a mural in the pedestrian tunnel, by Jean-Paul Mousseau, has been temporarily removed. The southern rotunda contains a multimedia installation entitled Ars Natura, promoting Montreal's science museums.

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.

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
- 4.1 Connected via the underground city
- 4.2 Other
5 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Connecting bus routes

[edit] Regular routes

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
36 Monk	Map	Schedule
61 Wellington	Map	Schedule
74 Bridge (One block west from Beaver Hall Hill on University Avenue)	Map	Schedule
75 De la Commune	Map	Schedule
168 Cité-du-Havre	Map	Schedule
420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	Map	Schedule

[edit] Night routes

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
358 Sainte-Catherine (one block north on boul. René Lévesque ouest)	Map	Schedule

[edit] Address of entrances

Belmont entrance: 605, Belmont St., at Beaver Hall Hill
Viger entrance: 601, Viger Ave., at Beaver Hall Hill
Saint Antoine entrance: 601, Saint Antoine St. W., at Square-Victoria St. (within Victoria Square)
Saint Jacques entrance: 605, Saint Jacques Street W., at Square-Victoria Street (within Victoria Square)
Beaver Hall Hill entrance: Beaver Hall Hill between Viger Ave. and Saint Antoine Street (ICAO Building)

[edit] Nearby points of interest

[edit] 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
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