Square-Victoria (Montreal Metro)

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Square-Victoria
Hector Guimard's art nouveau entrance portico.
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 Victoria Square near the Quartier international de Montréal district, 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.

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[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 main intersections

[edit] Nearby points of interest

[edit] Connected via the underground city

[edit] Other

[edit] External links

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