Bonaventure (Montreal Metro)
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Bonaventure is a station
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

 on the Orange Line
Line 2 Orange (Montreal Metro)
The Orange line is the longest, most congested, and first-planned of the four lines of the Montreal Metro, in Montreal, Canada. It formed part of the initial network, and was extended between 1980 and 1986...

 of the Montreal Metro
Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro is a rubber-tired metro system, and the main form of public transportation underground in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada....

 rapid transit system
Rapid transit
A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal
Société de transport de Montréal
The Société de transport de Montréal is a public transport agency that operates transit bus, and rapid transit services in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

 (STM). It is located in the borough of Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

.

It opened on February 13, 1967, four months after most of the initial network. It served as the western terminus of the Orange Line for 14 years until the extension to Place-Saint-Henri
Place-Saint-Henri (Montreal Metro)
Place-Saint-Henri is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the Saint-Henri area of the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ....

 was opened in 1981.

Overview

Designed by Victor Prus, the metro station is a normal side platform
Side platform
A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

 station, built Cut-and-cover in order to provide a large space for the heavily trafficked mezzanine
Mezzanine (architecture)
In architecture, a mezzanine or entresol is an intermediate floor between main floors of a building, and therefore typically not counted among the overall floors of a building. Often, a mezzanine is low-ceilinged and projects in the form of a balcony. The term is also used for the lowest balcony in...

. As a key part of the underground city, the mezzanine has ticket barriers
Turnstile
A turnstile, also called a baffle gate, is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time. It can also be made so as to enforce one-way traffic of people, and in addition, it can restrict passage only to people who insert a coin, a ticket, a pass, or similar...

 on either side, in order to allow pedestrians to pass from one end of the station to the other. Bridges over the tracks
Rail tracks
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast , plus the underlying subgrade...

 below the mezzanine level allow passengers to cross from one platform to the other.

Until 1992, the station had only one outdoor entrance, in front of Windsor Station
Windsor Station (Montreal)
Windsor Station is a former train station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formerly serving as the city's Canadian Pacific Railway Station.Windsor Station was the Canadian Pacific Railway's headquarters built between 1887 and 1889. The Romanesque Revival building was designed by New York architect...

; two additional accesses led directly to Place Bonaventure
Place Bonaventure
Place Bonaventure is an office, exhibition and hotel complex in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, adjacent to the city's Central Station. At in size, Place Bonaventure was the world's largest building upon its completion in 1967....

 and Gare Centrale (Central Station) on one end, and the Château Champlain
Montreal Marriott Château Champlain
The Château Champlain is a hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada overlooking Place du Canada, at 1050 De la Gauchetière Street West...

 and Place du Canada on the other. When 1000 de La Gauchetière
1000 de La Gauchetière
1000 de la Gauchetière is a skyscraper in the Canadian city of Montreal and is the tallest building in Montreal. It is named for its address at 1000 De la Gauchetière Street West in the city's downtown. It rises to the maximum height approved by the city at 205 m and 51 floors...

 was built directly above the station, additional accesses were added to the office tower and the Downtown Terminus
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...

 (metropolitan bus terminal for Réseau de transport de Longueuil
Réseau de transport de Longueuil
Réseau de transport de Longueuil is a public transit carrier in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada and nearby communities on the South Shore of Montreal...

 and South Shore
South Shore (Montreal)
The South Shore is the general term for the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec located on the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. The South Shore is located within the Quebec administrative region of Montérégie....

 buses) within it, as well as a street entrance on the western side of the building on Cathédrale Street and improved access to Central Station and Place Bonaventure.

The station is intermodal with the Agence métropolitaine de transport
Agence métropolitaine de transport
The Agence métropolitaine de transport is the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across Canada's Greater Montreal Region, including the Island of Montreal, Laval , and communities along both the North Shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles...

 (AMT)'s commuter train lines, through its underground access to Central Station, a station on the Montreal/Deux-Montagnes and Montreal/Mont-Saint-Hilaire lines. There is also underground access to the Lucien-L'Allier train station
Lucien-L'Allier (AMT)
Lucien-L'Allier is the commuter rail terminal for the AMT Vaudreuil-Hudson, Blainville-Saint-Jerome, and Candiac lines in the Greater Montreal area in Quebec, Canada. Lucien-L'Allier is in Fare Zone 1. It is one of the two downtown terminals for Montreal commuter trains, the other being Gare...

 as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station
Lucien-L'Allier (Montreal Metro)
Lucien-L'Allier is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the borough of Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Overview:...

.

Elevator
Elevator
An elevator is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building, vessel or other structures...

s were added between the mezzanine and the platforms in November 2009, making the station more accessible to people with reduced mobility. However, there is currently no step-free access to the surface, nor do the elevators allow passengers to change platforms without exiting the ticket barriers. An existing elevator connecting the station to Place du Canada and the Château Champlain, formerly the only elevator in the system, is separated from the mezzanine level by steps. An elevator link between the station and the AMT bus terminus and thence to the surface is planned.

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 Place Bonaventure
Place Bonaventure
Place Bonaventure is an office, exhibition and hotel complex in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, adjacent to the city's Central Station. At in size, Place Bonaventure was the world's largest building upon its completion in 1967....

, a major commercial complex containing businesses, the Hilton Hotel, and the Société de transport de Montréal
Société de transport de Montréal
The Société de transport de Montréal is a public transport agency that operates transit bus, and rapid transit services in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

's headquarters. This was named for Bonaventure Station
Bonaventure Station
Bonaventure Station is the name of several railway stations located in Downtown Montreal, Quebec.-Grand Trunk Railway:Named for its location on Saint Bonaventure Street, now Saint Jacques Street, the first Bonaventure Station was built in 1847 as the main terminal for the Montreal and Lachine Railway...

, a former station on the Grand Trunk Railway
Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec; however, corporate...

, which in turn was named for its location on Saint Bonaventure Street, now Saint Jacques Street
Saint Jacques Street
Saint Jacques Street is a major street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.The street has had two official names: St. James Street in English after St. James's, London; and its current appellation, rue Saint-Jacques, in French. Both names are sometimes used in English, though Saint-Jacques is the most...

. All derive their name from St. Bonaventure
Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure, O.F.M., , born John of Fidanza , was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the...

, a 13th-century Italian philosopher and mystic.

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RouteService TimesMapSchedule
Société de transport de Montréal
36 Monk
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74 Bridge
Rush Hour Monday-Friday
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75 de la Commune
Rush Hour Monday-Friday
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107 Verdun
All-day
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410 Express Notre-Dame
Rush Hour Monday-Friday
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420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
All-day Monday-Friday
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430 Express Pointe-aux-Trembles
Rush Hour Monday-Friday
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480 Pointe-Nord/Île-des-Sœurs
Rush Hour Monday-Friday
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515 Old Port/Old Montreal
All-day
Map
Schedule
535 Reserve Lane Parc/Côte-des-Neiges
535 Reserve Lane Parc/Côte-des-Neiges
The 535 Reserve Lane Parc/Côte-des-Neiges is a reserve lane bus route in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . The route operates from Monday to Friday during both morning and afternoon rush hours...


Rush Hour Monday-Friday
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Réseau de transport de Longueuil
5 Montée Saint-Hubert - Maisonneuve
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
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15 Churchill - Terminus Longueuil
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
Map
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30 Terminus Panama - Sectors P-V (Brossard)
Rush Hour
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31 Terminus Panama - Sectors S-T (Brossard)
Rush Hour
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32 Sector B (Brossard and Saint-Hubert) - Mountainview
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
Map
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33 Sectors M-N-O (Brossard)
Rush Hour
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34 Sector A (Brossard) - Centenaire
Rush Hour
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35 Sector L (Brossard) - DIX30
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
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37 Simard - Du Béarn
Rush Hour
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38 Sector B (Brossard and Saint-Hubert)
Rush Hour
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42 Gaétan-Boucher - Cité soleil
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
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44 Sectors M-N-O (Brossard)
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
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45 EXPRESS Terminus Panama
Terminus Brossard-Panama (AMT)
Terminus Brossard-Panama is an AMT bus terminus in Brossard, Quebec, Canada. It is served by buses of the Réseau de transport de Longueuil as well as by routes of the CIT Le Richelain and CIT Roussillon. Inaugurated in the fall of 1991, it is located at the intersection of Panama Street and...


All-day
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46 Terminus Panama - Sectors R-S-T (Brossard)
Rush Hour
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47 Terminus Panama - Sector R-S-T (Brossard)
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
Map
Schedule
48 Rome/Milan - Saint-Laurent
Rush Hour
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49 Terminus Panama - Sector R-S
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
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50 Prince-Charles
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
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55 Victoria - Wellington
Rush Hour
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59 Gareau
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86 De Montarville - Samuel-de-Champlain On De la Gauchetière street
Rush Hour
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87 Fort-Saint-Louis - Marie-Victorin On De la Gauchetière street
Rush Hour
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90 EXPRESS AMT Chevrier
Chevrier Park-n-Ride (AMT)
Chevrier Park-n-Ride is an AMT bus terminal with an incentive parking lot located in Brossard, Quebec, Canada.It is served by buses of the Réseau de transport de Longueuil and is located at 4700 rue Lapinière in the C section of Brossard at the crossing of rue Lapinière and the CN railway tracks...


All-day
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115 Churchill
Rush Hour
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132 Westley - Cité soleil
Rush Hour (All day connection with 45 at Panama Terminal)
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142 Gaétan Boucher
Rush Hour
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150 Orchard
Rush Hour
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CIT Chambly-Richelieu-Carignan
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...





CIT de la Vallée du Richelieu
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...





CIT du Sud-Ouest
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...





Ville de Sainte-Julie
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...





CIT Le Richelain
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...





CIT Roussillon
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...





CIT du Haut-Saint-Laurent
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...





Ville de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
See Terminus Centre-Ville
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...






Connected via the underground city

  • Terminus Centre-Ville
    Réseau de transport de Longueuil
    Réseau de transport de Longueuil is a public transit carrier in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada and nearby communities on the South Shore of Montreal...

  • 1000 de La Gauchetière
    1000 de La Gauchetière
    1000 de la Gauchetière is a skyscraper in the Canadian city of Montreal and is the tallest building in Montreal. It is named for its address at 1000 De la Gauchetière Street West in the city's downtown. It rises to the maximum height approved by the city at 205 m and 51 floors...

  • Place Ville-Marie
    Place Ville-Marie
    1 Place Ville-Marie , formerly Royal Bank Tower taken from its anchor tenant, is a with 47-storey, cruciform office tower built in the International style in 1962, arguably the most distinctive building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in the 1960s as the headquarters of the Royal Bank of...

  • Place Bonaventure
    Place Bonaventure
    Place Bonaventure is an office, exhibition and hotel complex in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, adjacent to the city's Central Station. At in size, Place Bonaventure was the world's largest building upon its completion in 1967....

  • Place du Canada
    Place du Canada
    Place du Canada is a large urban square in downtown Montreal.- Overview :At it is slightly larger than the adjacent Dorchester Square, with a more varied topography due to a downward slope towards De la Gauchetière Street...

     - Hôtel Château Champlain
    Montreal Marriott Château Champlain
    The Château Champlain is a hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada overlooking Place du Canada, at 1050 De la Gauchetière Street West...

  • Gare Centrale
    Gare Centrale (Montreal)
    Central Station is the major inter-city rail station and a major commuter rail hub in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 18 million rail passengers use the station every year....

     - Via Rail
    VIA Rail
    Via Rail Canada is an independent crown corporation offering intercity passenger rail services in Canada. It is headquartered near Montreal Central Station at 3 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec....

    , Amtrak
    Amtrak
    The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...

     and AMT
    Agence métropolitaine de transport
    The Agence métropolitaine de transport is the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across Canada's Greater Montreal Region, including the Island of Montreal, Laval , and communities along both the North Shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles...

  • Canadian National Railway
    Canadian National Railway
    The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad"....

     headquarters
  • Queen Elizabeth Hotel
    Queen Elizabeth Hotel
    The Queen Elizabeth Hotel is a grand hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Completed in 1958, it was built by the Canadian National Railway, but was later sold to Canadian Pacific Hotels, now Fairmont Hotels and Resorts...


  • STM headquarters
    Société de transport de Montréal
    The Société de transport de Montréal is a public transport agency that operates transit bus, and rapid transit services in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

     (in Place Bonaventure)
  • Le 1250 René-Lévesque Ouest
  • Édifice Gare Windsor
    Windsor Station (Montreal)
    Windsor Station is a former train station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formerly serving as the city's Canadian Pacific Railway Station.Windsor Station was the Canadian Pacific Railway's headquarters built between 1887 and 1889. The Romanesque Revival building was designed by New York architect...

     -
    former Canadian Pacific Railway
    Canadian Pacific Railway
    The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

     headquarters
  • Lucien-L'Allier train station
    Lucien-L'Allier (AMT)
    Lucien-L'Allier is the commuter rail terminal for the AMT Vaudreuil-Hudson, Blainville-Saint-Jerome, and Candiac lines in the Greater Montreal area in Quebec, Canada. Lucien-L'Allier is in Fare Zone 1. It is one of the two downtown terminals for Montreal commuter trains, the other being Gare...

     
    and Lucien-L'Allier metro station
    Lucien-L'Allier (Montreal Metro)
    Lucien-L'Allier is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the borough of Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Overview:...

     and points west
  • Square-Victoria metro station
    Square-Victoria (Montreal Metro)
    Square-Victoria is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal...

     and points north
  • McGill metro station
    McGill (Montreal Metro)
    McGill is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located downtown in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada . The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the metro...

     and points east and west


Other

  • Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
    Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
    The Cathedral-Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Montreal. It is the third largest church in Quebec after St. Joseph's Oratory and the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré east of Quebec City...

  • The Montréal Planetarium
    Montreal Planetarium
    The Montreal Planetarium is a public planetarium located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest surviving public planetarium in Canada. It is also Canada's largest, with a seating capacity of approximately 375.-History:The planetarium was opened in advance of Expo 67, located at 1000 Saint...

  • Sun Life Building
    Sun Life Building
    The Sun Life Building is a historic office building on Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal, Canada.-History and construction:...

  • Centre Sheraton
    Centre Sheraton
    Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel was completed in 1982 and stands at 118 metres or 386 feet with 38 floors. It was built by Le Group Arcorp.Le Centre Sheraton is located at 1201 René-Lévesque Boulevard West, next door to Tour CIBC at 1155 René-Lévesque Boulevard West.It hosted a meeting of G-20...

  • Tour CIBC
    Tour CIBC
    La Tour CIBC is a forty-five-storey skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec. With the communications antenna on the roof, the total height is . The International Style office tower was built by Peter Dickinson, Ross, Fish, Duschenes and Barrett and was the city's tallest building from 1962 to 1963...

  • Place du Canada
    Place du Canada
    Place du Canada is a large urban square in downtown Montreal.- Overview :At it is slightly larger than the adjacent Dorchester Square, with a more varied topography due to a downward slope towards De la Gauchetière Street...

  • Dorchester Square
    Dorchester Square
    Dorchester Square is a large urban square in downtown Montreal. Together with Place du Canada, the area is just over 21,000 m2 or 2.1 ha of manicured and protected urban parkland bordered by René Lévesque Boulevard to the south, Peel Street to the west, Metcalfe to the east and Dominion Square to...


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