Charlevoix station (Montreal Metro)
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Charlevoix station (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. It is located in the district of Pointe-Saint-Charles. It opened on September 3, 1978, as part of the extension of the Green Line westward to Angrignon station.
Architecture and art
Designed by Ayotte et Bergeron, it was built as a stacked platform station, in order to reduce the width of the station owing to the weak Utica Shale in which it was built. The lower (Honoré-Beaugrand) platform is Script error: No such module "convert". below the surface, making this the deepest station in the network, as well as the lowest in altitude (the lower platform is below sea level).
The station has one ticket hall and one access. The long stairways to the platforms, built around a light shaft, are brightened by two stained-glass windows by Mario Merola and Pierre Osterrath.
Origin of the name
This station is named for rue Charlevoix. Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761) was a French Jesuit historian and explorer of New France.
Connecting bus routes
The buses at Charlevoix use its bus loop which is under an OMHM apartment building.
| style="background: #Template:Rcr; font-size:100%; color:#FFFFFF;"colspan="4"|Société de transport de Montréal | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Route | Connects to | Service times / notes |
| Template:Rint | Charlevoix | Template:Plainlist | Daily |
| Template:Rint | Wellington | Template:Plainlist | Daily
Some rush hour services start and end at this station |
Nearby points of interest
- Centre Saint-Charles
- St. Columba House
- Clinique communautaire de Pointe-Saint-Charles
- Carrefour d'éducation publique
- Parc du Canal-de-Lachine
- Maison Saint-Gabriel
References
External links
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- Charlevoix Station - official site
- Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com - photos, information, and trivia
- 2016 STM System Map
- 2016 Downtown System Map
- Metro Map
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