Bonaventure (Montreal Metro)

Bonaventure is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, located in the borough of Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal.

It was inaugurated 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 was opened in 1981.

Designed by Victor Prus, the metro station is a normal side-platform station, built cut-and-cover in order to provide a large space for the heavily trafficked mezzanine. As a key part of the underground city, the mezzanine has ticket barriers on either side, in order to allow pedestrians to pass from one end of the station to the other. Bridges over the rails 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; two additional accesses led directly to Place Bonaventure and Gare Centrale on one end, and the Château Champlain and Place du Canada on the other.

When 1000 de La Gauchetière was built directly above the station, additional accesses were added to the office tower and the Terminus Centre-Ville (metropolitan bus terminal for South Shore buses) within it, as well as a street entrance on the western side of the building on rue de la Cathédrale and improved access to Gare Centrale and Place Bonaventure.

The station is intermodal with the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT)'s commuter train lines, through its underground access to Gare Centrale, a station on the Montreal/Deux-Montagnes and Montreal/Mont-Saint-Hilaire lines.

1 Origin of the name
2 Connecting Bus Routes
3 Address of entrances
4 Nearby Points of Interest
- 4.1 Connected via the underground city
- 4.2 Other
5 External Links

Origin of the name

This station is named for Place Bonaventure, a major commercial complex containing businesses, the Hilton Hotel, and the Société de transport de Montréal's headquarters. This was named for the Gare Bonaventure, a former station on the Grand Trunk railway, which in turn was named for its location on Rue Saint-Bonaventure, now Rue Saint-Jacques. All derive their name from St. Bonaventure, a 13th-century Italian philosopher and mystic.

Connecting Bus Routes

Regular Routes

36 Monk
61 Wellington
74 Bridge
75 De la Commune
107 Verdun
168 Cité-du-Havre
420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Night Routes

none

Metropolitan Routes

Longueuil RTL: 5, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 59, 86, 87, 90, 91, 92, 93, 115, 132, 142, 150
AMT #90 – Express TCV
CIT Le Richelain
CIT Vallée-du-Richelieu
CIT Chambly-Richelieu-Carignan
CIT Haut-St-Laurent
CIT Roussillon
CIT Sud-Ouest
CIT Haut-Richelieu
OMIT Sainte-Julie

Address of entrances

Peel entrance: 1166, rue de La Gauchetière ouest, at rue Stanley
de la Cathédrale entrance: 955, rue de la Cathédrale, at rue de La Gauchetière (on the side of 1000 de La Gauchetière)