Square-Victoria (Montreal Metro)

Hector Guimard's art nouveau entrance portico.

Square-Victoria is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, 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 côte du Beaver Hall and under square Victoria, 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 Côte du Beaver Hall building; the Viger exit is likewise connected to and located in the Tour Bell/Tour Banque Nationale 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 famous art nouveau entrance porticos from the Paris Metro. This is the only authentic one in the world 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 square Victoria 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

Origin of the name

This station is named for square Victoria, 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.

Connecting Bus Routes

Regular Routes

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

Night Routes

none

Address of entrances

Belmont entrance: 605, rue Belmont, at côte du Beaver Hall
Viger entrance: 601, av. Viger, at côte du Beaver Hall
Saint-Antoine entrance: 601, rue Saint-Antoine ouest, at rue du Square-Victoria (within square Victoria)
Saint-Jacques entrance: 605, rue Saint-Jacques ouest, at rue du Square-Victoria (within square Victoria)
Côte du Beaver Hall entrance: côte du Beaver Hall between av. Viger and rue Saint-Antoine (ICAO Building)

Nearby Points of Interest

Connected via the Underground City

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Tour Bell
Tour Banque Nationale
1080 Côte du Beaver Hall
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