Villa-Maria (Montreal Metro)

Villa-Maria is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, located in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. It was inaugurated on September 7, 1981.

The station is a normal side-platform station, and has an entrance at its north end. The entrance is located in a bus loop.

The station was designed by André Léonard and contains mural sculptures by the architect.

Origin of name

Villa-Maria station takes its name from the nearby Villa Maria school, which in turn takes its name from the Latin form of "Ville-Marie", the former name of Montreal.

The surrounding lands were once owned by the Decarie family. The building was sold as a residence for monks in 1804 and, as a result, the land became known as the Monklands. Eventually the building was sold as a residence for the Governors-Generals of Canada. (Lord Metcalfe, Earl Cathcart, and Lord Elgin all resided on the Monklands.)

The property became a country hotel for five years, after which time it was purchased by the nuns of Congregation-de-Notre-Dame, who turned it into a private girls school which they named Villa Maria. The metro station was built at the foot of the Villa Maria property.

Connecting Bus Routes

Regular Routes

24 Sherbrooke [1]

• Sherbrooke Street
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• McGill University
• McCord Museum
• Lafontaine Park

103 Monkland [2]

• Monkland Village
• Cavendish Mall

162 Westminster [3]

• Monkland Village
• Concordia University's Loyola Campus
• Loyola High School
• Montreal-Ouest train station

Night Routes

• None

Address of station entrance

• 4331, boul. Décarie, at av. Monkland

Nearby Points of Interest

• overlooking Decarie Autoroute
• Villa-Maria Girls School
• Marymount Academy
• The Monkland Village
• Mackay Centre for Disabled Children

External Links

• Société de transport de Montréal
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com