Place-d'Armes (Montreal Metro)

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Place-d'Armes

Inaugurated	14 October 1966
Line	Orange Line
Architect	J. Warunkiewicz
Platform Depth	4.6 metres
Rank	60th deepest
Traffic	4,273,490 entrances in 2002
Rank	16th busiest
Interstation Distance	356.60 metres to Square-Victoria 370.60 metres to Champ-de-Mars

Place-d'Armes is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in Old Montreal in the borough of Ville-Marie.

It was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the metro. It was briefly the terminus of the orange line until Square-Victoria (Montreal Metro) station opened four months later, quickly followed by Bonaventure station, the planned terminus.

The metro station, designed by J. Warunkiewicz, is a normal side-platform station, built in open-cut due to the presence of weak Utica shale in the surrounding rock. Its mezzanine, with fare barriers at either end, is located directly under the Palais des congrès de Montréal; one end gives direct access to the Palais, while the other opens outside.

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

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for the place d'Armes, a short distance to the south. It is the third square in Montreal to have this name, which is the common French name for the rallying place for a fort's defenders. Formerly a central hub of Montreal's streetcar system, it contains a statue of Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve.