Fabre station is a

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station in

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, Canada.Fabre Metro Station
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(STM) and served by the Blue Line. It is located in the

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neighbourhood.

Overview

It is a normal

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

station with two entrances: one on rue Fabre and another on avenue Papineau. The brightly coloured murals and continuous handrail were designed by artist

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Origin of name

Fabre is named for the nearby rue Fabre. The street name honours Monseigneur

Édouard-Charles Fabre Édouard-Charles Fabre (February 28, 1827 – December 30, 1896) was Archbishop of Montreal in 1886 and of Sherbrooke and Saint-Hyacinthe in 1887. Fabre was the eldest of 11 children in an important Montreal business family. Despite the effor ...

(1827–1896), Montreal's first archbishop (1886).

Connecting bus routes

References

Nearby points of interest

Entrances 1737 Rue Jean Talon 1480 Rue Jean Talon * Hôpital Jean-Talon

External links

Fabre station on STM websiteMontreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com

2011 STM System Map

Blue Line (Montreal Metro) Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Railway stations in Canada opened in 1986 Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension {{Quebec-railstation-stub