Saint-Laurent station is a

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station in the borough of Ville-Marie in

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, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the

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(STM) and serves the Green Line. The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro.

Overview

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station, built in an

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under boul. de Maisonneuve. The station's volume contains its

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and ticket hall, connected to a single entrance. This is one of the few downtown stations not to have an entrance integrated into another building, and plans for the vacant lot around the station continually surface; the current plan is for a cultural centre, including a school of contemporary dance.Dance School
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at the west entrance

Architecture and art

The station contains non-figurative tiled murals by noted ceramicist

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Origin of the name

The station takes its name from

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(in French, ''boulevard Saint-Laurent''), a main thoroughfare of Montreal, opened and named by 1720 as the road joining Montreal to the village of Côte-Saint-Laurent, now a borough of Montreal. The latter was named for

Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. "Laurel wreath, laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the Persecution of Christians, perse ...

, probably by allusion to the

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. Saint Laurent Boulevard is considered the dividing line between eastern and western Montreal, and divides addresses between east and west.

Connecting bus routes

Nearby points of interest

* UQAM *

* Pavillon Ste-Catherine *

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* Just for Laughs Museum * Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI)

References

External links

Saint-Laurent Station - official siteMontreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com
- photos, information, and trivia
2011 STM System Map

2011 Downtown System Map

{{Authority control Green Line (Montreal Metro) Railway stations in Canada opened in 1966 Quartier des spectacles