Charlevoix is a station on the Montreal Metro on the Green Line, located in the district of Pointe-St.-Charles in the borough of Sud-Ouest. It was inaugurated on September 3, 1978, as part of the extension of the Green Line westward to Angrignon. A metro station is a train station for a metro. ... Place-Saint-Henri station The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation for the city of Montreal and was the second metro system to be built in Canada, opening 12 years after the Toronto subway. ... The Green (Line 1) line is one of the four lines of the Montreal metro. ... Le Sud-Ouest is a borough of Montreal, Quebec. ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Angrignon Angrignon is a metro station in Montreal, Québec. ...

Designed by Ayotte et Bergeron, it was built as a stacked platform station, in order to reduce the width of the station owing to the weak Utica shale in which it was built. The lower (Honoré-Beaugrand) platform is 29,6m below the surface, making this the deepest station in the network, as well as the lowest in altitude (the lower platform is below sea level). Shale Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ...

The station has one ticket hall and one access. The long stairways to the platforms, built around a light shaft, are brightened by two stained-glass windows by Mario Merola and Pierre Osterrath.

Origin of the name

This station is named for rue Charlevoix. François-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1687) was a French Jesuit historian and explorer of New France. Events March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in England May 6 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. ... Events March 19 - The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... New France (French: la Nouvelle-France) describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763. ...

Connecting Bus Routes

Regular Routes

• 57 Pointe-Saint-Charles
• 101 Saint-Patrick
• 107 Verdun

Night Routes

• 350 Verdun/LaSalle

Address of entrances

• 2600, rue Centre, at rue Charlevoix

Nearby Points of Interest

• Centre Saint-Charles
• St. Columba House
• Clinique communautaire de Pointe-Saint-Charles
• Carrefour d'éducation publique
• Parc du Canal-de-Lachine

The Lachine Canal in 1920 The Lachine Canal is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, through the boroughs of Lachine on land originally granted by the King of France to the Sulpician Order. ...

External Links

• Société de transport de Montréal (http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-m37.htm) - official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com (http://www.metrodemontreal.com/green/charlevoix/) - photos, information, and trivia