De L'Église is a station on the Montreal Metro on the Green Line, located in the borough of Verdun. 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. ... Verdun is a borough of the City of Montreal, situated along the St. ... 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 Jean-Maurice Dubé, it was planned as a normal side-platform station. However, during the station's construction, a cave-in of the surrounding weak Utica shale formation made it necessary to build the station with a narrower profile. It is therefore built with stacked platforms, with the Honoré-Beaugrand platform above and Angrignon below, and both directions opening to the left instead of the usual right. There are two accesses, one in the centre and one at the western end of the station, with separate ticket halls. Shale Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. ...

The station is decorated with a series of circular motifs in ceramic tile on the lower levels and concrete bas-reliefs in the upper levels, by Claude Théberge.

Origin of the name

This station is named for av. de l'Église. The church in question is the Église Saint-Paul in the Côte-Saint-Paul district at the north end of the avenue. This roadway has existed since at least 1834, and became known under its present name some time after 1879. 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Connecting Bus Routes

Regular Routes

• 37 Jolicoeur
• 58 Wellington
• 61 Wellington

Night Routes

• 350 Verdun/LaSalle

Address of entrances

• Wellington entrance: 250, av. Galt, at rue Wellington
• De L'Église entrance: 133, av. de l'Église, at rue Ross

Nearby Points of Interest

• Centre Hospitalier Angrignon, Verdun pavillion
• Verdun Auditorium
• Parc Thérien
• Health Canada

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External Links

• Société de transport de Montréal (http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-m39.htm) - official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com (http://www.metrodemontreal.com/green/deleglise/) - photos, information, and trivia