Du Collège is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, located in the borough of Saint-Laurent. A metro station is a railway 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 Orange (Line 2) line is one of the four lines of the Montreal metro. ... Saint-Laurent is one of the largest boroughs of the city of Montreal. ...

Inaugurated on January 9, 1984, it took over from Plamondon station as the western terminus of the line, and so remained until the construction of Côte-Vertu station in 1986. January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Plamondon is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line. ... Côte-Vertu is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, located in the borough of Saint-Laurent. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The station is a normal side-platform station with an entrance at either end. The southern entrance is located in a bus loop.

The station was designed by Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand, and contains several artworks. The northern entrance contains four stained-glass windows, one by Lyse Charland Favretti on the theme of education and three by Pierre Osterrath on the borough of Saint-Laurent, its agricultural past, and its future. The southern entrance contains another stained-glass window by Favretti representing the borough's aeronautics industry, as well as an abstract relief in brick by Aurelio Sandonato. The station's best-known architectural feature, however, is an Ionic column in the northern mezzanine. Architects first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce Paris, 1758 (Plate XX) The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and...

Origin of the name

This station is named for the rue du Collège, whose name commemorates the nearby Collège Saint-Laurent, inaugurated in 1847 and turned into a Cégep in 1974. Collège Saint-Laurent was a college in the former city of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, founded in 1847. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... CÉGEP (Collège denseignement général et professionnel - College of General and Vocational Education, pronounced say-jep [fr/en] or see-jip [en]) is a type of educational institution in Quebec. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

Connecting Bus Routes

Regular Routes

• 17 Décarie
• 72 Alfred-Nobel
• 76 McArthur
• 117 O'Brien
• 128 Ville-Saint-Laurent
• 175 Griffith/Saint-François
• 202 Dawson
• 214 Des Sources
• 460 Métropolitaine

Night Routes

• 371 Décarie

Address of entrances

• Du Collège entrance: 1490, rue du Collège, at boul. Décarie
• Cartier entrance: 450, rue Ouimet, at rue Cartier

Nearby Points of Interest

• Vanier College
• Cégep Saint-Laurent
• CLSC Saint-Laurent
• Saint-Laurent borough office

Vanier College is a Collège denseignement général et professionnel (CEGEP) (College of General and Vocational Education) located in the Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada, founded in 1970, as the second English-language CEGEP in Quebec. ... CEGEP Saint-Laurent is located in the former city of Saint-Laurent, Quebec. ...

External Links

• Société de transport de Montréal (http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-m54.htm)
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com (http://www.metrodemontreal.com/orange/ducollege/)