Place-Saint-Henri station

Place-Saint-Henri is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line, located in the Saint-Henri area of the borough of Sud-Ouest .

It was inaugurated on April 28, 1980, as the western terminus of the first extension of the orange line. It thus took over from Bonaventure station as terminus, and remained so until the extension to Snowdon in 1981.

The metro station is a normal side-platform station, connected by long stairwells to a large mezzanine. The station has three accesses; one is a conventional access within a bus loop, while the other two are open-air staircases linked to an underground gallery connected to the mezzanine. These make Place-Saint-Henri one of the only three stations in Montreal to have uncovered accesses (with Bonaventure and Square-Victoria stations).

The station was designed by Julien Hébert and Jean-Louis Lalonde. It originally contained two artworks: a mural by Hébert in the mezzanine, entitled Bonheur d'Occasion , featuring the title of the famous book by Gabrielle Roy (in English called The Tin Flute), set in the neighbourhood; and a motorized mobile sculpture by Jacques de Tonnancour suspended in the mezzanine and over the platforms.

A statue of Jacques Cartier by Joseph-Arthur Vincent , created in 1896, was recently moved to the station and placed in a light shaft over the Côte-Vertu platform. It had formerly crowned a fountain in a nearby park, but was removed, moved to the station, and replaced with a copy after having crumbled due to exposure.

Origin of the name

This station is named for place Saint-Henri, a short street and public square between rue Saint-Jacques and rue Notre-Dame. The place and the district took their name from a chapel built in 1810 and placed under the protection of Saint Henry, possibly to commemorate Henri-Auguste Roux (1798-1831), superior of Saint-Sulpice Seminary.

Connecting Bus Routes

Regular Routes

• 17 Décarie
• 36 Monk
• 78 Laurendeau
• 191 Broadway/Provost

Night Routes

• 371 Décarie

Address of entrances

• Saint-Ferdinand entrance: 555, rue Saint-Ferdinand at rue Saint-Jacques
• Saint-Jacques Nord entrance: rue Saint-Jacques, between rue Saint-Ferdinand and place Saint-Henri
• Saint-Jacques Sud entrance: corner of rue Saint-Jacques and place Saint-Henri

Nearby Points of Interest

• École secondaire Saint-Henri - École des métiers du Sud-Ouest
• Piscine Saint-Henri
• Parc Saint-Henri
• CLSC Saint-Henri
• Parc Sir-Georges-Étienne-Cartier
• POPIR Comité Logement
• Institut technique Aviron
• Parc Louis-Cyr
• Théâtre Dôme
• Musée des ondes Emile-Berliner

Trivia

A number of scenes of the film Jésus de Montréal by Denys Arcand were shot in this station.

External Links

• Société de transport de Montréal - official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com - photos, information, and trivia