Frontenac station

Frontenac station ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<ref>Frontenac Montreal Metro Station</ref> It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. It is located at 2570 Ontario Street East in the Sainte-Marie neighbourhood, part of the Centre-Sud.

Overview

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The area around the Frontenac station

Although part of the original network of the Metro, it opened two months after the rest of the system, on December 19, 1966. It served as the eastern terminus of the Green Line until the extension to Honoré-Beaugrand was completed in 1976. It is also the only station on the original Green Line not located under De Maisonneuve Boulevard.

Designed by Robillard, Jetté et Beaudoin, it is a normal side platform station built in tunnel. A transept provides access via several long escalators to the entrance, which was recently rebuilt according to a design by Christian Bisson.

Renovations occurred in November–December 2005, when the station was closed during weekends.

Origin of the name

Frontenac station takes its name from nearby Rue Frontenac, which in turn is named for Louis de Buade, sieur de Frontenac et de Palluau. The godson of King Louis XIII, he was governor-general of New France between 1672 and his death in 1698. Frontenac is famous for repelling the attack of Sir William Phips, saying, "I will not respond to your general but through the mouths of my cannons and with gunfire."

Connecting bus routes

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No.	Route	Connects to	Service times / notes
Template:Rint	Hochelaga	Template:Plainlist	Daily
Template:Rint	D'Iberville	Template:Plainlist	Daily
Template:Rint	Ontario	Template:Plainlist	Daily
Template:Rint	Sherbrooke	Template:Plainlist	Daily
Template:Rint	Verdun / LaSalle	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	Lacordaire / Maurice-Duplessis	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	Pie-IX	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	Lachine / YUL Aéroport / Des Sources	Template:Plainlist	Night service Connects to Montréal-Trudeau International Airport
Template:Rint	Saint-Michel	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	René-Lévesque	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	Des Pins	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	Hochelaga / Notre-Dame	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	Sherbrooke / Joseph-Renaud	Template:Plainlist	Night service
Template:Rint	Avenue-Du-Mont-Royal	Template:Plainlist	Night service

Nearby points of interest

• Place Frontenac
• Maison de la culture et bibliothèque Frontenac
• Éco-quartier de Sainte-Marie
• Parc Médéric-Martin
• Centre Jean-Claude Malépart
• Bain Mathieu - Société pour promouvoir les arts gigantesques (SPAG)
• Maison Norman Bethune

References

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External links

• Frontenac Station - official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com - photos, information, and trivia
• Metro Map

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