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Villa-Maria is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line. It is located in the Westmount Adjacent area of the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, beside the Décarie Expressway trench.

For other uses, see Villa Maria.
For metro station in Lima, see Villa María station.
Villa-Maria
General information
Location4331, boul. Décarie
Montreal, Quebec H4A 3K4
Canada
Coordinates45°28′46″N 73°37′11″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Depth19.8 metres (65 feet), 14th deepest
Disabled accessPartially accessible
ArchitectAndré Léonard
Other information
Fare zoneARTM: A[1]
History
Opened7 September 1981
Passengers
2021[2][3]1,464,613  9.16%
Rank36 of 68
Services
Preceding station Montreal Metro Following station
Snowdon
toward Côte-Vertu
 Orange Line Vendôme
toward Montmorency

Overview


The station is a normal side platform station, and has an entrance at its south end. The entrance is located in a bus loop.

The station was designed by André Léonard and contains mural sculptures by the architect.[5]

In 2019, work began to make the station fully accessible. This work - which includes the installation of three elevators, as of September 29 2022, two elevators and pieces of artwork have been installed meaning a lot of work is done making Villa Maria station partially accessible and the work is due for completion by the end of 2022.[6]


Origin of name


Villa-Maria station takes its name from the nearby Villa Maria school, which in turn takes its name from the Latin House of Mary.

The surrounding lands were once owned by the Decarie family. The land was sold in 1795 to Sir James Monk and the Monk residence built in 1804 in the central section of the present-day school. In 1844, the building was leased to the Crown as a residence for the Governors-Generals of Canada. (Lord Metcalfe, Earl Cathcart, and Lord Elgin all resided on the Monklands.

The property became a country hotel for five years and was thenpurchased by the nuns of Congregation of Notre Dame in 1854. They turned it into a private girls' school, which they named Villa Maria. The metro station was built at the foot of the Villa Maria property.


Connecting bus routes


Société de transport de Montréal
Route
17 Décarie
24 Sherbrooke
63 Girouard
66 The Boulevard
102 Somerled
103 Monkland
138 Notre Dame De Grâce
162 Westminster
371 Décarie

Nearby points of interest



References


  1. "Fare Zones". Metropolitan Regional Transportation Authority. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  2. Société de transport de Montréal (2022-09-27). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2021 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2022.182.
  3. Société de transport de Montréal (2021-04-16). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2020 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2021.075.
  4. "Villa-Maria Metro Station". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
  5. "Villa-Maria (André Léonard)". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  6. "Villa-Maria". Société de transport de Montréal. Retrieved 2022-09-20.




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