Canora (AMT)

For the VIA rail station in Canora, Saskatchewan, see Canora railway station.
Canora

Looking east towards the portal of the
Mount Royal Tunnel and Jean Talon Street
Location 7300 Canora Road,[1]
Montreal, Quebec
Coordinates 45°30′50″N 73°38′04″W / 45.51389°N 73.63444°W / 45.51389; -73.63444Coordinates: 45°30′50″N 73°38′04″W / 45.51389°N 73.63444°W / 45.51389; -73.63444
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections
  STM buses
Construction
Parking None[1]
Bicycle facilities 14 spaces[1]
Other information
Fare zone 1
History
Opened 1918
Electrified 25 kV AC 60 Hz catenary
Previous names Portal Heights
Traffic
Passengers (2014[2]) ERROR (AMT)
Services
Preceding station   AMT   Following station
Deux-Montagnes
Terminus
toward Mascouche
Mascouche

Canora is a commuter rail station on the AMT's Deux-Montagnes and Mascouche lines in the west end of the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, just east of Mount Royal. The platforms are located northwest of the west portal of the Mount Royal Tunnel.

Location of the station

History

The station is located at 7300, Canora Road, immediately northwest of Jean Talon Street.

The station takes its name from Canora Road, which in turn takes its name from the first operator of this line, the CAnadian NOrthern RAilway, which built the line and operated it for a short time before it was merged into Canadian National Railway.

From the opening of the Deux-Montagnes Line in 1918 until the modernization of the line, which took place between 1993 and 1995, the station was called Portal Heights because of its location at the northwest end of the Mount Royal Tunnel.

Today the station is valued by the residents of not only the town of Mont-Royal, but also by those of the Côte-des-Neiges borough, for its fast connection with the downtown Bonaventure station, traveling to which via the Tunnel usually takes about 5 minutes.

Under the Réseau électrique métropolitain proposal, which would convert the Deux-Montagnes line to rapid-transit operation, a connecting station would be built on the Saint-Jérôme line adjacent to Canora across Rue-Jean-Talon. [3]

Connecting bus routes

Société de transport de Montréal
No.[1] and Route Name Service Times Route Map Schedule
92 Jean-Talon Ouest All-Day Map Schedule
160 Barclay, Eastbound All-Day, Located one block south on Wilderton and Bates Map Schedule
372 Jean-Talon Overnight Map Schedule

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 AMT - Stations - Canora
  2. ↑ Ridership from Rapport annuel 2014 [Annual Report 2014] (PDF). amt.qc.ca (Report) (in French) (Montreal: Agence métropolitaine de transport [Metropolitan Transportation Agency]). ISBN 978-2-550-72933-4. Retrieved May 2015.
  3. ↑ Jason Magder (April 22, 2016). "Electric light-rail train network spearheaded by Caisse de dépôt to span Montreal by 2020". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved April 2016.

External links

Media related to Gare Canora at Wikimedia Commons

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