Pie IX Bridge

Le Caron Bridge
Le Caron Bridge is currently the second easternmost bridge connecting Laval to the Island of Montreal.
Carries	6 lanes of Route 125
Crosses	Rivière des Prairies
Locale	Laval, Quebec and Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maintained by	Transports Québec
History
Opened	1937 (rebuilt 1967)
Statistics
Daily traffic	83,000 (2013)^[1]

Le Caron Bridge is a bridge in Quebec, spanning the Rivière des Prairies. It connects the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul area of Laval, on Île Jésus, and the borough of Montréal-Nord in Montreal, on the Island of Montreal. The bridge was part of Autoroute 25 until the construction of the new toll bridge for Autoroute 25. It is now part of Quebec Route 125.

Le Caron Bridge in 1948.

While the official name is Le Caron Bridge, after Joseph Le Caron, an early missionary to the Hurons;^[2] the bridge is most commonly called the Pie IX Bridge, after Pie-IX Boulevard. The Boulevard itself was named after Pope Pius IX (Pie is the French name for Pius).

Roads, bridges and tunnels in Montreal

North–south streets	Greene Avenue Atwater Avenue Côte-des-Neiges Road Guy Street Mackay Street Bishop Street Crescent Street Mountain Street Drummond Street Stanley Street Peel Street Metcalfe Street McTavish Street Mansfield Street McGill College Avenue Robert-Bourassa Boulevard/University Street McGill Street Park Avenue Jeanne-Mance Street Saint Urbain Street Saint Laurent Boulevard Saint Denis Street Berri Street Saint Hubert Street Christophe Colomb Avenue Papineau Avenue De Lorimier Avenue Saint Michel Boulevard Pie-IX Boulevard Langelier Boulevard

East–west streets	Gouin Boulevard Henri Bourassa Boulevard Jarry Street Jean Talon Street Beaubien Street Queen Mary Road Côte-Saint-Luc Road Laurier Avenue Saint Joseph Boulevard Mount Royal Avenue Pine Avenue Doctor Penfield Avenue Sherbrooke Street Ontario Street De Maisonneuve Boulevard Saint Catherine Street René Lévesque Boulevard De la Gauchetière Street Viger Avenue Saint Antoine Street Saint Jacques Street Notre-Dame Street Rue Saint-Paul Wellington Street Rue de la Commune

Expressways	10 (Bonaventure Expressway) 13 (Chomedey Expressway) 15 (Laurentides Expressway) 19 (Papineau Expressway) 20 25 (Louis-H-Lafontaine Expressway) 40 (Metropolitan Expressway) 520 (Côte-de-liesse Expressway) 720 (Ville-Marie Expressway) Decarie Interchange Turcot Interchange

Routes	Route 112 (Bridge & Mountain) Route 117 (Laurentian & Marcel Laurin) Route 125 (Pie-IX) Route 138 (Sherbrooke Street) Route 335 (St. Denis)

Bridges and tunnels	List of bridges to the Island of Montreal Champlain Bridge Charles de Gaulle Bridge Galipeault Bridge Honoré Mercier Bridge Jacques Cartier Bridge Île aux Tourtes Bridge Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge–Tunnel Louis Bisson Bridge Médéric Martin Bridge Olivier-Charbonneau Bridge Papineau-Leblanc Bridge Pie IX Bridge Le Gardeur Bridge Viau Bridge Victoria Bridge Tunnel de la mort

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References

↑ Bisson, Bruno. "Pont de l'A-25: ça roule pour le MTQ". La Presse. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
↑ Les Archives - Le Pont Pie-IX

Coordinates: 45°35′57″N 73°38′48.5″W / 45.59917°N 73.646806°W / 45.59917; -73.646806

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Pie IX Bridge

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