Laurier (Montreal Metro)

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Laurier

Inaugurated	14 October 1966
Line	Orange Line
Architect	Jean P. Pothier
Platform Depth	10.7 metres
Rank	48th deepest
Traffic	3,878,578 entrances in 2002
Rank	20th busiest
Interstation Distance	499.60 metres to Mont-Royal 746.10 metres to Rosemont

Laurier is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in Mile End neighbourhood of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. It was inaugurated on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the metro.

The metro station, designed by Jean P. Pothier, is a normal side-platform station, built in tunnel. It has a mezzanine and an entrance at either end, the southern one incorporating a bus marquee, and the northern one including an automatic ticket barrier.

1 Origin of the name
- 1.1 Regular routes
- 1.2 Night routes
2 Address of entrances
3 Nearby points of interest
4 External links

[edit] Origin of the name

This station is named for Laurier Avenue, named for Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841–1919), the first French-Canadian Prime Minister of Canada (1896–1911).

[]==Connecting bus routes==

[edit] Regular routes

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
14 Amherst	Map	Schedule
27 Boul. Saint-Joseph	Map	Schedule
30 Saint-Denis/Saint-Hubert	Map	Schedule
46 Casgrain	Map	Schedule
47 Masson	Map	Schedule
51 Bd Édouard-Montpetit	Map	Schedule