Du Collège is a
station on
Orange Line of the
Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the
Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is located in the borough of
Saint-Laurent in
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada .
Opened on January 9, 1984, it replaced
Plamondon station as the western terminus of the line, and so remained until the construction of
Côte-Vertu station in 1986.
Overview
The station is a normal
side platform station with an entrance at either end. The southern entrance is located in a bus loop.
The station was designed by Gilles S. Bonnetto and Jacques Garand, and contains several
artworks. The northern entrance contains four
stained-glass windows, one by
Lyse Charland Favretti on the theme of
education and three by
Pierre Osterrath on the borough of Saint-Laurent, its agricultural past, and its future. The southern entrance contains another stained-glass window by Favretti representing the borough's aeronautics industry, as well as an abstract
relief in
brick by
Aurelio Sandonato. The station's best-known architectural feature, however, is an
Ionic column in the northern
mezzanine.
Origin of the name
This station is named for the rue du Collège, whose name commemorates the nearby
Cégep de Saint-Laurent, inaugurated as a college in 1847 and turned into a
Cégep in 1974.
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