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Bois-Franc station

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Bois-Franc (French pronunciation: [bwafʁɑ̃]) is a Réseau express métropolitain (REM) interchange station in the Bois-Franc neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. REM service began at the station on 17 November 2025.[9]

Location2700 Marcel-Laurin Boulevard[1]
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Coordinates45°31′20″N 73°42′43″W
Operator
Platforms2 side platforms
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Bois-Franc
Bois-Franc station as seen from the bus loop
General information
Location2700 Marcel-Laurin Boulevard[1]
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Coordinates45°31′20″N 73°42′43″W
Operator
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Bus stands8[2]
Connections
Construction
Structure type
At-grade
ParkingPark and ride icon 689 spaces[3]
Cycle facilities
120 rack spaces[4]
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeBFC
Fare zoneARTM: A[5]
Websiterem.info/en/travelling/stations/bois-franc
History
Opened1918 (1918)
ClosedDecember 31, 2020 (2020-12-31)
RebuiltNovember 17, 2025 (2025-11-17) (REM)[6]
Former names
  • Lazard (1918–1926)
  • Val-Royal (1926–1995)
Passengers
2019[7]737,900 (Exo)
Services
Preceding station REM Following station
Sunnybrooke Réseau express métropolitain Du Ruisseau
toward Brossard
Des Sources
Future services
Preceding station REM Following station
Marie-Curie
toward Airport
Réseau express métropolitain
(opens 2027)
Du Ruisseau
toward Brossard
Former services
Preceding station Exo Following station
Sunnybrooke Deux-Montagnes Du Ruisseau
toward Montreal
Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Services in 1943[8]
Ste. Genevieve
toward Lac Remi
MontrealLac Remi Mount Royal
toward Montreal
Ste. Genevieve
toward St. Eustache-sur-le-Lac or Hawkesbury
St. Eustache-sur-le-Lac services Vertu
toward Montreal
Track layout
to Des Sources
Airport Junction
(switched diamond)
to Sunnybrooke
Jonction de l'Ouest
 
2
1
to Du Ruisseau
Location
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It replaced a commuter rail station of the same name on the Deux-Montagnes line, which was closed when Exo service ended in 2020 in preparation for the construction of the REM. After the stations inbound of here were closed on May 11, 2020 so construction works could begin on the Mount Royal Tunnel, Bois-Franc served as the inbound terminus of a remnant of the line out to Deux-Montagnes, until finally being closed on December 31, 2020.

Location

The station is located at 5465 Henri Bourassa Boulevard West, between Marcel-Laurin Boulevard/Boulevard Laurentien (Route 117) and Grenet Street in Saint-Laurent on the border with Cartierville.[citation needed]

History

The original station was named Lazard[10] (likely for the Franco-American merchant bank Lazard Frères & Co. which underwrote the construction of the Mount Royal Tunnel on this rail line). In 1926, the station was renamed Val-Royal. After the modernization of the Deux-Montagnes Line, between 1993 and 1995, a new station named Bois-Franc was built; the original station was then demolished at the request of the Canadian National Railway and with the permission of Transport Canada on June 5, 1995.[11] The old station site is now a parking lot on the east side of Boulevard Marcel-Laurin.

Name origin

The name Bois-Franc (lit.'hardwood') dates back to 1717, when the Sulpician order, seigneurs of the Island of Montreal, created a concession or côte in this area, which became known as Côte Saint-Louis or Côte du Bois-Franc.[12]The name "Bois-Franc" referred to an extensive maple forest in the area, remnants of which make up the Bois-de-Liesse and Bois-de-Saraguay nature parks.[13][14] In keeping with the practice in other côtes, the road serving the area took the name of the côte, Chemin du Bois-Franc.[12]

In 1911, an airport opened in the area, known as Bois-Franc Field, later Cartierville Airport. It was decommissioned in 1988 and a residential development, also called Bois-Franc, was built in its place, opening in 1993, shortly before the commuter train station was rebuilt.[15]

Cartierville branch and station

A single-track electrified (2400 V DC) branch to Cartierville, a relic of when the line terminated there in Canadian Northern Railway days, left the line at (then) Val-Royal station. When the line was run by Canadian National, only one rush-hour trip was scheduled in each direction. It was abandoned in the early 1980s when STM predecessor STCUM took over operations of the Deux-Montagnes line. The Cartierville station was located at the corner of Gouin West and Laurentian boulevards.[16] The Cartierville Station was to have been the terminus of Line 3 (Red) of the Montreal Metro.

Proposed Metro extension

Proposals to extend the Orange Line of the Metro to Bois-Franc have been considered since the late 1970s.[17][18] Following the construction of a Metro garage beyond Côte-Vertu station in the 2010s, only 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) of tunnelling is required to extend the line to interchange with the REM. As of 2022, studies are underway on the potential of an extension to Bois-Franc.[19]

Connecting bus routes

More information Société de transport de Montréal, No. ...
Société de transport de Montréal
No. Route Connects to Service times / notes
List of STM bus routes  64  Grenet Daily
List of STM bus routes  69  Henri-Bourassa Daily
List of STM bus routes  127  Alexis-Nihon Daily
List of STM bus routes  164  Dudemaine Daily
List of STM bus routes  170  Keller Daily
List of STM bus routes  215  Henri-Bourassa / Brunswick Daily
 522  REM Bois-Franc / Du Collège Used in case of a service disruption on the REM
 524  REM Anse-à-l'Orme / Kirkland / Fairview-Pointe-Claire / Des Sources / Bois-Franc Used in case of a service disruption on the REM
 527  REM Côte-de-Liesse / Montpellier / Du Ruisseau / Bois-Franc Used in case of a service disruption on the REM
List of STM bus routes  TA ♿︎  STM Transport adapté
Société de transport de Laval
No. Route Connects to Service times / notes
  144  Métro Côte-Vertu - Sainte-Dorothée Côte-Vertu Daily
  151  Métro Côte-Vertu - Sainte-Rose Côte-Vertu Daily
  244  Station Bois-Franc - Sainte-Dorothée Weekdays, peak only
  251  Station Bois-Franc - Sainte-Rose Weekdays, peak only
  255  Station Bois-Franc - Laval-Ouest Daily, weekdays early mornings and late evenings only
 713  Métro Côte-Vertu - Sainte-Dorothée Weekdays only
 715  REM Deux-Montagnes / Bois-Franc Used in case of a service disruption on the REM
  TA ♿︎  STL Transport adapté
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