Parc station (Montreal)

The Canadian Pacific Railway built the Park Avenue station, which was designed by architect Colin Drewitt and opened in 1931.^[1] It was inaugurated in the presence of Camillien Houde, the mayor of Montreal at the time. Park Avenue station replaced the Mile End railway station, which was located near the corner of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Bernard Street.

In its time, all CPR trains headed toward Quebec City, Ottawa and the Laurentians, including Le Petit Train du Nord, travelled through Park Avenue Station.

The station's role as an important railway stop permitted the station to host many important figures. One such event occurred in 1939, when the station was the site of a royal visit by King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth, who were accompanied by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Park Avenue station was an important stop for railway passengers until the early 1950s. Following the closure of Place Viger in 1951, Park Avenue station suffered a swift decline in traffic. It was closed itself in 1984 when Via Rail Canada transferred the southern terminal of the Montreal-Quebec City (Sainte-Foy) via Trois-Rivières train service from Windsor Station to Montreal Central Station. The same year, the city of Montreal acquired the building and ceded part of the building to the Montreal Urban Community for the construction underground of the Montreal Metro's Parc station, which opened in 1987. In 1997, Exo's commuter rail station opened, using the name Jean-Talon; but this was later changed in 2000 to Parc in order to avoid confusion with the Jean-Talon Metro station.

The central portion of the building became an Indigo Books and Music store, which closed and was replaced by a Société des alcools du Québec store, which itself closed in 2010. In 2006, a Loblaws store was added to the north of the building, to form a wing with an underground passage directly from the metro as well as one housing one of the first underground parking to be built underneath a grocery store in Quebec. The store was rebranded first as a Provigo in 2014, then as a Maxi & Cie in 2022.

As of 2025, the central portion of the building houses a Joe Fresh outlet. The Montreal Metro's Parc station occupies the western end of the building. Adjacent is the separate Parc commuter rail station.

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Parc
General information
Location	7245, Hutchison Street, Montreal, Quebec H3N 2Y8 Canada
Coordinates	45°31′49″N 73°37′26″W
Operator	Société de transport de Montréal
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	STM bus Saint-Jérôme line
Construction
Depth	15.1 metres (49 feet 6 inches), 35th deepest
Accessible	No
Architect	Blouin, Blouin & Associés Colin M. Drewitt (Park Avenue Station)
Architectural style	Montreal Metro
Other information
Fare zone	ARTM: A[2]
History
Opened	15 June 1987
Passengers
2024[3][4]	2,448,565  9.65%
Rank	43 of 68
Services
Preceding station Montreal Metro Following station Acadie toward Snowdon Blue Line De Castelnau toward Saint-Michel
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Parc station serves the Blue Line of the Montreal Metro. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM).^[5]

The Metro station was built after the city purchased Jean-Talon station in 1984, and opened in 1987. The entrance was built in and under the building's far west end, with the entrance in the former men's smoking room. It is a normal side platform station. The platform level features a tabula scalata frieze by Huguette Desjardins, and the skylight at the foot of the stairs to the exit contains a sculpture called Métamorphose d'Icare by Claire Sarrasin, an homage to the local Greek community.

In 2022, the STM's Universal Accessibility Report noted that preliminary design work to make the station accessible was underway.^[6]

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Parc
General information
Location	300 Ogilvy Avenue Montreal, Quebec H3N 2Y4[7]
Operator	Exo (public transit)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Blue Line STM bus
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	None[7]
Cycle facilities	7 spaces[7]
Accessible	No
Architectural style	Exo
Other information
Fare zone	ARTM: A[2]
History
Opened	May 12, 1997
Passengers
2019[8]	863,500 (Exo)
Services
Preceding station Exo Following station Chabanel toward Saint-Jérôme Line 12 – Saint-Jérôme Montréal-Ouest toward Lucien-L'Allier
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The Exo commuter rail operates a station immediately adjacent to the historic building. Parc station is part of Exo's Saint-Jérôme line. The Exo station's platforms are built along the main line; the space between the old Jean-Talon railway station building and the railway line, where the original platforms were located, is now occupied by a Maxi & Cie.

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