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Square-Victoria is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Quartier International district of downtown Montreal, in the borough of Ville-Marie.

It was inaugurated on February 6, 1967, four months after most of the initial network, and was briefly the terminus of the orange line until Bonaventure station was opened a week later.

The metro station is a normal side-platform station; its central mezzanine is connected to a very long tunnel running along Beaver Hall Hill and under Victoria Square, giving access to its various exits.

Each of the station's exits is connected to another building or buildings via the underground city. The Belmont exit is connected to and located in the 1080 Beaver Hall Hill building; the Viger exit is likewise connected to and located in the Bell Tower/National Bank complex. The Saint Antoine exit is a link in the main part of the underground city, linking the ICAO building with the Centre CDP Capital, while the rotunda at the south end of the tunnel, leading to the Saint Jacques exit, links the Tour de la Bourse with the Centre de commerce mondiale.

The station was designed by Irving Sager. Two steel murals by Robert Savoie, entitled Kawari Kabuto, grace the walls of the great volume over the tunnel vaults; a mural in the pedestrian tunnel, by Jean-Paul Mousseau, has been temporarily removed. The southern rotunda contains a multimedia installation entitled Ars Natura, promoting Montreal's science museums.

The most famous artwork, however, is one of Hector Guimard's art nouveau entrance porticos from the Paris Métro. One of the few authentic installations on a metro station outside Paris, it was given in 1967 by the RATP (Régie autonome des transports parisiens) to commemorate the collaboration of French and Canadian engineers in building the metro. It is located within Victoria Square on the Saint Antoine entrance, one of only four open-air entrances on the network (the others are located at Place-Saint-Henri and Bonaventure stations). It was recently removed, completely restored, and reinstalled.

Contents 1 Origin of the name 2 Connecting bus routes 2.1 Regular routes 2.2 Night routes 3 Address of entrances 4 Nearby main intersections 5 Nearby points of interest 5.1 Connected via the underground city 5.2 Other 6 External links

This station is named for Victoria Square, which has existed since 1813; it was renamed for Queen Victoria on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to Montreal in 1860.

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
36 Monk	Map	Schedule
61 Wellington	Map	Schedule
74 Bridge (One block west from Beaver Hall Hill on University Avenue)	Map	Schedule
75 De la Commune	Map	Schedule
168 Cité-du-Havre	Map	Schedule
420 Express Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	Map	Schedule

Route Name	Route Map	Schedule
358 Sainte-Catherine (one block north on boul. René Lévesque ouest)	Map	Schedule

• Belmont entrance: 605, Belmont St., at Beaver Hall Hill
• Viger entrance: 601, Viger Ave., at Beaver Hall Hill
• Saint Antoine entrance: 601, Saint Antoine St. W., at Square-Victoria St. (within Victoria Square)
• Saint Jacques entrance: 605, Saint Jacques Street W., at Square-Victoria Street (within Victoria Square)
• Beaver Hall Hill entrance: Beaver Hall Hill between Viger Ave. and Saint Antoine Street (ICAO Building)

• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• Tour Bell
• Tour Banque Nationale
• 1080 Beaver Hall Hill
• Place de la Cité internationale - Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec
• Centre de commerce mondial de Montréal (Edifice Canada Steamship Lines, Hôtel Inter-Continental)
• Tour de la Bourse (Bourse de Montréal, Place Victoria, Hôtel Delta Centre-Ville)
• Bonaventure metro station and points west
• Place-d'Armes metro station and points east

• Quartier international de Montréal
• Saint Patrick's Basilica
• Victoria Square
• Place Félix-Martin - American Consulate-General
• Le Curateur public du Québec
• TD Canada Trust Building
• Royal Bank Building

• Société de transport de Montréal - official site
• Montreal by Metro, metrodemontreal.com - photos, information, and trivia

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