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Bois-Franc station

Coordinates: 45°31′20″N 73°42′43″W / 45.522189267072086°N 73.71183189397712°W / 45.522189267072086; -73.71183189397712
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Bois-Franc
Bois-Franc station platforms before reconstruction
General information
Location54–65 Henri Bourassa Blvd. West[1]
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Coordinates45°31′20″N 73°42′43″W / 45.522189267072086°N 73.71183189397712°W / 45.522189267072086; -73.71183189397712
Operated by
Line(s)REM main line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Bus stands8[2]
Connections
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
ParkingPark and ride icon 689 spaces[3]
Bicycle facilities120 rack spaces[4]
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zoneARTM: A[5]
Websiterem.info/en/stations/bois-franc
History
Opened1918 (1918)
ClosedDecember 31, 2020 (2020-12-31)
RebuiltOctober 2025 (2025-10) (REM)[6]
Previous names
  • Lazard (1918–1926)
  • Val-Royal (1926–1995)
Passengers
2019[7]737,900 (Exo)
Future services
Preceding station REM Following station
Sunnybrooke
toward Deux-Montagnes
 Réseau express métropolitain Du Ruisseau
toward Brossard
Des Sources
toward Anse-à-l'Orme
Marie-Curie
toward Airport
Former services
Preceding station Exo Following station
Sunnybrooke
toward Deux-Montagnes
 Deux-Montagnes Du Ruisseau
toward Montreal
Preceding station Canadian National Railway Following station
Services in 1943[8]
Ste. Genevieve
toward Lac Remi
 Montreal – Lac Remi Mount Royal
toward Montreal
Ste. Genevieve
toward St. Eustache-sur-le-Lac or Hawkesbury
 St. Eustache-sur-le-Lac services Vertu
toward Montreal
Location
Map

Bois-Franc (French pronunciation: [bwafʁɑ̃]) is a future Réseau express métropolitain (REM) interchange station in the Bois-Franc neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. REM service is expected to begin at the station in October 2025.[9]

It was formerly a commuter rail station on the Deux-Montagnes line until Exo ended service in 2020.

Name origin

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Bois-Franc takes its name from the nearby Bois-Franc residential development, itself named for the Chemin du Bois-Franc, the original name of the stretch of Boulevard Henri-Bourassa through this area, which had previously ended at the Laurentian Autoroute. Bois-Franc was also the original name of the nearby pioneer airstrip that later was known as Cartierville Airport, until its closing in the 1980s.

History

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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.

Location

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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]

Cartierville branch and station

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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.[12] The Cartierville Station was to have been the terminus of Line 3 (Red) of the Montreal Metro.

Connecting bus routes

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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  164  Dudemaine
Daily
List of STM bus routes  170  Keller
Daily
List of STM bus routes  171  Henri-Bourassa
Daily

Certain rush hour departures start or end at Bois-Franc station

List of STM bus routes  215  Henri-Bourassa
Daily
Société de transport de Laval
No. Route Connects to Service times / notes
  144  Métro Côte-Vertu - Sainte-Dorothée
Daily
  151  Métro Côte-Vertu - Sainte-Rose
Daily
  902 ♿︎  Métro Côte-Vertu - Terminus Le Carrefour
Weekdays only

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Bois-Franc (RTM)
  2. ^ https://rem.info/fr/se-deplacer/stations-du-reseau/bois-franc
  3. ^ https://rem.info/fr/se-deplacer/stations-du-reseau/bois-franc
  4. ^ "Bois-Franc Station". REM. Retrieved 2023-08-02.
  5. ^ "Fare Zones". Metropolitan Regional Transportation Authority. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Les branches nord et ouest du REM en service dès octobre". 12 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025. / "North and west REM branches to begin carrying passengers in October". 13 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  7. ^ Exo (2020-06-17). Réponse à votre demande d'accès à l'information (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 2020-25.
  8. ^ "Canadian National Railways" (PDF). streamlinermemories. June 1943. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Les branches nord et ouest du REM en service dès octobre". 12 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025. / "North and west REM branches to begin carrying passengers in October". 13 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  10. ^ Walton, Mark (June 6, 2000). "The Mount Royal Tunnel Electrification". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012.
  11. ^ N/Réf. T6165/S7 & V/Réf. 5105-VAL-1
  12. ^ "Montreal-Cartierville-Deux-Montagnes schedule 1979 pages 3&4". Canadian National suburban Montreal public timetable, August 6, 1979. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2011.


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