Bois-Franc station

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]

Bois-Franc
Bois-Franc station platforms before reconstruction
General information
Location	54–65 Henri Bourassa Blvd. West[1] Montreal, Quebec Canada
Coordinates	45°31′20″N 73°42′43″W
Operated by	Canadian Northern Railway (1918–1923) Canadian National Railway (1923–1996) Agence métropolitaine de transport (1996–2017) Réseau de transport métropolitain (2017–2020)
Line(s)	REM main line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Bus stands	8[2]
Connections	STM bus Société de transport de Laval
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	689 spaces[3]
Bicycle facilities	120 rack spaces[4]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	ARTM: A[5]
Website	rem.info/en/stations/bois-franc
History
Opened	1918 (1918)
Closed	December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31)
Rebuilt	October 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

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

Name origin

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

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

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

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

Société de transport de Montréal
No.	Route	Connects to	Service times / notes
64	Grenet	Côte-Vertu	Daily
164	Dudemaine	Bois-de-Boulogne Henri-Bourassa	Daily
170	Keller	Côte-Vertu	Daily
171	Henri-Bourassa	Côte-Vertu Montpellier Bois-de-Boulogne Henri-Bourassa	Daily Certain rush hour departures start or end at Bois-Franc station
215	Henri-Bourassa	Côte-Vertu Terminus Fairview	Daily
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
902 ♿︎	Métro Côte-Vertu - Terminus Le Carrefour	Côte-Vertu Terminus Le Carrefour	Weekdays only

See also

• Montreal Metro future projects
• Orange Line west branch extension