Berri–UQAM station
central metro station of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Berri–UQAM station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Ville-Marie, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and is the system's central station. This station is served by the Green, Orange, and Yellow lines. It is located in the Quartier Latin.
Berri–UQAM is the 2nd deepest station in the network, and also the busiest station in the network, transfers not included. If transfers were included, the 13 million passengers number would rise to about 35–40 million a year.
History
The station opened as Berri–De Montigny with the opening of the Metro on October 14, 1966, serving the Green and Orange lines.
The station was the site of the inauguration of the Metro by Mayor of Montreal Jean Drapeau, president of the Commission de transport de Montréal Lucien L'Allier and Archbishop of Montreal Paul-Émile Léger. A plaque commemorating the inauguration is located in the mezzanine. The Yellow Line entered service on April 28, 1967, serving the Expo 67 site on Île Sainte-Hélène.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Berri–UQAM station” as central metro station of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as central metro station of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q827090. Authority coordinates are 45.515, -73.561. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966 and 1967.
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This entry incorporates text from “Berri–UQAM station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.