ORIGIN OF THE NAME

Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges. The name Côte-des-Neiges traces its origin back to 1698, when the first road was built to this area and reached a stream running down the snowy north side of Mount Royal. The stream was given the name ruisseau des Neiges and became the basis of the lots established by the surveyor Gédéon de Catalogne. The côte of Notre-Dame des Neiges (Our Lady of the Snows) was created as the Village of Côte-des-Neiges in 1862, divided in two in 1889, and annexed by the City of Montreal in 1908 and 1910. The original road, later the village's main street, retains the name chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges.

PLATFORM DEPTH 17,6 m deep (24th deepest station)

TRAFFIC 3 524 127 entrances in 2006 (26th busiest station)

INTERSTATION DISTANCE

To Snowdon: To Université-de-Montréal: 959,60 metres 764,60 metres

TRIVIA

All the grey granite walls of the station, as well as the imposing brown granite main kiosk, were originally supposed to be ...pink! Fortunately, the colour was changed at the last minute.