ORIGIN OF THE NAME
The Hall building and McConnell/Library building, the main buildings of the Sir George Williams (downtown) campus of Concordia University Rue Guy. Étienne Guy, a surveyor, soldier, and representative of Montreal in the Lower Canada legislative assembly, donated the land on which rue Guy was built to the city in 1815.

Concordia University. Concordia University was created in August 1974 by the fusion of Sir George Williams University downtown with Loyola College in the west. Its name was taken from the motto of the city of Montreal, concordia salus (prosperity through concord).

Formerly called: Guy (until 1 January 1988)

 PLATFORM DEPTH
19,2 m deep
(16th deepest station)
 TRAFFIC
7 327 321 entrances in 2006
(4th busiest station)

 INTERSTATION DISTANCE
To Atwater:
To Peel:
681,54 metres
593,14 metres

 TRIVIA
Architectural rendering of this station:

Architectural rendering of Guy-Concordia metro

Some historical photographs:

Former Saint-Mathieu entrance Canopy over escalator
Before the construction of the CLSC Metro building, this was the Rue Saint-Mathieu entrance - a tiny building with wooden shingles!

 The stairwells were formerly topped with these overhead canopies, which were later removed because the wind from the trains made them dangerously unstable.
Former platform walls Metro symbol sculpture
This was the original cladding for the platform walls - a shallow zig-zag in blue and grey.

 This enigmatic detail, a meditation on the metro symbol, formerly existed on a wall near the rue Guy entrance.

Images hist-stmathieu.jpg, hist-canopy.jpg, and hist-wall.jpg courtesy STM archives. Used by permission.