Canora station is a future station on the

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(REM), expected to open in October 2025. It is located in the Glenmount neighbourhood of

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, Quebec, Canada, just east of the Town of Mount Royal. The platforms are located northwest of the west portal of the

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. Until May 2020, Canora was a

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station on

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and

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lines.

History

The station is located at 7300 Canora Road, immediately northwest of

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. From the opening of the Deux-Montagnes Line in 1918 by the

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until the modernization of the line, which took place between 1993 and 1995, the station was called Portal Heights because of its location at the northwest end of the

. At the reopening, the station was renamed Canora, a

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of Canadian Northern Railway (CaNoRa), in tribute to the line's founder. Since opening, the station has been valued by the residents of not only the town of Mont-Royal, but also by those of the

Côte-des-Neiges Côte-des-Neiges (, ) is a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at the geographic centre of the Island of Montreal on the western slope of Mount Royal and is part of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. His ...

borough, for its fast connection with downtown via the tunnel. As part of the

(REM) project to convert the Deux-Montagnes line to rapid-transit operation, a connecting station was to be built on the

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adjacent to Canora across Rue Jean-Talon. Starting in May 2018, due to the four year process of being converted to light rapid transit operation, only one of the station's two platforms was being used for travel in both directions; the same was true for its neighbouring outbound station, Mont-Royal. The station was fully closed on May 11, 2020, in order to be converted into a REM station. It was slated to reopen in 2024, then it was later pushed back on October 2025. /

Connecting bus routes

References

{{REM navbox Future Réseau express métropolitain railway stations Former Exo commuter rail stations Railway stations in Montreal Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Railway stations in Canada opened in 1918 Railway stations in Canada closed in 2020