Saint Catherine Street

This article is about the major shopping street in downtown Montreal. For the street on the north side of Mount Royal, see Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road. For other streets of this name, see Rue Sainte-Catherine (disambiguation).

Sainte-Catherine Street
Sainte-Catherine Street, Downtown Montreal
Native namerue Sainte-Catherine (French)
Length11.2 km (7.0 mi)
LocationWestmount and Montreal
West endDe Maisonneuve Boulevard, Westmount
Major
junctions		 R-112
East endNotre-Dame Street, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
A general view of Sainte-Catherine.

Sainte-Catherine Street (French: rue Sainte-Catherine [ʁy sɛ̃t katʁin]) (11.2 km or 7.0 mi) is the primary commercial artery of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It crosses the central business district from west to east, beginning at the corner of Claremont Avenue and de Maisonneuve Boulevard in Westmount, and ending at the Grace Dart Extended Care Centre by Assomption metro station, where it folds back into Notre-Dame Street.[1] It also traverses Ville-Marie, passing just east of Viau in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. The street is 11.2 km long, and considered the backbone of Downtown Montreal.[2]

A series of interconnected office tower basements and shopping complexes line the street, parallel to the largest segments of Montreal's underground city. Educational institutions located on or near the street include Concordia University, McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Dawson College and LaSalle College.

Nine metro stations serve as access to Sainte-Catherine Street, whereby it passes through residential neighbourhoods, the Quartier des spectacles and the downtown core. It also offers ease of access to the Underground Pedestrian Network.[3]

  1. ^ "Grace Dart Extended Care Centre". Grace Dart Extended Care Centre. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ Linteau, Paul-André (2010). Sainte-Catherine street: at the heart of Montréal life. Lemery, Claude-Sylvie., Létourneau-Guillon, Geneviève., Pointe-à-Callière, musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal. Montréal: Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology ans History. ISBN 9782761927529. OCLC 706909723.
  3. ^ "Sainte-Catherine Street | Tourisme Montréal". www.mtl.org. Retrieved 2020-11-03.