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Future interchange railway station in Montreal, Canada

Bois-Franc (French pronunciation: [bwafʁɑ̃]) is a Réseau express métropolitain (REM) interchange station in the Bois-Franc neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. REM service began at the station on 17 November 2025.^[6]

It was formerly a commuter rail station on the Deux-Montagnes line until Exo ended service in 2020.

Bois-Franc takes its name from the nearby Bois-Franc residential development, itself named for the Chemin du Bois-Franc, the original name of the stretch of Boulevard Henri-Bourassa through this area, which had previously ended at the Laurentian Autoroute. Bois-Franc was also the original name of the nearby pioneer airstrip that later was known as Cartierville Airport, until its closing in the 1980s.

The original station was named Lazard^[9] (likely for the Franco-American merchant bank Lazard Frères & Co. which underwrote the construction of the Mount Royal Tunnel on this rail line). In 1926, the station was renamed Val-Royal. After the modernization of the Deux-Montagnes Line, between 1993 and 1995, a new station named Bois-Franc was built; the original station was then demolished at the request of the Canadian National Railway and with the permission of Transport Canada on June 5, 1995.^[10] The old station site is now a parking lot on the east side of Boulevard Marcel-Laurin.

The station is located at 5465 Henri Bourassa Boulevard West, between Marcel-Laurin Boulevard/Boulevard Laurentien (Route 117) and Grenet Street in Saint-Laurent on the border with Cartierville.^{[citation needed]}

A single-track electrified (2400 V DC) branch to Cartierville, a relic of when the line terminated there in Canadian Northern Railway days, left the line at (then) Val-Royal station. When the line was run by Canadian National, only one rush-hour trip was scheduled in each direction. It was abandoned in the early 1980s when STM predecessor STCUM took over operations of the Deux-Montagnes line. The Cartierville station was located at the corner of Gouin West and Laurentian boulevards.^[11] The Cartierville Station was to have been the terminus of Line 3 (Red) of the Montreal Metro.

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