Gare Dorion
An 1887 Canadian Pacific train station - the oldest surviving station in the region - beside an active commuter stop.
60, rue de l'Église, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC
Photo: Mtlfiredude, CC0 1.0 (public domain)
History
Built in 1887 to designs by architects John William Hopkins and Edward Colis Hopkins, the station opened that August as part of the Canadian Pacific line between Montreal and Toronto, and became a Montreal-Vaudreuil commuter terminus in 1889. It was renamed Gare Dorion in 1985 and restored in 1984-85. The transit authority (now Exo) bought the building in 1998; since 1999 it has been leased to Arc-en-Ciel Vaudreuil-Soulanges, a local mental-health support organization, so it no longer serves as an active ticket office - trains now stop at an adjacent modern platform.
Why visit
It's described as the oldest still-standing train station in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region - a tangible piece of 19th-century railway architecture next to an active commuter line, with Exo's Vaudreuil-Hudson line still stopping here today.
Visiting information
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