From Early Stories to Today · Drawing 40
The métro arrives
1966
Montréal's métro opened in 1966. Beneath the city, its trains carry passengers between stations, away from road traffic.
Look together
Where do people wait for the métro?
An idea to try
Line up three sheets of paper as stations. Your child invents a route with a departure, a stop and an arrival, then tells it using a pretend train.
For the adult reading along
A little more to discover
The Montréal métro opened on October 14, 1966. The STM places its opening within the development of public transport, after streetcars and buses. Métro trains run beneath the city, linking stations where people get on and off. The image shows people waiting on a platform, a simple moment in a shared journey.
Compare the métro with the book's electric streetcar. Both carry passengers, but their surroundings and routes through the city differ. A station is a stop along a journey, not necessarily its final destination. The drawing names no station and simplifies the vehicles of the time; it is not a network plan.
Sources and context
These links lead to other websites. Explore them with an adult. Source titles appear in their original language; some linked pages are in French.
Source review: 2026-09-12. Illustrations simplify places and scenes; they are not historical documents.