Angrignon Park

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About Angrignon Park

Angrignon Park
7503, boul. de la Vérendrye
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

A handsome 107-hectare slab of land in a low-profile corner of town, the name Angrignon is nonetheless one that thousands of Montrealers see daily because it’s the last stop westward on the Metro’s green line. It’s named after J.-B. Arthur Angrignon (1875-1948), city councillor for Côte Saint-Paul for many years.

The city began to acquire land for this park in 1926 and by 1944 a grand scheme was hatched to turn it into a zoo, but the project fizzled out. It remained the winter home for the animals from Lafontaine Park’s small Jardin des Merveilles zoo until 1989 when the city went out of the zoo business for good.


Angrignon Park is simply a nice stretch of green space with a 1.1-km-long pond in the middle. There are picnic tables, foot and cycle paths and a few playground areas along des Trinitaires. Angrignon Farm, operated by the Botanical Garden not far from the metro station, is a nice outing for kids. But the heart of the park was re-landscaped in 2000 with a light hand and the overall impression is one of gentle purposelessness, an idyllic refuge from the stresses of the city.

Although you never really get completely beyond the distant sound of traffic, what with busy de la Vérendrye and des Trinitaires bordering the park and a number of bus routes converging on the metro station, there are many tranquil corners here. And yet busy city-dwellers always know that in a few minutes they can be whirled away by a metro to their next appointment.


To get to Angrignon Park you need only stay on the metro's Green Line till the last stop, get out and walk around. The Angrignon Farm pages have detailed directions for access by car.

There are no shops and not many services in or close by the park, but north, across the tracks and Newman Blvd., is Carrefour Angrignon, a large mall.

-How to get to Angrignon-

From Montréal -
Take Highway 720 West or Highway 15 South toward the Champlain Bridge.
Take Exit 62: Verdun/boulevard de la Vérendrye.

From the West Island -
(Lachine, Dorval, Côte Sainte-Catherine)
Take Highway 20 East.
Take Exit 64: rue St-Jacques/boulevard Angrignon.
Continue to the traffic lights and turn right on boulevard Angrignon, which becomes boulevard des Trinitaires.
Continue to rue Lacroix.
Turn left into the parking lot for the farm and the Angrignon métro station.

From downtown -
(Montréal, Laval, NDG, Côte-Saint-Luc, Outremont, Westmount and Saint-Léonard).
Take Highway 15 South (Décarie Expressway) or Highway 20 West (Ville-Marie Expressway).
Take Exit 67: rue Notre-Dame/boul. Angrignon.
Continue to the traffic lights and turn left onto boulevard Angrignon, which becomes boulevard des Trinitaires.
Continue to rue Lacroix.
Turn right into the parking lot for the farm and the Angrignon métro station.

From the South Shore -
(Longueuil, Brossard, etc.)
Take the Champlain Bridge and continue onto Highway 20 West.
Take Exit 62: Verdun/boul. de la Vérendrye.