The Chateauguay and Northern Railway badly needed a Montreal terminal and so opened its Montreal station for passenger service on December 10, 1903.  The station was located on St. Catherine Street East, east of Frontenac street, between Marlborough (now Alphonse-D.-Roy) and Moreau streets.  In 1906 with the takeover by Canadian Northern Quebec Railway, it became the Montreal terminal of that railway, a subsidiary of the Canadian Northern Railway.

Some confusion naturally resulted in 1919 with the takeover of Canadian Northern Quebec by Canadian National Railways.  Canadian National already had service into other stations in Montreal and so to distinguish  them began to refer to the eastern terminal as St. Catherine Street East in public timetables. While this remained the case until the cessation of passenger service in 1945 (with the completion of the cross island line from Pointe-aux-Trembles), later employee timetables referred to the station as Moreau Street Station.  The Moreau Street moniker lived on for the freight-only operation that continued after 1945.

A 1925 plan of the station shows some stub-end tracks, two of which were used for passengers on either side of a central platform.

The station has been torn down and tracks have steadily been withdrawn to east of Viau Street. 

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Leduc, Michael (1994).  Montreal Island Railway Stations, CN & Constituent Companies.  Dollard des Ormeaux, QC:  Michael D. Leduc, Reg.

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Glenn F. Cartwright, August 7, 2001
Revision 5. Last revised 2006/07/10