Brief history of public transit tickets in Montréal

First ticket of the Montreal City Passenger Railway Company (1861)

First ticket of the Montreal Street Railway Company (1886)

Ticket from the Montreal Park & Island Railway Company, a suburban network managed by the Montreal Street Railway Company from 1901

Ticket from the Montreal Terminal Railway Company, a suburban network managed by the Montreal Street Railway Company from 1907

  

  

  

  

Examples of receipts issued on certain lines by the Montreal Park & Island Railway Company and the Montreal Tramways Company (1900's)

Montreal Street Railway Company tickets with advertising on the back (early 1900's)

Complimentary ticket from the Montreal Street Railway Company (early 1900's)

Last ticket of the Montreal Street Railway Company (1911)

First ticket of the Montreal Tramways Company (1918)

Montreal Tramways Company ticket for constables (around 1920)

Montreal Tramways Company tickets for its employees' annual picnic (1930)

Montreal Tramways Company ticket for the Longueuil bus service (1931)

Montreal Tramways Company ticket to be used on the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Saint-Hubert or Outremont bus lines when paired with a valid transfer (1930's)

Montreal Tramways Company tickets to be used in three consecutive zones (1948)

Montreal Transportation Commission ticket for its employees, printed before the municipalisation of the Montreal Tramways Company in June 1951

  

Montreal Transportation Commission ticket issued for the centennial of public transit in Montréal (front and back, 1961)

  

First ticket of the Montreal Transportation Commission with a magnetic strip that could be read by the métro turnstiles (front and back, 1966)

MUCTC ticket for the transportation of school children (1972)

MUCTC ticket for the Deux-Montagnes commuter rail line (1982)

MUCTC ticket for the Rigaud commuter rail line (1982)

STCUM promotion ticket (1992)

STM ticket valid in the métro stations on Laval territory (2007)

Last STM ticket before full implementation of the OPUS card (2009)

Ticket book from the Montreal Tramways Company (1940's)

Ticket book from the Montreal Transportation Commission (1950's)

Ticket book from the Montreal Transportation Commission (1960's)

Ticket book from the MUCTC (1970's)

Ticket book from the MUCTC (1980's)

Ticket book from the STCUM (1990's)

First regular-fare monthly pass (1980)

First reduced-fare monthly pass (1980)

First reduced-fare monthly pass with a color background (1981)

First monthly pass with a magnetic strip (1982)

First monthly pass valid on commuter trains (1982)

First reduced-fare monthly pass with a color background other than yellow (1984)

First regular-fare monthly pass with a color background (1984)

First monthly pass valid on the STRSM network (1986)

New design of the regular-fare monthly pass (1986)

New design of the reduced-fare monthly pass (1986)

New design of the regular-fare monthly pass (1988)

New design of the reduced-fare monthly pass (1988)

New design of the reduced-fare monthly pass (1989)

First regional monthly pass (1990)

New design of the monthly pass (1992)

New design of the monthly pass (1995)

The magnetic strip goes to the back of the monthly pass (2001)

New design of the monthly pass (2001)

First monthly pass with advertising on the front (2001)

Last monthly pass (2009)

First weekly pass (1998)

Last weekly pass (2009)

  

First transfer model of 1895 (front and back)

Transfer model of 1897

Transfer model of 1905

  

Transfer model of 1911 (green background in the morning and white background in the afternoon)

  

Montreal Park & Island Railway Company transfers (1918)

     

Transfer model used from 1923 to 1967

First transfer model issued in buses for use in the métro (1966)

Second transfer model issued in buses for use in the métro (1970's)

First transfer model issued in the métro for use in buses (1966)

     

Transfer of different colors used from 1969 to the end of the 1970's

Emergency transfer (1970's)

Transfer model used from the end of the 1970's

  

Transfers issued in the MUCTC commuter trains (1980's)

     

Special transfers issued in the 1980's and 1990's

Transfer issued on August 31, 2009, last day before full implementation of the OPUS card

  

Ticket issued by the Montreal Transportation Commission during the first season of its Promenade tourist service (front and back, 1964)

MUCTC ticket for its Montréalités tourist service (1970)

  

MUCTC tickets for its Promenade tourist service (1972 and 1975)

  

Special pass issued by the MUCTC for the visit of Pope John Paul II in Montréal (front and back, 1984)

Congress card issued by the STCUM from 1987

Tourist card issued by the STCUM from 1994

Event card issued by the STM from 2007

OPUS card (2008)

Occasional card (2009)

Event card (2010)

Three-day card issued for the Canadian Grand Prix (2010)

One-day card issued for the visit of U2 (2011)

CAMPUS card (2012)

First model of the new STM transfer (2008)

Second model of the new STM transfer (2009)

Third model of the new STM transfer (2010)

Special transfer issued for Earth Day (2010)