Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Canadian stations)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Canadian stations) is a standard naming convention for transit, transport, and train stations in Canada, which brings Canada mostly in line with WP:UKSTATION and in general agreement with WP:USSTATION.

Note

• This page was created following a February–March 2016 discussion about Canadian railway station article naming at Talk:Hinton railway station (Alberta).
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Naming

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) states: "Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name." This means that sentence case will be used except when the title is a proper name.

Since a station is almost always named for its location, at a city, community, street or landmark, something will be required to distinguish the station from its namesake. Specific descriptors should be used for that disambiguation, in preference to cryptic system names and acronyms which have no worldwide usage. The TTC (disambiguation) page, for example, is what you get if you search for TTC. Common kinds of descriptive station suffixes are "railway station", "subway station", "metro station", "bus station", "LRT station", etc. Where a station does not fit with any common description, then a more generic suffix of simply "station" might be more suitable. If the place that the station is named for does not have an article, the descriptor should still be included as part of the title, to make it clear that the aricle is about a station. When disambiguation is required due to a conflicting name, append the name of the relevant province, city or system enclosed within parentheses.

Examples

Service	Current	Example	Proposed	Comment
Official Title	All first letters capitalised	Pacific Central Station Hamilton GO Centre	no change	proper name
Mainline railway station (Via Rail, CNR, CPR, etc.)	X railway station	Belleville railway station	no change	"railway station"
Vancouver West Coast Express	X railway station	Port Moody railway station	no change	CPR main railway line
Vancouver SkyTrain	X station	Burrard station	no change	generic "station"
Calgary CTrain	X (CTrain)	City Hall (CTrain)	X LRT station	generic LRT
Edmonton LRT	X LRT Station	Churchill LRT Station	X LRT station	lower case "s"
Waterloo Ion	under construction	none	X LRT station	generic LRT
GO Transit	X GO Station	Pickering GO Station	no change	proper name
Mississauga Transitway	X station	Cawthra station	no change	generic "station"
Toronto Transit Commission	Subway = X (TTC)	King (TTC)	X subway station	New! unchanged
	SRT = X (TTC)	McCowan (TTC)	X station	generic "station"
	LRT = X LRT station	Leaside LRT station	no change	generic LRT
Ottawa Transitway	X station	Bayshore station	no change	generic "station"
Ottawa O-Train	X station	Carling station	X LRT station	add specific LRT?
Montreal	AMT "gare" = X (AMT)	Sauvé (AMT)	X railway station	former CNR and CPR lines
	AMT bus stations	Terminus Henri-Bourassa	no change	proper name
	X (Montreal Metro)	Sauvé (Montreal Metro) Henri-Bourassa (Montreal Metro)	X metro station	New! unchanged
Use parenthetical disambiguation with the name of the appropriate province, city or system appended	Town railway station (Province) Proper Name (City) X station (System)	Hinton railway station (Alberta) Union Station (Toronto) Gateway station (TransLink)	no change	only if needed

See also

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles

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