Jean Dumontier, an architect who helped design Montreal metro stations, has died in his early 80s.
A spokesperson for the city's transit agency confirmed the death, which La Presse said was due to cancer.
The native of Labelle, in the Laurentians area north of Montreal, designed the plans for the now-renamed Ile-Sainte-Helene and Longueuil metro stations, which opened in 1967.
He was also the first architect to create the art for the stations he designed, including four murals in the Ile-Sainte-Helene station that recalled the themes of Expo 67.
Dumontier later served as the metropolitan transit agency's architecture director in the 1970s and 80s, where he oversaw the subway system's expansion and advocated for the inclusion of art in the stations' design.