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Gatineau

Gatineau
City
Ville de Gatineau
Gatineau downtown area
Gatineau downtown area
Coat of arms of Gatineau
Coat of arms
Official logo of Gatineau
Logo
Motto: Fortunae meae, multorum faber ("Maker of my fate and that of many others")
Location of Gatineau (red) with adjacent municipalities.
Location of Gatineau (red) with adjacent municipalities.
Gatineau is located in Quebec
Gatineau
Gatineau
Location of Gatineau in Quebec
Coordinates: 45°29′N 75°39′W / 45.483°N 75.650°W / 45.483; -75.650Coordinates: 45°29′N 75°39′W / 45.483°N 75.650°W / 45.483; -75.650
Country Canada
Province Quebec
Region Outaouais
RCM None
Constituted 1 January 2002
Government
 • Type Gatineau City Council
 • Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin
 • Federal riding Gatineau / Hull—Aylmer / Pontiac / Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation
 • Prov. riding Chapleau / Gatineau / Hull / Papineau / Pontiac
Area
 • City 381.30 km2 (147.22 sq mi)
 • Land 342.98 km2 (132.43 sq mi)
 • Metro 2,999.90 km2 (1,158.27 sq mi)
Population (2011)
 • City 265,349
 • Density 773.7/km2 (2,004/sq mi)
 • Metro 314,501
 • Metro density 104.8/km2 (271/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Increase 9.6%
 • Dwellings 117,769
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s) J8L to J8Z, J9A
Area code(s) 819, 873
Highways
A-5
A-50

Route 105
Route 148
Route 307
Route 315
Route 366
Bridges Alexandra
Portage
Chaudière
Prince of Wales
Champlain
Macdonald-Cartier
Website www.gatineau.ca

Gatineau (/ˈɡætn/, French pronunciation: ​[ɡatino]), officially Ville de Gatineau, is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is the fourth largest city in the province after Montreal, Quebec City, and Laval. It is located on the northern bank of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, together with which it forms Canada's National Capital Region. As of 2011 Gatineau had a population of 265,349, and a metropolitan population of 314,501. The Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area had a population of 1,236,324.

Gatineau is coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of the same name, whose geographical code is 81. It is the seat of the judicial district of Hull.

The current city of Gatineau is centred on an area called Hull, the oldest European colonial settlement in the National Capital Region. It was founded on the north shore of the Ottawa River in 1800 by Philemon Wright at the portage around the Chaudière Falls just upstream (or west) from where the Gatineau and Rideau Rivers flow into the Ottawa. Wright brought his family, five other families and twenty-five labourers and a plan to establish an agriculturally based community to what was then a mosquito-infested wilderness. But soon after, Wright and his family took advantage of the large lumber stands and became involved in the timber trade. The original settlement was called Wrightstown, later it became Hull and in 2002, after amalgamation, the City of Gatineau.


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