Gatineau, Quebec
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| Ville de Gatineau | |||
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Gatineau downtown area
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| Motto: Fortunae meae, multorum faber ("Maker of my fate and that of many others") | |||
 Location of Gatineau (red) with adjacent municipalities. |
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 Gatineau
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| Coordinates: 45°29′N 75°39′W / 45.483°N 75.650°WCoordinates: 45°29′N 75°39′W / 45.483°N 75.650°W | |||
| 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 |
 9.6% |
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| • 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
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 Route 105 Route 148 Route 307 Route 315 Route 366
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| Bridges |
Alexandra Portage Chaudière Prince of Wales Champlain Macdonald-Cartier |
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| Website | www |
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Gatineau (/ˈɡætᵻnoʊ/, 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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