County of Hull

See also: Hull

The county of Hull , dissolved administrative division of the Canada located in the province of the Quebec, car its name of the English city of Hull alias Kingston-upon-Hull located in the East Yorkshire. The county was dissolved during the creation of the regional Communauté of Outaouais to the beginning of the year 1970.

It was limited to the west by the Comté of Gatineau and to the east by the Comté of Papineau.

It is located on northern bank of the Rivière of Outaouais and is belonged to the area of the Outaouais, one of the 12 approximate areas of Quebec.

The county of Hull is an imperfect rectangle: at its border in north is the Canton of Portland cement Comté of Papineau (45 degrees NR 41 ', 12 km), in the east entirely by the Canton of Buckingham of the county of Papineau (75 degrees O 33 ', 22 km), with the north-western corner by the Canton of Wakefield of the county of Gatineau. At the other side all length of its border of the south, i.e. the river of Outaouais, is the Canton of Gloucester Comté of Carleton, both belonging to Ottawa, in Ontario. All the county in entirety is the Canton of Templeton. This canton-county of Templeton-Hull includes/understands several communities, of which Templeton, Gatineau and Point-Gatineau. In term of topography, two thirds north of the county have a typical landscape of the Canadian Bouclier, while one the southern third of the county has a ground typically softer of a valley.

One often confuses the communities of Gatineau and Point-Gatineau of the County of Hull like belonging to the Comté of adjacent Gatineau in the west. Moreover, the community of Hull which is in the Canton of Hull are both in the county of Gatineau.

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