Gatineau

Gatineau is a Ville Quebec and the administrative center of the administrative area of the Outaouais. It is located on northern bank of the Rivière of Outaouais, in the east and the west of the river Gatineau, opposite the town of Ottawa. It gathers now the towns of Gatineau, Hull, Buckingham, Aylmer and Masson-Angers, amalgamated since January 1st 2002. In the agglomeration (Ottawa-Gatineau) the population reaches more 1  200  000 inhabitants. It is one of the main cities of the Quebec and belonged to the fourth agglomeration in importance (that of Ottawa) with the Canada after Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

The name Gatineau comes from the Gastineau family, one of those having practiced the draft of the furs on this river with XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries.

See also Hull .

Municipal chronology

  • July 1st 1855: The cantons of Hull , Templeton and Buckingham as well as the village of Aylmer and Buckingham are made up during the first municipal cutting of Quebec.

  • February 23rd 1875: The city of Hull is detached from the canton of Hull.
  • 1876 : The village of Point-with-Gatineau is detached from Templeton.
  • 1877 : The parish of the Angel-Guard is detached from the canton of Buckingham.
  • 1880 : The canton of Hull is divided to form the cantons of Hull-Part-South and Hull-Part-West.
  • 1886 : The canton of Templeton is divided to form the cantons of Templeton-West and Templeton-Is .
  • 1889 : The canton of Hull-Part-Is is detached from Hull-Part-West.
  • 1890 : The village of Buckingham changes its statute for that of city.
  • 1897 : The town of Masson is detached from the canton of Buckingham.
  • March 23rd 1897: The canton of Buckingham-Part-South-Is is detached from the canton of Buckingham.
  • 1900 : Large Fire of Hull
  • 1909: The canton of Templeton-Part-North is detached from Templeton-Is.
  • 1915 : The village of Angers is detached of the Angel-Guard.
  • 1918 : The canton of Buckingham-Part-South-West is detached from the canton of Buckingham.
  • 1920: The village of Deschênes is detached from Hull-Part-South. The village of Templeton and the canton of Templeton-Be-Part-Are are detached from Templeton-Is.
  • 1933 : The village of Gatineau is detached from Templeton-West.
  • 1957 : Point-with-Gatineau becomes the town of Point-Gatineau . Gatineau changes its statute for that of city.
  • 1964 : Hull-Part-south changes its name for municipality of Lucerne .
  • 1971 : Its name for town of Touraine Hull-Part-is exchange.
  • 1975 : Hull changes its statute for that of city. The towns of Point-Gatineau, Gatineau and Touraine, the cantons of Templeton-West, Templeton-Is and Templeton-Be-Part-Is as well as the village of Templeton are amalgamated to form the town of Gatineau . The towns of Buckingham and Masson, the municipality of Our-Lady-with-the-Salette , the cantons of Buckingham, Buckingham-Part-South-Is and Buckingham-Part-South-West, the parish of the Angel-Guard and the village of Angers are amalgamated to form the town of Buckingham .
  • January 1st 1975: Aylmer, Lucerne and Deschênes amalgamate to form the town of Aylmer .
  • May 17th 1979: Following popular pressures, the town of Masson and the municipalities of the Angel-Guard and Our-Lady-with-the-Salette are detached from Buckingham.
  • January 1st 1989: The municipality of Cantley is detached from Gatineau.
  • 1993 : Masson changes its name for town of Masson-Angers
  • 2000: Bicentenary of the town of Hull and whose celebrations lasted 12 months.
  • January 1st 2002: The towns of Aylmer, Buckingham, Gatineau, Hull and Masson-Angers amalgamate to form the town of Gatineau .

Languages

The official language of the Quebec being the French, the population of Gatineau mainly remains French-speaking with approximately 87.6%. Had with the proximity of the town of Ottawa and thus of the Ontario, the city counts an important anglophone minority (of 10.1%). The Portuguese is the third language in importance (approximately 5,7%). The other spoken languages are immigrant languages such as the Arab , the Spanish , the German , the Italian , the Chinese, etc .

Arts and Culture

Theaters

  • House of the Culture of Gatineau: The Room Odyssey has a capacity of 850 places. To gained 3 Felix (2004, 2005 and 2006) for is the diffuser of spectacles of the year, or the theater of the year.
  • small Chicago: Small Chicago has a capacity of 125 places. It presents spectacles of Jazz, Song, Rock'n'roll and Music of the world.
  • Jean-Desprez Room: Room of 228 places located in the House of the Citizen.
  • the Theater of the Island is the first municipal theater in Quebec. The building was built in 1886 as a water tower.
  • Theater of the Casino of the Lake Leamy. Spectacles with great deployment.
  • Basoche is a place of diffusion for intimate spectacles, such as jazz, humor, new music.

The House of the citizen initially shelters the Town hall of Gatineau. One also finds there:

  • the Hall of the Nations, with its works coming from various countries given to the city with the passing of years.
  • Jean-Desprez Room: Theater of 228 places, who offers varied programming, energy of the popular song to humor, while passing by the tales.
  • the Montcalm Gallery is an art gallery which tries to present various styles going from the modern one, to the contemporary, traditional, post-modern, with regional artists, Canadian and sometimes international.
  • a branch of the Public library of Gatineau.
  • Vidéotron Press room: Room being useful for the Press conferences for various local organizations, and the town of Gatineau.
  • Gilles-Rocheleau Agora: room with open surface being used to organize receptions. It is also useful at the time of the evening electoral like place of ralliment of Gatinois to accommodate the new elected mayor.

Economy

At the beginning the economy gatinoise rested much on the pastes and papers. Today, the economy rests mainly on the Public office, due to the proximity of Ottawa and the federal government.

MAJOR INDUSTRIES

  • Bowater, 400 employees
  • Masson Papers, 270 employees
  • Kruger (Scott)
  • Public office of the Government of Canada, 20.000 employees
  • Public office of the Government of Quebec
  • Public office of the Town of Gatineau
  • University of Quebec in Outaouais
  • 3 school commissions (of the Bearings of Outaouais, Draveurs, With the Heart-of-Valleys)
  • Cégep Heritage College
  • Casino of the Lake Leamy
  • Cégep of Outaouais (three campuses)

Skyscraper of Gatineau

  • the Place of the Bearing: divided into 4 phases (Bearing I, Bearing II, Bearing III and Bearing IV). It measures 101 meters height. It belongs to the Government of Canada which employs there nearly 10.000 people.

  • Terraces of the Boiler: divided into 3 parts (building of the east, building of the center and building of the west). The complex belongs to Governement of Canada which employs 6.500 federal civils servant there. The building is the most skyscraper of the city with 124 meters height and has 30 stages.

Rivers of the city

the rivers

the lakes

  • Lake Leamy
  • Lake Beauchamp
  • Lake of the Fairies
  • Lake of the Career
  • Lake Deschênes (this lake is in fact a widening of the river of Outaouais)
  • Lac Pink

the brooks

  • Brook of the Brewery
  • Brook Desjardins
  • Brook of the Lake Leamy
  • Brook Wabassee

Federal and provincial policy

Federal

The federal policy with Gatineau was dominated a long time by the Liberal party of Canada, but with the last federal elections, the liberals were demolished in two of the three districts of the city.

federal Deputies

Provincial

Probably due to the proximity of the Canadian capital , the town of Gatineau is one of the most federalistic cities of the Quebec; with the referendum of 1995 NOT carried it with an average of 70,71%. The city is, so a liberal bastion since 1981. The Liberal party of Quebec in 2007 preserved the five seats of the city and obtained 45,4% of the popular vote, loser however seventeen points compared to 2003. ADQ with delighted the majority of the points to the liberals, having finished second in Pontiac and Chapleau by obtaining 22,9% of the votes in the city. The Left Québécois, finishes to him second in Hull, Gatineau and Papineau taking 22.3% of the voices.

Provincial Deputies

Sectors of the city

During fusion in 2002, the new town of Gatineau decided to keep the old names of the cities and to divide the city into secteurs : sectors of Gatineau, Hull, Aylmer, Buckingham, and Masson-Angers, which are divided into district extremely different.

Gatineau (in green)

The sector of Gatineau is an especially residential and commercial sector. It is the most populated city with 129  676 inhabitants, is 45,4% of the population of the city. It gathers several shopping malls like the walks of Outaouais, the greatest shopping mall of the city.

Hull (in yellow)

The sector of Hull is, for a good part of its territory, the downtown area of Gatineau. Close to 40  000 people work the every day there. It is also in this sector where there are the most green areas (Parc of Gatineau). It is where the town hall of the city is. Hull is the oldest sector of the city; the first colonists settled there in 1800. It counts 83  484 inhabitants.

Aylmer (in red)

Aylmer is as a residential sector, though more cossu and more snuffed by people as Gatineau. There are as more green areas as in Gatineau. Many construction projects settled there these last years, especially since fusion, such as for example the Symmes Plate, in the north (before rural) of the old city. It counts 45  415 inhabitants.

Buckingham (out of orange)

The sector of Buckingham is the downtown area of the east of Gatineau. It is more commercial and is inhabited more than Masson-Anger. It counts 14  567 inhabitants.

Masson-Angers (in blue)

Masson-Anger is a very peaceful district, having a reputation of large village. The sector is the least populated city with only 12  282 inhabitants.

Districts of the city and advisers

The town of Gatineau is divided into 17 districts or districts and each one of these districts has an adviser, including three in Aylmer, five in Hull, seven in Gatineau, in Masson-Angers and in Buckingham

Aylmer

  • 1-Aylmer: Frank Thérien
  • 2-Lucerne: Andre Laframboise
  • 3-Deschênes: Alain Riel

Hull

  • 4-Valley-Tétreau: Alain Pilon
  • 5-Wright-Park-of-the-Mountain: Patrice Martin
  • 6-Orée-of-Park: Louise Pear tree
  • 7-St-Raymond-Basket maker: Pierre Philion
  • 8-Hull: Denise Laferrière

Gatineau

  • 9-Limbour: Simon Root
  • 10-Residents: Denis Packed
  • 11-Walks: Luc Angers
  • 12-Slope: Joseph De Sylva
  • 13-Bellevue: Richard Side
  • 14-Lake-Beauchamp: 15-River-White Aurèle Desjardins
  • : Yvon Butcher

Masson-Angers

  • 16-Masson-Angers: Luc Montreuil

Buckingham

  • 17-Buckingham: Jocelyne Swells

Education

UNIVERSITY

  • the University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO, fact left the network University of Quebec. It counts 5.506 students, and has just launched the construction of a campus to Saint-Jerome.

  • Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico City (UNAM opened, several years ago, a campus with the downtown area of Gatineau. The purpose of it is to support the Spanish language and studies, while approaching the Canadian universities.
  • part of the university students cross the river of Outaouais to go to the University of Ottawa, which is bilingual.

COLLEGIAL

  • the Cégep of Outaouais, which counts 4.000 regular students and 2.000 in time partel, in 3 campuses, and of tens of various programs and course.

  • Cégep Heritage College, is anglophone Cégep for the area of Outaouais. Approximately 1.000 students there are counted.
  • the College Pre-Academic News Borders offers various courses in preparation of the university.

SECONDARY PRIVATE

  • the College Saint-Alexandre, is an institution founded in 1905. The College offers various courses to train its pupils. He also enjoys a vast ground, comprising several sporting installations.

  • the Saint-Joseph College is a school which accommodates 800 young girls, being located at the downtown area hullois and was been founded in 1864.
  • the College News Borders, mixed institution founded in 2002, account 850 pupils.

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PUBLIC

  • the School commission of Draveurs covers the territory of the old town of Gatineau (like Cantley and Valley-of-Mounts) and account 24 elementary schools, 4 schools secondary, 2 professional centers and 2 centers for adults. In all these establishments one counts more than 20.000 pupils.

  • the School commission of the Bearings of Outaouais covers the old towns of Hull and Aylmer (like Pontiac, Chelsea and Fishing). It counts more than 14.000 pupils, in 21 elementary schools, 4 secondary schools and 5 centers for adults and of general training.
  • Commsssion Scolaire With-Heart-of-Valleys covers the sector Masson-Angers and Buckingham, like all the cities of the Small-Nation.

Media

Nb: certain media of Ottawa are included in the list due to the natural proximity.

DAILY NEWSPAPERS

  • the Right, founded in 1913, is the French-speaking daily of the Capital.
  • The Ottawa Citizen, founded in 1845, is the daily newspaper of CanWest Global in Ottawa.
  • The Ottawa Sun, founded in the years 1980, is the populist daily newspaper of Ottawa.
  • 24 Hours, launched in 2007, French-speaking free daily newspaper distributed by Québécor.
  • 24 Hours, also launched in 2007, anglophone free daily newspaper also distributed by Quebecor.
  • Subway, free anglophone daily newspaper
  • Hour Rush, published by Ottawa Citizen, it is addressed to the users of public transport and is published in afternoon.

Moreover, as Ottawa is the national capital, all the large newspapers of the country and besides in the world are available in the area, that is to say for the delivery in residence or the sale in kiosk

WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS

  • the Review of Gatineau, twice-weekly, relates to the topicality of the big city of Gatineau.
  • the Bulletin of Aylmer relates to the Community topicality of the Aylmer sector.
  • West Quebec Post is an anglophone newspaper on the Community topicality of the english-speaking of Outaouais.

RADIOS

French-speaking

Anglophone

TELEVISION

Sports

  • Plays of Quebec during the summer 1981 and will be host of the plays of Quebec 2010.
  • Jeux of the Francophonie jointly with Ottawa in 2001.
  • the Olympiques of Gatineau of the Ligue of hockey major junior of Quebec play there like junior team of hockey since 1973.
  • the sporting teams intercollégiales of the CÉGEP of Outaouais are known under the name of the Griffons CÉGEP of Outaouais since 1977. The CÉGEP is represented in a total of seven disciplines, that is to say the Badminton, Basketball, Volley ball, Swimming, Soccer, Cheerleeding and Football.

Sport Gatineau (Polyvalante Of L erabliere)

football Jaguars

Urban villages

One of the strategic objectives of the town of Gatineau is entitled: Towards a mosaic of urban villages .

See also: urban Villages of Gatineau

This objective consists in making evolve Gatineau to an exemplary community made up of urban villages articulated around social networks flourishing, structured along a transport system adapted to the needs for the users and connected to each other by multiple channels of communication. There are 16 urban villages. Here the list of the urban villages of Gatineau, of is in west.

  • 1. Valley-of-the-hare

  • 2. Basin-of-the-hare, (Masson-Angers)
  • 3. River-white
  • 4. Mill
  • 5. The City
  • 6. River-Gatineau
  • 7. The Rapids
  • 8. Downtown area
  • 9. Lake-of-fairies
  • 10. Mount-blue
  • 11. High-plains
  • 12. Park
  • 13. The Plate
  • 14. The Golfs
  • 15. Lake-Deschênes
  • 16 Of the Explorers

Tourism

TOURIST PLACES

  • Casino of the Lake Leamy: Complex major of entertainment and hotel.
  • Canadian Museum of Civilizations. It is the museum more visited in Canada. Inside one finds also the Canadian Museum of the Children and the Canadian Museum of the Post office.
  • the Parc of Gatineau is the paradise for the amateurs of sport. One finds there basic ski slopes, a center of Alpine skiing, beaches, paths of bicycle of mountain, paths of walk, grounds of picnic, view-points, a place Historique (Field Mackenzie King), a camp-site and country cottages.
  • the Steam train Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield On 64 km, in a train going back to 1907, to travel along the River Gatineau and to explore the picturesque village of Wakefield.
  • the Central of the Rapids-Farmers, is an hydroelectric station exploited by Hydro-Quebec, is located at the northern limit of Gatineau, very close to Cantley.
  • Hippodrome of Aylmer, is an equestrian center of race. One finds there stables for 200 horses, and of the races of 1 thousand, 1 thousand 1⁄16 and 13⁄16 of thousand. Moreover, one mini-casino of 65 machines with under is on the spot. Paris inter-track available.
  • Complex Entertaining Amigo, complex entertaining located in the east of the town of Gatineau. Miniature golf and go-karts.
  • Signal KartingCourse and environment of competition against the watch. That it is the Test 10 minutes, Enduro 45 turns or the Grand Prix. Interior karting.
  • the House of the Citizen of Gatineau, is in fact the Town hall of Gatineau. One finds there the town hall, a theater (Jean-Desprez Room) of 228 places, an art gallery (Montcalm Gallery), the Hall of the Nations (a hall of exposure which gathers various works of art coming from several countries), a press room serving the community and the City, a gymnasium, an agora and a branch of the public library.

EVENTS

  • Large Fires of the Casino Compétiton of 5 evenings pyrotechnical arts.
  • Festival of Montgolfiers of Gatineau Flown away of Montgolfiers, spectacles of the Québécois great names of the song.
  • Ball of Snow Festival celebrating the winter.
  • Great Laughter Festival presenting of the spectacles of humor in room and plen-air.
  • Living room of the Book of Outaouais. Each spring, thousands of people attend with the conferences, interview, meetings, talks of authors and bouqinent among the many kiosks of the publishers.
  • Go International of the Cartoon. Annual appointment authors and draftsmen of cartoons.
  • Outaouais in Festival. During the days surrounding the National Festival of Quebec, of the thousands of people converge towards the Park of the Cedars to attend the spectacles of the largest French-speaking artists. Horse-gears and animation divert also people.
  • the Sand Wonders are an underperforming meeting of sculptures on sand to the Park of the Lake Beauchamp.
  • Gatineau Loppet (until very recently called Keskinada Loppet) is an international competition of ski touring in the paths of the Park of Gatineau.
  • the Parade of Father-Christmas of the Aylmer sector is always very courru by the families.
  • the Canadian Marathon of Ski, is a competition of ski touring of 160km between Lachute and Gatineau.
  • the Appointment of Savors of Outaouais is a great gastronomical festival, the chiefs make dishes with products of the soil, and meals and tastings are offered. The whole proceeds at the House of the Citizen.

Personalities gatinoises

These people were born and/or grew in Gatineau:

Transport

  • the Executive Aéroport of Gatineau-Ottawa is an airport of municipal management which offers scheduled flights with the International airport of Quebec.
  • STO (Shipping company of Outouais): system of bus in urban environment.
  • OC Transpo : network of bus of the town of Ottawa. Some span the Rivière of Outaouais and serve the sector Hull of the town of Gatineau.
  • International airport Macdonald-Cartier: Although on the territory of the town of Ottawa it is hardly with a few kilometers of the downtown area of Gatineau
  • the boulevard of Allumettières (rallying of the axis McConnell-Laramée and the St. Lawrence boulevard) will be new the artery connecting the sector Hull to the sector Aylmer. It is a boulevard new kind using of the roundabouts in the place of the usual fire of circulation.

ROADS

  • Highway 50: it carries out the bond between the sectors of Buckingham and Masson-Angers and the sector Hull. The ministry for Transport of Quebec began the construction of the missing segment, between the sector Buckingham and the municipality of Saint-Philippe-in Argenteuil, a length of approximately 80 kilometers.
  • Highway 5: it begins at the end of the street King Edward with Ottawa, crosses the sector Hull and skirts the Parc of Gatineau in direction of Maniwaki, fascinating however fine with Chelsea.
  • Road 105 (Quebec): parallel with the Highway 5 and the River Gatineau, it begins in the sector Hull as a Saint-Joseph boulevard and finishes with Large-Movement, in the north of Maniwaki, the junction of the Route 117 which crosses the faunal Réserve Vérendrye in direction of the Abitibi--Témiscamingue.
  • Road 148 (Quebec): located between the River of Outaouais and the Highway 50, it is for the moment -- from here with the connection of the two already existing sections of the Highway 50 -- the principal road axis carrying out the bond between Gatineau and Montreal on Québécois bank of the River of Outaouais.
  • Route 307 (Quebec) establishes the link between Gatineau and Valley-of-Wood.
  • Route 309 (Quebec) establishes the link between the sector is of Gatineau and the Highones.
  • Route 315 (Quebec) establishes the link between the sector is of Gatineau and the Small-Nation.
  • Route 366 (Quebec) establishes the link between Gatineau and Pontiac.

Archbishop's palace

Municipalities bordering

Sources

  • Repertory of the municipalities of Quebec
  • Commission of toponymy of Quebec
  • municipal Businesses and areas - regional charts

External bonds

  • Official site of the Town of Gatineau
  • Official site of the Shipping company of Outaouais
  • Official site of the Commission youth of Gatineau
  • Tourism in Gatineau

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