Hull, Quebec
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#Neighbourhoods_in_Gatineau
#Former_municipalities_in_Quebec
#Former_cities_in_Quebec
#Populated_places_established_in_1800
#Populated_places_disestablished_in_2002
#2002_disestablishments_in_Quebec
#Central_business_districts_in_Canada
Hull is the central business district and oldest neighbourhood of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa.
As part of the Canadian National Capital Region, it contains offices for over 20,000 civil servants.
It is named after Kingston upon Hull in England.
Painting of Hull by Thomas Burrowes, with the Chaudière Falls and Bytown in background, 1830 Hull from Ottawa, 1896 Public execution in Hull, 1902 Corner of Main and Bridge Streets in Hull,
1905 Hull, 1913 Hull is a former municipality in the Province of Quebec and the location of the oldest non-native 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 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.
Originally the place was named Wright's Town, and the name Wrightville survives as the name of a neighbourhood in Hull.
The Gatineau River, like the Ottawa River, was very much the preserve of the draveurs, people who would use the river to transport logs from lumber camps until they arrived downriver.
（The Gatineau River flows south into the Ottawa River which flows east to the St Lawrence River near Montreal.） The log-filled Ottawa River,
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