Gatineau - Quebec - Canada - 4K Downtown Drive

[@rongoesCDN]

The reason why Gatineau looks so grubby is that the housing was built for the workers for the EB Eddy matchstick plant which is why you see the name and 'Allumettes' splattered all over the town formerly called Hull. The town and others were formally merged into Gatineau regional Municipality (MRC). The river that you crossed is the Gatineau which was the feed water for the flume that brought logs down from the Gatineau hills directly to the plant and for other mills in the area. The plant was located directly opposite the Ottawa river from the Canadian Parliament and clearly visible from the back of it. The city supplies cheap accommodations for students studying and Ottawa U and Carleton U in Ottawa.

[@Memento_Marie]

Thank you for sharing.😊

[@NebulonRanger]

Something cool about driving through Québec is that it's a bit of a hard line in terms of Europeanness compared to the very Midwestern southern Ontario and very British / Scottish Maritimes. The architecture and city design is very European.

[@TheBlackWrapperDude]

Quebec this is a part of Canada where you have to learn and speak French since it's a command native language in this Province maybe English

[@MileageMikeTravels]

Yeah you really feel like you’re in a different country once you hit Quebec.

[@TheBlackWrapperDude]

@@MileageMikeTravels yeah true I do want to visit Quebec but I forgot that you have to speak French if you go out there because a lot of the street names and everything is confusing since it's all labeled in French

[@NebulonRanger]

@@TheBlackWrapperDude Well, that depends. In the eastern townships? Absolutely, French is a must. In Gatineau or Montreal? Most people speak at least conversational English.

[@TheBlackWrapperDude]

@@NebulonRanger interesting

[@tyler6971]

@@NebulonRanger Montreal yes, Gatineau? Absolutely not.

[@kiewies]

You said, "What stop sign" 😂

[@KhaoticDeterminism]

what’s fun is we’re an immigrant from Germany we didn’t realize tho at the time that Austrian Painter had copied USA and that none of the allied countries are applying the lessons learned being nonbinary (#autism) our visibility is pretty erased already… but ya #quebec the entire province… omg it’s nonstop cultural g word cause we’re Pagan Nation your females foam at the mouth around us get eff’ed cheers #2Spirit #indigenous #ottawa

[@satyadasgumbyji8956]

I had no idea Quebec was Mayberry tumbleweed podunk Nothingtowne!!! I've followed 3 drive-ins expecting Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, even fukn podunk Regina but this us sad af! Makes Arakansas look like Paris!!! SMGDMFH!😅

[@stephmenard4510]

The 90's on Du Portage.

[@MartyGlenn72]

The only thing I like about Quebec are the horizontal traffic lights and the “winged” style street lights. Otherwise I much prefer Ontario…

[@jayflock7446]

i like their autoroute symbols, reminds me of the interstate shields

[@rongoesCDN]

@@jayflock7446 That's what it was designed to do for EXPO 67 in Montreal. To make Americans fell comfortable driving in Quebec. They tried to get Ontario to join in but they wanted to call them the 400 series highways. The QEW, the Gardiner and the DVP were already built. The Quebec freeways that had already been built by the early 60's were the Laurentien (Laurentian, A-15 north of the MET), the Autoroute-des-Cantons-l'est (Eastern Townships Autoroute A-10 from the Champlain Bridge South and east) and the Metropolitain (the MET as we call it, A-40 from A-25 to the Decarie Circle, A-520). Like in Toronto, the former two were provincially built while the Latter one was built by the City of Montreal (Actually the former one and the Latter two in Ontario) and the former two were tolled and had a specific Autoroutes Authority. During that time the whole highway system got renumbered on the American Interstate pattern with 100,200 and 300 series highways reserved for Primary and Secondary highways(100 for primary highways and 200 for secondaries south of the river and 300 for secondaries north of the river. The exception is route 201 that starts near the US border near Franklin, crosses the river at Valleyfield Crosses the A-20 and cuts northeast toward St-Clet and Rigaud were it hits A-40. The other three digits are reserved for beltway and spur routes like A-440 Laval and A-540 from A-40 in Quebec City to the Bridges.

[@ClovisBationo]

Pourquoi quand on montre Gatineau y'a toujours pratiquement personne dans les rues? Ils sont où, les habitants. Les gens ne dépriment pas?

[@minnymm2719]

How do you pay tax if you work in Ottawa but live in Quebec? Ontario tax or Quebec tax?

[@tyler6971]

You pay both. You pay into ontario tax and when you get your tax return you take that and pay what quebec wants.

[@minnymm2719]

@@tyler6971 a lot of people do this? Gatineau is cheaper than Ottawa for rent?

[@Delphine-RH]

Encore un beau voyage ! Mais où est la neige ??🤪😶‍🌫

[@positiveandstrong]

Ghost town