Editing Gatineau (section)

==Toponomy==
In 1613, during his first passage on the [[Ottawa River]], the great explorer [[Samuel de Champlain]] was the first European to speak of "the river that comes from the north", traveled for millennia by Aboriginals, but he did not name it. In 1721, Canadian surveyor [[Noël Beaupré]] recorded the river, but did not give it a name. In short, the name Gatineau was not used in [[New France]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=L'origine incertaine du toponyme Gatineau - French |url=https://infodelavallee.ca/culture/2021/04/16/lorigine-incertaine-du-toponyme-gatineau/ |access-date=17 November 2023 |website=L'info de la vallee}}</ref>

In fact, it was not until 1783 that the river was mentioned as Lettinoe in a report by Lieutenant David Jones to the Governor of Quebec, [[Frederick Haldimand|Sir Frederic Haldimand]]. In 1817, a map by [[Theodore Davis (Canadian politician)|Theodore Davis]] shows Gatteno, a name taken up with Gatino, Gateno and Gattino on plans by [[Philemon Wright]], the founder of [[Hull, Quebec|Hull Township]], and by Lieutenant-Colonel [[John By]], the engineer responsible for building the [[Rideau Canal]].

It was not until 1821 that the name Gatineau first appeared on a map of Nepean Township, Ontario. The same name appears again on [[William Henderson (architect)|William Henderson]]'s map of 1831, and on another drawn 30 years later by surveyor Thomas Devine. Thereafter, the river was always referred to as the [[Gatineau River|Gatineau]].<ref name=":0" />

There are two hypotheses to explain the origin of the city's name. It would be either of Indigenous origin or of French origin:
# The name of the river and the city would come from the Anishinaabemowin (language of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg) Tenagatino Zibi, according to the elders of Kitigan Zibi.<ref>Rick Henderson, https://www.capitalchronicles.ca/post/gatineau-paddling-through-the-history-of-a-river-s-name {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327191420/https://www.capitalchronicles.ca/post/gatineau-paddling-through-the-history-of-a-river-s-name |date=27 March 2023 }} www.capitalchronicles.ca, 13 novembre 2021</ref>
# In his 1889 article published in the Echo de la Gatineau,<ref>Benjamin Sulte, « Gatineau », L'Écho de la Gatineau, 6 juillet 1889, http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/001094/pdf/18890706-echo-de-la-gatineau-pointegatineau.pdf, pg. 1 and 2</ref> Benjamin Sulte wrote: "One hundred years ago, the Gatineau family was extinct, or thereabouts; it is hardly likely that we waited for its disappearance to consecrate the memory of the three or four fur traders it produced. The custom must have been established during the lifetime of these men, and because they traded in these places. Of the latter fact, for instance, I am not certain." In his own words, Sulte writes that he is creating a myth and that the story that the Gatineau family gave the river its name is a myth, invented by Sulte himself. According to Sulte, the name Gatineau comes from the Gastineau family - not Gatineau - one of its members, Nicolas Gastineau sieur Duplessis (1627-1689).<ref>Rick Henderson, https://www.capitalchronicles.ca/post/gatineau-paddling-through-the-history-of-a-river-s-name {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327191420/https://www.capitalchronicles.ca/post/gatineau-paddling-through-the-history-of-a-river-s-name |date=27 March 2023 }}, 31 novembre 2021</ref><ref>Commission de toponymie du Québec — ville de Gatineau [archive], https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=24715 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828222639/https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=24715 |date=28 August 2023 }}</ref>