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HULL , a city . (1875) and railway junction of the province ofSee also: Quebec, See also: Canada, and the capital of See also: Wright county, opposite the city of See also: Ottawa
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Pop
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(1901) 13,988
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The magnificent See also: water-power of the Chaudiere Falls of the Ottawa is utilized for the See also: lighting of the city, the operation of a See also: system of electric See also: railways connecting Hull with Ottawa and See also: Aylmer, and a number of large saw-mills, pulp, paper and match manufactories
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Hull has gone through several disastrous fires, but since that of 'goo, which swept out most of the See also: town, an efficient system of fire See also: protection has been established
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Three See also: bridges unite Ottawa and Hull
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The city is governed by a council composed of a mayor and twelve aldermen elected annually
.
Champlain was the first See also: white
See also: man to set See also: foot on the site of Hull, but long before he came it was a favourite meeting-place for the See also: Indians
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Later it became See also: familiar to explorers and fur-traders as the foot of the Chaudiere See also: portage, and many a canoe has been carried shoulder high over the site of future busy streets
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Philemon Wright, of See also: Woburn, Massachusetts, was the first man to See also: settle here in r800
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The report he sent back was so favourable that a number of other families followed from the same place and laid the See also: foundations of the future city
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His descendants have remained among the substantial men of the town . |
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