Land for sale near Gatineau, Quebec

About Gatineau

The town

Gatineau is Quebec's fourth-largest city, with 291,041 people in 2021, up 5.4% from 2016, on about 342 km² of land along the north shore of the Ottawa River, facing Ottawa. Today's city was formed on January 1, 2002, from the former municipalities of Aylmer, Buckingham, Hull, Gatineau and Masson-Angers. It is not part of any MRC: since 2002 the city has held MRC powers itself, so it keeps both the land-use plan (schéma d'aménagement et de développement, the revised one in force since December 2015) and its own planning bylaws. The city's Service de l'urbanisme issues building permits, including those for farm buildings, septic systems and wells. The permanent agricultural zone covers close to 40% of the city, mostly north of Autoroute 50 and in the Aylmer and Masson-Angers sectors; non-farm uses there fall under the CPTAQ, Quebec's farmland protection commission. The Hôpital de Hull and the Hôpital de Papineau both run emergency departments open around the clock.

Around it

Outside the urban perimeter, the plan sets aside four rural "milieux de vie champêtre" with scattered housing. The Gatineau and Lièvre rivers cross the city. Gatineau Park, a federal park of more than 361 km² run by the National Capital Commission, lies between the Aylmer and Hull sectors, and Lac-Leamy and Lac-Beauchamp parks are inside the city. Autoroute 50 runs east to Lachute, and Autoroute 5 heads north toward Wakefield and south over the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge into Ottawa. Ottawa International Airport has the nearest scheduled flights.

Sources

• Ville de Gatineau, revised land-use plan (schéma d'aménagement et de développement révisé, R-2050-2016)
• Ville de Gatineau, building permits
• Ville de Gatineau, permit for a main farm building
• CPTAQ
• Statistics Canada, 2021 Census population and dwelling counts (table 98-10-0002)
• Quebec health and social services directory, Hôpital de Hull
• Quebec health and social services directory, Hôpital de Papineau
• National Capital Commission, Gatineau Park
• Ottawa International Airport

Written by AcreScout from the sources listed; facts checked October 3, 2026. Rules change: confirm anything that matters with the municipality.