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École secondaire Mont-Bleu

high school in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

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Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ8078016 ↗
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École Secondaire Mont-Bleu is a French-language public secondary school located in Gatineau, Quebec. It is located on Boulevard Cité des Jeunes in the Hull sector just on the eastern flank of the Gatineau Park, one of the National Capital Region's touristic destination. This school is among several other educational institutions located on Cite des Jeunes along with the CEGEP de l'Outaouais, Heritage College and Asticou Centre. Its facilities opened in 1976 and is run by the Commission Scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais (formerly Commission Scolaire Outaouais-Hull) school board.

Students are mostly coming from the Hull sector of the city with some coming from Chelsea and the Aylmer sector.

There are particular programs called "Voies" in which students can follow a particular formation in preparation for superior courses in college or university. Such programs exist in sport, visual art, music, biology, chemistry and more. The obligatory courses are French, Mathematics, science, ethics, history and sport class.

Transportation is mostly provided by the Société de transport de l'Outaouais which has special schools routes that follows most of the track of the regular routes (such as the 31, 33, 37, 39 and 49).

On September 21, 2018, the school was damaged by a fire after the passing of an EF-3 tornado.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “École secondaire Mont-Bleu” as high school in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. The account is most persuasive where École, secondaire and Mont-Bleu can be independently traced.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8078016. Authority coordinates are 45.462, -75.771. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “École secondaire Mont-Bleu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.