Hull

Over a thousand.

He is a Hull, Quebec native.

Ah, from Hull, Quebec.

And played for a lot of different teams.

Played for a lot of different teams.

Over 1,000 games from Hull, Quebec.

Give me Claude Giroux.

No.

You know, I'll, I'm showing my age a lot on this call with, because I know the history of this, but I was one of the few people that was, I think it was about 50 of us who were in the very first LTAD meeting.

It was in Hull, Quebec, just across from Ottawa.

And the first LTAD basically was a high performance pathway.

And it was a triangle.

What was then known as Wright's Town had been in existence for, in fact, 25 years, a quarter of a century.

Um, people will probably know the name Philemon Wright, and he was the American immigrant who founded the community of Wright's Town, which became Hull, and which today we know as Gatineau.

And it was a pretty substantial village.

When they started Bytown in 1826, Hull, as it was becoming known at the time, was about 800 to 1,000 people.

And it was a pretty substantial development that Bytown could only dream of at that time.

[upbeat music] How has doing all this research about the founding of this city, how has it changed your perception of living here?

Well, I was hesitant to take it on because I had two small children in L.A., and I wanted to be present in their life, and I didn't know how long that was going to be, if the show was going to be successful.

But what won me over, what made me decide to do it, is I had a very close friend, Claude Tessier, from Hull, Quebec, and he's really, you know, he was, what is that thing when you're, What do they say about each other when you're something spirits? Kindred spirits.

Yeah, we were kindred spirits.

And he was very ill with AIDS and he always wanted me to be on Broadway.