Charette, Quebec
History
Charette is named in honour of one of its first settlers, Édouard Charette, originally from Sainte-Ursule, who built a saw mill and flour mill around 1875. In 1910, the post office opened and in 1918, the Municipality of Charette was established when the Parish of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (formed in 1914) was incorporated. Its railway station identified the place with the English name of Charette's Mills for a period of time.
On December 31, 2001, Charette was added to the Maskinongé RCM when Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality was dissolved.
Demographics
Population trend:
- Population in 2021: 1,034 (2016 to 2021 population change: 7.5%)
- Population in 2016: 953
- Population in 2011: 993
- Population in 2006: 924
- Population in 2001: 941
- Population in 1996: 962
- Population in 1991: 968
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 485 (total dwellings: 519)
Mother tongue:
- English as first language: 0%
- French as first language: 99%
- English and French as first language: 0%
- Other as first language: 1%
List of mayors
The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. Charette has had fourteen mayors. Officially, municipal elections in Charette are on a non-partisan basis.
# | Mayor | Taking Office | Leaving |
1 | Joseph de Charette | 1918 | 1927 |
2 | Alphonse de Charette | 1927 | 1933 |
3 | Hermile Gélinas | 1933 | 1937 |
4 | Wilfrid Bellemare | 1937 | 1939 |
5 | Raymond Gélinas | 1939 | 1941 |
6 | Clément De Charette | 1941 | 1943 |
7 | Viatime Gélinas | 1943 | 1945 |
8 | Louis Lesieur | 1945 | 1947 |
9 | Adélard Matteau | 1947 | 1949 |
3 | Hermile Gélinas | 1949 | 1951 |
10 | Gérard Matteau | 1951 | 1961 |
11 | Marcel Bournival | 1961 | 1967 |
12 | Germain Gélinas | 1967 | 1971 |
11 | Marcel Bournival | 1971 | 1995 |
13 | Pauline St-Yves | 1995 | 1999 |
14 | Claude Boulanger | 1999 | 2009 |
15 | Guy Diamond | 2009 | 2013 |
14 | Claude Boulanger | 2013 | Current |
References
- ^ "Charette (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ^ Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - Répertoire des municipalités: Charette Archived 2014-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Charette, Municipalité (MÉ) [Census subdivision], Quebec". 9 February 2022.
- ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census
- ^ Source: Patricia Adam, Deputy General Manager of the Municipality of Charette
- ^ De Charette served as Mayor of Saint-Barnabé-Nord from 1907 to 1910.
- ^ Bellemare belonged to a group of residents who submitted a petition to the provincial legislature of Quebec in December 1917, requesting the municipal incorporation of Charette. See: Les débats de l'Assemblée législative, 14th Legislature, 2nd Session (from December 4, 1917 to February 9, 1918)
- ^ Martin Lafrenière, Guy Diamond quittera la mairie de Charette, Le Nouvelliste, September 6, 2013
- ^ Martin Lafrenière, Claude Boulanger veut redevenir maire de Charette, Le Nouvelliste, September 30, 2013
External links
- Media related to Charette, Quebec at Wikimedia Commons