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Charette, Quebec
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Charette | |
|---|---|
Church Notre-Dame-des-Neiges | |
Location within Maskinongé RCM | |
| Coordinates: 46°27′N 72°56′W / 46.450°N 72.933°W[1] | |
| Country | |
| Province | |
| Region | Mauricie |
| RCM | Maskinongé |
| Settled | c. 1875 |
| Constituted | February 9, 1918 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Claude Boulanger |
| • Fed. riding | Berthier—Maskinongé |
| • Prov. riding | Maskinongé |
| Area | |
• Total | 42.26 km2 (16.32 sq mi) |
| • Land | 41.90 km2 (16.18 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 1,034 |
| • Density | 24.7/km2 (64/sq mi) |
| • Change 2016-21 | |
| • Dwellings | 519 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code(s) | 819 |
| Highways | |
| Website | www |
Charette (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁɛt] ⓘ) is a municipality of about 1000 people located in Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada.
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.[1]
On December 31, 2001, Charette was added to the Maskinongé RCM when Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality was dissolved.
Demographics
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Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 485 (total dwellings: 519)[3]
Mother tongue (2021):[3]
- English as first language: 0.5%
- French as first language: 97.6%
- English and French as first languages: 1.0%
- Other as first language: 0.5%
List of mayors

The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. Charette has had fourteen mayors.[5] Officially, municipal elections in Charette are on a non-partisan basis.
| # | Mayor | Taking Office | Leaving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph de Charette [6] | 1918 | 1927 |
| 2 | Alphonse de Charette | 1927 | 1933 |
| 3 | Hermile Gélinas | 1933 | 1937 |
| 4 | Wilfrid Bellemare [7] | 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 [8] |
| 14 | Claude Boulanger | 2013 [9] | Current |
References
- 1 2 "Charette (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- 1 2 "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 51080". www.quebec.ca (in French). Gouvernement du Québec. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Charette, Quebec (Code 2451080) Census Profile". 2021 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
- ↑ "1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical)". Catalogue 92-702 Vol I, part 1 (Bulletin 1.1-2). Statistics Canada. July 1973.
- ↑ 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- Official website

