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Municipality in Quebec, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charette (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁɛt] ) is a municipality of about 1000 people located in Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada.
Charette | |
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![]() Church Notre-Dame-des-Neiges | |
![]() Location within Maskinongé RCM. | |
Coordinates: 46°27′N 72°56′W[1] | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
Region | Mauricie |
RCM | Maskinongé |
Settled | c. 1875 |
Constituted | February 9, 1918 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Claude Boulanger |
• Federal riding | Berthier—Maskinongé |
• Prov. riding | Maskinongé |
Area | |
• Total | 42.20 km2 (16.29 sq mi) |
• Land | 41.90 km2 (16.18 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[3] | |
• Total | 1,034 |
• Density | 24.7/km2 (64/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016-2021 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 519 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code | 819 |
Highways | ![]() ![]() |
Website | www.municipalite -charette.ca |
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.
Population trend:[4]
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 485 (total dwellings: 519)
Mother tongue:
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 |
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