Charette () 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.
On December 31, 2001, Charette was added to the Maskinongé RCM when Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality was dissolved.
Demographics
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 485 (total dwellings: 519)
Mother tongue (2021): 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.Source: Patricia Adam, Deputy General Manager of the Municipality of Charette Officially, municipal elections in Charette are on a non-partisan basis.
# Mayor Taking Office Leaving 1 Joseph de Charette De Charette served as Mayor of Saint-Barnabé-Nord from 1907 to 1910. 1918 1927 2 Alphonse de Charette 1927 1933 3 Hermile Gélinas 1933 1937 4 Wilfrid Bellemare 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) 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 Martin Lafrenière, Guy Diamond quittera la mairie de Charette, Le Nouvelliste, September 6, 2013 14 Claude Boulanger 2013 Martin Lafrenière, Claude Boulanger veut redevenir maire de Charette, Le Nouvelliste, September 30, 2013 Current
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