Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Quebec

Saint-Étienne-des-Grès () is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.

Local points of interest include La Gabelle Generating Station, a power plant completed in 1924.

Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Étienne-des-Grès had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Government The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. Saint-Étienne-des-Grès has had almost thirty different mayors.Souvenances, Histoire du fief et de la paroisse de depuis 1673, page 191

List of former mayors:

François Carbonneau (1855–1858) Luc Pellerin (1858–1862) François Dargis (1862–1867) Jean-Baptiste Beauchemin (1867–1867) Odilon Larcousière (1868–1869) Euchariste Grenier (1870–1870) Joseph Comeau (1870–1872) Uldoric Brunelle (1872–1874, 1887–1900) Augustin Milette (1875–1877) Simon J. Remington (1877–1884) Joseph Ringuette (1884–1886) Charles Milot (1901–1903) Étienne Laroche (1904–1907) François ChrétienChrétien was the grandfather of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. See: Lawrence Martin, Chrétien, The Will to Win, Volume 1, page 12 (1907–1910, 1914–1927) Joseph-Edmond Lemire (1910–1914) J.-Félix Saint-Onge (1927–1929) Joseph Marcotte (1929–1937) Anselme Bourassa (1937–1953) J.-Arthur Lemire (1953–1965, 1968–1973) Louis-Philippe Plourde (1965–1967) Louis-Alphonse Bournival (1967–1968) Roger Bellemare (1973–1975) Joseph Duplessis (1975–1977) Jules Bellemare (1977–1989) François Chénier (1989–2001, 2005–2008)Chénier resigned before the completion of his four-year term. See: Le maire Chénier claque la porte, Info 690, January 15, 2008 Luc Massé (2001–2005) Robert Landry (2008–2021) Robert Landry élu maire, Radio-Canada, April 25, 2008 Nancy Mingault (2021–2025) Jocelyn Isabelle (2025–current)

Officially, municipal elections in Saint-Étienne-des-Grès are on a non-partisan basis.

Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Quebec

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