Charette, Quebec
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
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|settlement_type = Municipality
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|map_caption = Location within Maskinongé RCM.
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|pushpin_map_caption = Location in central Quebec.
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|subdivision_type = Country
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|subdivision_type1 = Province
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|subdivision_name2 = Mauricie
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|subdivision_name3 = Maskinongé
|established_title = Settled
|established_date = c. 1875
|established_title1 = Constituted
|established_date1 = February 9, 1918
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|leader_title = Mayor
|leader_name = Claude Boulanger
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|leader_name1 = Berthier—Maskinongé
|leader_title2 = Prov. riding
|leader_name2 = Maskinongé
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|area_footnotes = Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire - [http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca/repertoire-des-municipalites/fiche/municipalite/51080/ Répertoire des municipalités: Charette] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716144506/http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca/repertoire-des-municipalites/fiche/municipalite/51080/ |date=2014-07-16 }}
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|area_total_km2 = 42.20
|area_land_km2 = 41.90
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|population_total = 1034
|population_as_of = 2021
|population_density_km2 = 24.7
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|population_blank1 = {{increase}} 8.5%
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|population_blank2_title= Dwellings
|population_blank2 = 519
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|timezone = EST
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|postal_code_type = Postal code(s)
|postal_code = G0X 1E0
|area_code = 819
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|website = {{URL|www.municipalite-charette.ca|www.municipalite
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Charette ({{IPA|fr|ʃaʁɛt|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Fralambert-Charette.wav}}) 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/CT/toposweb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=12404 |title=Charette (Municipalité) |accessdate=2010-01-26 |publisher=Commission de toponymie du Québec |language=French}}
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:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census
- 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.Source: Patricia Adam, Deputy General Manager of the Municipality of Charette Officially, municipal elections in Charette are on a non-partisan basis.
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| bgcolor=#cccccc | # | bgcolor=#cccccc | Mayor | bgcolor=#cccccc | Taking Office | bgcolor=#cccccc | 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
| 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 |
| 14
| Claude Boulanger | Current |
References
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Charette, Quebec}}
{{Geographic location
| Centre = Charette
| North = Saint-Élie-de-Caxton
| Northeast = Saint-Boniface
| East =
| Southeast = Saint-Barnabé
| South = Saint-Sévère
| Southwest = Saint-Léon-le-Grand
| West = Saint-Paulin
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{{Maskinongé RCM|state=expanded}}
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