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Charette () is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...
of about 1000 people located in
Maskinongé Regional County Municipality Maskinongé is a regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Louiseville. It is located adjacent on the west of Trois-Rivières on the Saint Lawrence River. The population according to the 2016 Canadian Cens ...
, 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 Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie was a former regional county municipality and census division in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Prior to its dissolution, it consisted of: ;''Villes'' * Grand-Mère * Shawinigan * Shawinigan-Sud ;Municipalities ...
was dissolved.


Demographics

Population trend: * 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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{{authority control Incorporated places in Mauricie Municipalities in Quebec