Charette (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁɛt] ) is a municipality of about 1000 people located in Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada.
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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. Officially, municipal elections in Charette are on a non-partisan basis.