Lac-à-la-Tortue is a small community of 2,500 inhabitants in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. Formerly a separate municipality, it has been one of the seven sectors of the city of Shawinigan since the municipal amalgamation

Municipal reorganization in Quebec

The most recent episode of municipal reorganization in Quebec, Canada, was undertaken in 2002 by the Parti Québécois Government of Quebec, headed by Premier Lucien Bouchard and his successor Bernard Landry....

 of January 1, 2002. The name Lac-a-la-Tortue is French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

for Turtle Lake.

Mayors

From 1895 to 2001, Lac-à-la-Tortue had its own mayor and its own city council. The mayors were:

#	Mayor	Taking Office	Leaving
1	Onésime L’Heureux	1895	1901
2	Samuel Buisson	1901	1907
3	Phydime Simard	1907	1910
4	J.-E. Collin	1910	1916
5	Isidore Bernier	1916	1917
6	Philippe Parenteau	1917	1919
7	Sinaï Lupien	1919	1923
8	L.-P. Marchand	1923	1929
7	Sinaï Lupien	1929	1933
9	Pierre Matton	1933	1937
7	Sinaï Lupien	1937	1939
10	Émile Beaudoin	1939	1945
7	Sinaï Lupien	1945	1949
11	Henri-J. Dubois	1949	1953
12	Julien Massicotte	1953	1969
13	Achille Lajoie	1969	1975
14	Réjean Petit	1975	1979
15	Martial Grenier	1979	1983
16	Jacques Longpré	1983	1985
17	Gaston Demers	1985	1987
16	Jacques Longpré	1987	1991
18	Bernard Cayouette	1991	2001