Lifelong Calumet Island resident Chantal Corriveau was elected to be the seat three councillor for that municipality in a Nov. 3 byelection.
The seat became vacant after former councillor Pierre Jolicoeur passed away in July of this year.
“They needed a replacement and there was nobody coming forward so I just decided that at the last minute,” Corriveau said, describing her Oct. 18 decision to enter her name in the race. The only other candidate running for the seat was Francine Tremblay.
Of the 605 residents of the Municipality of L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet eligible to vote, only 232 cast a vote, according to the municipality’s director general Tracey Hérault. Corriveau won 168 of the votes cast, Tremblay won 62, and two votes were rejected.
“I went door-to-door, talked to people, but didn’t promise anything, because [I’m] only a replacement and I don’t know exactly what the municipality has planned for the rest of the year,” Corriveau said. “I just promised just to be there, simple as that, because they really needed a replacement.”
Corriveau works part-time as a mail delivery driver for Canada Post and part-time for the Pontiac Home Bakery in Shawville. She has also worked for Les Maisons des jeunes du Pontiac, for the Réseau BIBLIO de l’Outaouais, and has volunteered with the Calumet Island Recreation Association for over two decades.
She said it’s too soon to say whether she’ll run in the municipal elections in Nov. 2025, but will consider it.
“I’m going to see what it looks like now, see if I don’t get in too much trouble there, but yeah maybe. I’ll decide that at the last minute.”
