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!colspan="19"|Canada Census mother tongue - Huntingdon, Quebec

  • Robert Brown Somerville (1848–1852)
  • John Morrisson (1852–1858)
  • Alexander Anderson (1858–1864)
  • Sitt Schuyler (1864–1866)
  • James Fortune (1866–1870)
  • Daniel Shanks (1870–1872)
  • Alexander Cameron (1872–1887, 1895–1898)
  • Daniel Boyd (1887–1893)
  • F. H. Henderson (1893–1895)
  • R. N. Walsh (1898–)
  • Andrew Philps (1904–1910)
  • Robert Crawford (1910–1913)
  • Thomas B. Pringle (1913–1922)
  • Dennis James O'Connor (1922–1931)
  • Walter Brown (1931–1933)
  • Gilbert Daniel Faubert (1933–1943)
  • Stanford Mc Nair (1943–1947)
  • Achille Picard (1947–1949)
  • Léo Capiello (1949–1959, 1965–1971)
  • Paul Lefebvre (1959–1965)
  • Claude Pilon (1971–1979)
  • Gérald Brisebois (1979–1995)
  • André Brunette (1995–2003)
  • Stéphane Gendron (2003–2013)
  • André Brunette (2013–present)

Infrastructure

Transportation

The CIT du Haut-Saint-Laurent formerly provided commuter and local bus service, until it was cut back to Ormstown and Sainte-Martine. Current service is provided by the Haut-Saint-Laurent regional county municipality.

Media

The town is served by a fortnightly English newspaper, The Gleaner, with a French section called, Le Gleaner. It was founded in 1863 by Robert Sellar (1841-1919) under the banner Canadian Gleaner, changing its name to the Huntington Gleaner in 1912. The Huntingdon Gleaner was owned by various family businesses for most of its history. Even though it was technically a private business, local ownership conveyed the title of ‘community newspaper’ as is typical across Canada. Eventually, the Huntingdon Gleaner added a French language section in 1993 called La Source (back-to-back format) and became known as The Gleaner/La Source. As consolidation in the print media began at the turn of this century, The Gleaner/La Source was sold by the local owner to what became a series of re-sales to various media chains: Les Hebdos Montérégiens in 1985, Quebecor in 2011 and finally Transcontinental in 2013. In 2015, The Gleaner/La Source ceased publication as a standalone newspaper, with The Gleaner becoming an 8-page insert in the regional free-distribution weekly Le Journal St-Francois (Valleyfield), and La Source being closed completely. In 2017, Transcontinental sold Le Journal St-Francois (including The Gleaner) to a regional media company, Gravité Média. In 2018, Gravité Média reached out to the English-speaking community in the Châteauguay Valley to see if there was any interest in acquiring the title. Rather than simply close The Gleaner, Gravité Média wanted to respect the heritage integral to the publication and provide the opportunity for the English-speaking community to continue to be served by a community newspaper. In November 2018, a public meeting was held in Ormstown, along with representatives from Gravité Média, to discuss the possibilities surrounding the community acquiring the rights to continue publishing The Gleaner.

From that meeting, a “Future of the Gleaner” steering committee was formed, followed shortly by the establishment of a non-profit organization the Chateauguay Valley Community Information Services and discussions were held with Gravité Media to acquire the assets of The Gleaner (title, web domain,  etc.) and a transfer agreement was signed in May 2019. In June 2019, The Gleaner was re-launched with a souvenir print version and a new website, followed by monthly editions in August, September, October and November 2019 and a fortnightly edition stating in January 2020.

See also

  • Electoral district
  • List of anglophone communities in Quebec
  • List of cities in Quebec

References

  • Huntingdon official website
  • Commission de la toponymie du Québec. Ville de Huntingdon