Its economy depends on forestry, as well as businesses and industries in Senneterre.

[4] Following the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway, the area opened up for colonization.

In 1915, he arrived with his family and employees, 68 people in all, to operate a sawmill that he had built on the banks of the Taschereau River, between Carpentier and Courville Lakes.

[1][4] In 1918, the place was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of Carpentier-et-Courville, but the settlement continued to be called Goulet.

[1][4] In 1962, it lost part of its territory when the Municipality of Champneuf was created.