Disraeli, Quebec (city)
The city of Disraeli is located in the Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,570 as of 2009. It was named after British statesman and writer Benjamin Disraeli.
The city of Disraeli forms an enclave in the territory of the parish of Disraeli and the two are separate legal entities.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Disraeli had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.Architecture
The Church of Sainte-Luce was built between 1924 and 1926. It was designed by Louis-Napoléon Audet, an architect mainly active in the Sherbrooke region. This building replaced an earlier church that was destroyed in a fire on April 25, 1924. The original presbytery, built between 1890 and 1891, is still standing. The church's cemetery contains a dead house and a calvary. A grotto also commemorates the Lourdes apparitions.In terms of residential architecture, houses constructed in the 19th century are found on Champoux Street and East Saint-Joseph Street. Other residential buildings from the same period are present in the neighbouring parish of Disraeli.