Disraeli
It is named in honor of Benjamin Disraeli in 1904.
November 19, 1953 Erection of the village of Disraeli.
November 28, 1969 The village changes name to Disraeli
March 29, The village of Disraeli becomes the city of Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli ( December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881), is a British author and politician, twice named Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It plays a central role in the of the modern Conservative party creation which he formalized the doctrine. By his great influence on foreign policy, he associated the Conservatives to the glory and power of the British Empire.
Born in London to a Jewish Benjamin family,Disraeli was raised in the Anglican faith because his father is in conflict with his synagogue. He began a law career but turned to politics in the 1830s and was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Maidstone in 1837. When the Conservatives took power in 1841, Disraeli does not include the government of Prime Minister Robert Peel.
Five years later, Peel divides the party requesting the repeal of the Corn Laws that limited grain imports: it is violently attacked by Disraeli. Few notable conservatives break with Peel and Disraeli becomes an important figure in the party although many are wary of him. It is three times Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the House of Commons in the Lord Derby firms in 1850 and 1860. He developed during this period a strong rivalry with the Liberal William Ewart Gladstone.
When resigns for Derby health reasons in February 1868 Disraeli became prime minister but lost the elections at the end of the year. He represents the Opposition before leading his party to victory in 1874. He developed a strong friendship with Queen Victoria who made Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876.
Disraeli's second term was dominated by the Eastern Question, denoting the decline of the Ottoman empire and the actions of other European countries, including Russia, to enjoy. It grows and British interests to take shares in the company of the Suez Canal in Ottoman Egypt. In 1878, before the Russian victories against the Ottomans, Disraeli led the British delegation at the Berlin Congress and negotiate favorable terms in the UK.
Although Disraeli is commended for his actions in Berlin, other events affect support for his Government: the wars in Afghanistan and South Africa are criticized, and angers British farmers by refusing to restore the Corn Laws. Gladstone led a successful campaign and the Liberal Party won the elections of 1880.
Author of several novels since 1826, Benjamin Disraeli published his last work, Endymion, shortly before his death at the age of 76 years-.
Municipality of Disraeli
area 6, 47 km2.
1881 Opening of a post office under the name of Black Creek Lake and D'Israeli.
1882 appointed first resident priest of the parish of Sainte-Luce.
1883 (January 1) Constitution of the township municipality of Disraeli .
1884 Opening of the records of the parish Sainte-Luce.
1889 (August 26) canonical erection of Sainte-Luce its territory covers part of Garthby townships and Stratford(Turkey).
beginning of the twentieth century Arrival of immigrants from Mardin they are the Syriac Orthodox rite Catholics.
1904 Construction of a dam 15 m high on the River Aylmer. (November 19) Constitution of the village municipality of D'Israëli by detachment of the canton of Disraeli.
1923 population of the parish of 2400 souls.
1944 (27 August) Foundation of the Caisse populaire de Disraeli.
1953 township municipality of Disraeli becomes that of the parish of Disraeli.
1969 (March 29) the village of Disraeli becomes city.
1986 Construction of the Jules Allard dam.
1990 the population of Disraeli (city) is 3 004 inhabitants, that of Disraeli (parish) 1 044 
2000 the population of Disraeli (city) is 2 661 inhabitants, that of Disraeli (parish), 062.
1,2004 (September 12) the working conditions of proposals made by the furniture manufacturer Shermag are rejected by 87% of its unionized employees. (25 September) Start of a major strike of furniture employees; Shermag company the company announces that it will not reopen its plant and it will send a notice of layoff its 245 employees. (October 3) By a vote of 57%, employees strike Shermag accept the offers they had refused to 87% on 12 September last. (October 18) The company cancels the notice of layoff and resumed production with a reduced number of employees.
2007 (12 February) Affirming unable to meet competition from Asian manufacturers, the manufacturing of furniture Shermag announces the closure of its plant room furniture room of Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon (Lévis) and its plant in bedroom furniture bedroom Disraeli and the layoff of 250 union members who work in these factories.
Benjamin Disraeli
2010 population Disraeli (city) is 2 55 inhabitants, that of Disraeli (parish), 1 053.
History of Disraeli.
Thanks to The Historical Society Disraeli especially to Jean-Claude Fortier for his help.
The arrival of the first inhabitants of our parish dates back to the late 1850s, a time when the Eastern Townships' open to French-Canadians and where the lordships of the St Lawrence valley dump their surplus population in unoccupied lands of our regions, we archives inform Frederick Dawson in 1855 and Olivier Miray in 1857 had settled around Lake Breeches, but these first occupants have left no trace of their coming.
We must wait until 1868 before a 16 year old entrepreneur John Champoux, a native of St-Grégoire Nicolet, son of Octave and Champoux Alixe Bergeron, finding the site of the Bulls' Head Falls (Falls today Champoux) conducive to the establishment of a sawmill, buys the provincial government the right to operate the hydroelectric power. This right is granted provided that it installs a flour mill to accommodate farmers who establish it.
This was done in 1870. Two years later, John Champoux, in association with his brothers Alexander, David, Calixte Pétrus and built a hydraulic sawmill near the falls. Co. Champoux is based. It will guide the economy Disraeli until 1912 (year of its purchase by Cie Brompton.) Giving the book an important part of the local workforce and opening a first general store to accommodate in various products, all of the newly installed population areas.
of Disraeli colonization will be based on two main Lambton Road (road towards St. Praxedes) and Breeches (road towards St-Jacques-le-Majeur.) In 1873 Onésime Fortier opens the rank of Lambton. Follow Simeon Alexis and Charles Gagnon. Jules Roy will join them in 1879. David Binette install in 1874 a trade on the Way Lambton (Champoux Street). From 1877, a group of families settled in Breeches lake.
It is the Catellier, the Won, the Giroux, the Faucher, the Thibodeau, the St Lawrence and the Gosselin. These families come from the Lotbinière region and the Ile d'Orléans. In 1878, Antoine Lapointe Ste-Hénédine opens the second part of the V1 row. Stephen Adams, the first master station, arriving from Pennsylvania, moved his general store on 1st Street (Laurier.).
The first Mass was celebrated in 1878 in the home of Honoré Morin (the first owner of Disraeli) by Abbe Beaugrand-Champagne, parish priest of St-Gabriel-de-Stratford. The Francoeur priests Stratford Blanchard Weedon and Plant Garthby ensure alternately 
religious services until 1884. The service will be known as the Ste-Luce name Stratford or St. Luce Garthby before becoming Ste-Luce of Disraeli in 1924).
the installation(1879 - We could divide the history of Disraeli in two major steps. The first, qualified installation, going from 1879 (year of construction of the station and of the application for the erection of the chapel) until 1924 (the year of the first church fire). . This period was marked by the omnipresence of the forest industry in the economic life of Disraeli
This activity is favored by two essential means of transport: the St. Francis River, allowing the log drive thousands of logs to mills saw and paper, and the railroad (1879) that makes the transportation of processed products. railway sleepers, saplings (planks), boxes and wooden buckets (Disraeli Box) to the domestic and international markets
three major events occurred in 1883 will give a major boost to the organization of the parish. It will first formalization of the township municipality of Disraeli and the election of the first mayor John Champoux (2 February). Second, the formation of the school board (16 July), the first teacher was Miss Fecteau had his class on the 1st street (Laurier) and finally the blessing of the first church (13 November) and the arrival of his parish priest Fr. AD Jobin. The rectory will be built in 1891. It will give the parish Ste-Luce name in honor of Sr. St. Lucia, top of Mount Notre Dame of Sherbrooke, who had rendered valuable service to the diocese.
The municipality, which was known at the beginning under the name Black Creek will receive, in 1877, the name of Disraeli in memory of Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield 1804-1881), Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1868, the year of the arrival of our founder. The first acts enrolled in parish registers were: - First Baptism: January 13, 1884, Joseph, Peter, Alfred Déry, son of Louis François Déry, merchant and Cédulie Desnoyers. - First burials: January 27, 1884: Joseph Edmond Fortin (2 days) son of Severus Fortin and Roy Zoe. - January 28, 1884: William Jalbert said Carleton (52) husband of Resina LangisVallières..
First marriage:April 22, 1884: Napoleon and Aurore Côté In 1897, the parish will donate land for the construction of the convent and the Ste-Luce school that will be entrusted to the nuns of Saints Names of Jesus and of Mary who will lead it over the a housewife school years (1944) then a normal school for girls. 
in terms of the first college, it was not until 1907 to see its construction in 1919 to attend the arrival of the FF Marist who will lead the institution until 'in 1969, the transfer to the high school comprehensive school Disraeli. Religious people abandon the education sector in Disraeli to 1985.
During that time, the economy is organized, punctuated with the seasons. In winter, a large number of loggers go in the forest, in the yards of the region, making the timber that will, come spring, led to local sawmills or paper mills Coy Brompton. A significant team of skilled loggers, assisted by four boat log drive (steamboats) Tobin, Wilson, McRae and the Navy, will lead this wood in St-Gérard and from there, following the course of the river St- François, to paper mills Coy Brompton.
in summer, many of these lumberjacks and loggers will turn into people and cultivate their small plot of land. Others go to work in Co. Champoux or in the sawmills established near the lake. Around 1892, the Parent Co. and Brothers (Joseph and Honoré) opens factory doors and chassis that will work under this name until 1925 and then as the Parent and Vachon from 1925 to 1930. The company will specialize in the church furnishings. The factory will fire, rebuilt and sold to Adélard Lehoux.
The population and industrial production is increasing rapidly, it becomes urgent to provide new services to the height of this development. We first thought to facilitate access to the village for families in the Breeches sector. In 1879, the ferry (ferry boat Vilmaire Mr. Brousseau) based since 1877, which served as a link between the two shores of Lake Aylmer, will be replaced by a wooden bridge arriving on rue Jobin. In 1908, we will build the current bridge overlooking the St. Joseph Street. In 1904 the campaign stands out from the village to form a separate administrative entity. Around 1900, the Provincial Bank opens branch in Disraeli.
Disraeli Telephone Co. was founded in 1914 by PA Labrecque, Pierre Létourneau and Alphonse, who invited the neighboring parishes Garthby, Stratford and St-Jacques, to take part. This first period was marked by a series of major fires that will transform the face of the village. In 1907, it is an important sector of the 1st street (Laurier) that goes up in smoke. A few years later, in 1911, the street Champoux, in turn, is in flames.
Stories
Several shops and homes are completely destroyed. The absence of fire service and the need to seek the assistance of firefighters from Sherbrooke or Thedford partly explain these disasters.
The fire of the first church on 25 April 1924, the present church reconstruction in 1926 and the move of the presbytery in 1927 will mark the end of the first period. On 11 May 1924 the churchwardens vote unanimously, with the support of the population, reconstruction of the church. Designed by architect Sherbrooke, Louis Audet, current measurement church 180 'long by 71' wide. The belfry (head of the cross at ground level) height is 153 '. Plans call for 966 seats. The work was entrusted to the contractor Dion & Bonin, also of Sherbrooke, for the sum of $ 117,000.
The granite stone used came from St-Samuel careers. The organ was ordered from the Canadian Organ Company of St-Hyacinthe for the sum of $ 2.600. Three bells were ordered at a cost of $ 3.120 to the European house connection through an importer of Quebec. This trio, with a total weight of 4,691 lbs, was consecrated and "baptized" as follows at its blessing Bell FA: 2,085 lbs - Pius XI, Paul, Osias. Bell SOL: 1,538 lbs - Joseph Amedee, George. THE bell: 1,068 lbs -Marie, Luce, Alphonsus Liguori. The cornerstone of the blessing ceremony of the new building took place on October 12 1924.
It was placed in the corner of the central door of the wall side of the epistle (Villa Lavoie) The first Mass sung in this church not yet over Christmas was celebrated there in 1925. the official blessing of the church with its organ and its three bells was made on July 25, 1926. (See: Lee parish bulletin of the Christian community Ste-Luce, 25 juin1989 Disraeli. ) diversification (1930 -2002) the second step in the evolution of Disraeli goes from 1930 to the present. It begins with 10 years of stagnation caused by the Great Economic Crisis (1929-1939), followed by a recovery in favor of the war. This revival will bring home diversification and industrial modernization.
The timber trade and the log drive will resume. The elders 'steamboats' will be replaced by 'Tugboats', faster and more efficient. Older people still remember the particular sound of these vessels when approached loggers camp located off of Disraeli, towards Stratford. Log drives ended around 1960. The loggers' camp was demolished and boats disappeared.
The Quebec Central Railway remains, at this time, the main means of transport. Every day, four passenger trains by Disraeli. Two towards Sherbrooke and two in the direction of Quebec, not counting the many freight trains that supply Disraeli and his in-region of all kinds.
The spread of the automobile and the truck as means of transport will cause the death of way iron in the region. In 1969, the QCR cease his service station, which had been since its inception, a major focus will be demolished. In 1934, the City Council will lease the parish hall Jacques-Cartier, located on the site of the current city hall, Mr. Louis De Luca, for there to establish a manufactory of clothes and overcoats. This industry, more modern, employ up to 50 workers. This will be the first company to employ a female workforce. Unfortunately, the flames completely destroy the building on November 18, 1947.
Eight hundred winter coats had to be shipped the next day. Losses were estimated at $ 100,000. In 1940, Messrs. Romeo Goudreau and Gerard Dubreuil open a factory that will produce soft drinks, among other drinks Cocktail Melody and Opera.
In 1934 born the agricultural cooperative of Disraeli, followed ten years later by the Caisse populaire Desjardins. In 1944, the municipality will sell its new parish hall, located at the corner of St. Joseph and St. Francis, Mr. Emile Gosselin who establish a furniture factory. The industry will, subsequently, in turn owned by the Beaudoin family, Marius Ouellet, the Radisson group and finally Coy Shermag. Today is the main employer of Disraeli and furniture manufactured in this factory are sold across Canada and the United States. Above 200 people work there now. The year 1945 will be marked by an unprecedented industrial development.
Three factories settled here.
This is first of the "Quebec Woodenware Limited" Welcome to the family property (former owners of the Disraeli Box). The plant will produce buckets and wooden boxes. Then the brothers Gagné (Roland, Romeo and Gérard) will establish a manufacture of doors and windows. The industry will be known under the name "R. Brothers and won Rec.
. "Finally,Gerard Clark opens a small manufacturing company lath and bars. The end of the Second World War and the economic boom that followed lead to strong demand for metal and non-metallic metals. This sudden need promote the opening of new asbestos and copper mines in the region. Several among us workers, attracted by high wages find work in the asbestos mines of Black Lake and Coleraine.
The copper mine Solbec Stratford opens and gives the book to several workers of Disraeli, and more attract a significant amount of people from Abitibi. This new economic prosperity will contribute to the development of the municipality. The new areas will be added. This is the case of Gervais district, towards Coleraine, and Dion neighborhood on the other side of the bridge to St-Jacques.
Disraeli asserts itself increasingly as a small regional center. A variety of services appears: Couture Cinema in 1946 aims to be a place of entertainment very popular with young people in the region. Roller skates halls and bowling will complement this component. School regionalization of 1965 will make possible the construction of the comprehensive school of Disraeli, bringing together high school students from ten surrounding municipalities.
La Cie Setlakwe Thetford buy the old haberdashery and Anto Zako and will implant in Disraeli. In 1969, Ste-Luce convent will be demolished and replaced by the Foyer de Disraeli, a seniors residence. The field of the industry will also be transformed. In order to attract new factories, the city will develop an industrial sector, located on Highway 112, towards Beaulac.
The Nutech plant and JG Landry companies will settle. An industrial motel will even see the day. Ste-Luce parish of Disraeli will absorb the parishes St. Praxedes and St. Jacques -The Maggiore. Now is the turn of Disraeli priest ensure religious services at St. Gabriel Stratford St Charles Borromeo Beaulac. However, the City of Disraeli, like other municipalities in the region and everywhere across Quebec today witnessing helplessly falling and aging population.
A school (St. Antoine), which once housed dozens of students exchange and vocation is transformed into a community center. Older people's homes are born: Le Foyer St-Rosaire, Foyer Disraeli and more recently the Rose Garden (2001). The Office Municipal d'Habitation Disraeli will build two HLM: The Golden Connections in 1985 and Domisiladore in 1990. A desire to regain control and rejuvenation is however increasingly perceptible built.
In 1976, the city arena nearby comprehensive school. The Chamber of Commerce is reborn and realizes the Marina in 1996. Citizen groups (Berges Newly who plan to develop the banks of the river) form, ready to invest in the economic, social and cultural environment. A community newspaper (The Cantonnier) was created in 1999. This leads us to believe that the motto of Disraeli "From progressu in progressum" is still alive
