title: Stratford, Quebec
text: # Stratford, Quebec
  
  Stratford is a township municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region in Quebec, Canada. A township municipality is all or part of the territory of a township (townships were originally only a land surveying feature) set up as a municipality.
  
  The first European settlers arrived in 1848. The town is named after Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
  
  The town contains Lake Elgin and part of Lake Aylmer.
  
  The population, almost entirely francophone, was 1,036 in the Canada 2021 Census.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stratford had a population of 1,036 living in 533 of its 946 total private dwellings, a change of 9.6% from its 2016 population of 945. With a land area of 119.86 $km^2$ (46.28 sq mi), it had a population density of $8.6/km^2$ (22.4/sq mi) in 2021.
  
  Previous census data:
  
  * Population in 1991: 785
  * Population in 1996: 786 (+0.1% from 1991)
  * Population in 2001: 873
  