Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce is a city in the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population was 5,014 as of the Canada 2021 Census. The new city constitution dates from 1999, when the city of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce and the parish municipality of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce amalgamated. However, the territory was settled as a seigneurie in 1736 under Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, which makes it the oldest settlement in Beauce. In 1747, Vaudreuil would exchange it to Joseph de Fleury de La Gorgendière, who would initiate the development of the settlement. Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce is the seat of the judicial district of Beauce. Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce holds an annual Truck drag race event, the Accélération de camions à St-Joseph-de-Beauce (Big Rig Drag Racing) which established in 2004. It attracts over 25,000 visitors from all over Canada and much of the United States. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce 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. Notable people Henri Sévérin Béland, doctor, mayor and politician Vital Cliche, politician Junior Lessard, Deutsche Eishockey Liga player Raphaël Lessard, NASCAR driver Adrien Ouellette, politician Joseph Poirier, politician Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau, seigneur, judge and politician Thomas Linière Taschereau, lawyer, mayor and politician References Commission de toponymie du Québec Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches Cities and towns in Quebec Populated places established in 1736