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The seigneur was an important person in New France. He was given a large section of land (seigneury) by the king and was expected to rent sections of it to ...
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The seigneurs of New France had the right to hold courts for the settlement of disputes among their tenantry, but they rarely availed themselves of this privilege because, owing to the sparseness of the population in most of the seigneuries, the fines and fees did not produce enough income to make such a procedure...
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Seigneurial system, an institutional form of land distribution and occupation established in NEW FRANCE in 1627 and officially abolished in 1854. It was inspired by the feudal ... The state established regulations to govern the operation of this system and the relationship between the seigneurs and their tenants.
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France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napoléon Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. ... In 1608 Samuel de CHAMPLAIN, considered the founder of New France, erected a habitation (building) at...
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Life in New France ... The land in New France was divided into seigneuries. The man in charge of a seigneury was called a seigneur. He would divide up his seigneury into strips of land and would keep a large section for himself and his family.
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Life of a Coureur de Bois; The Fur Trade in New France: Les Coureurs des Bois (version française);; The Fur Trade in New France: Voyageurs and Hired Men (version française);; Hudson Bay and NorthWest Companies...
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The feudal system of landholding, which had long been established in France, was adopted in the colony. The nobles, in this case the seigneurs, ... In underpopulated New France the habitants welcomed the fact that the seigneur was obligated to build a mill. They had no military duties to perform except their common...
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The settlement, which proved a dismal failure, was the first of a series of efforts by France to persuade various leaders to set up colonies in Canada in return for an official monopoly of the fur trade. Pierre Chauvin in 1600 established a trading post at Tadoussac, on the St. Lawrence River. ... The Father of New France...
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The de Ramezay family, seigneurs of Sorel in the First half of the eighteenth century, particularly the widow, Charlotte de Ramezay, were among the foremost producers of wood in New France; they furnished, for example, much of the timber used in the ship yards of Quebec City.
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