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unusual facts about seigneurial system of New France


Seigneurial system of New France

The seigneurial system was formally abolished by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and assented to by Governor Lord Elgin on 18 December 1854 in An Act for the Abolition of Feudal Rights and Duties in Lower Canada.


Antoine-Charles Taschereau

He was born in Quebec City, the son of seigneur Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau and Louise-Françoise Juchereau Duchesnay who was the daughter of Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, and was educated at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal and the Séminaire de Nicolet.

David Ross McCord

He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord (1801-1865), Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross (1770-1837) Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage.

Eastern Townships

The land there was controlled by three English seigneurs: Colonel Henry Caldwell had purchased what had been the Foucault Seigneurie, which ran along the Richelieu River and a little over the present day frontier; Colonel Gabriel Christie was seigneur of Noyan; and Thomas Dunn was seigneur of Saint-Armand.

Étienne Duchesnois

In 1797, he married Josette Massue, the daughter of the seigneur of Varennes, Gaspard Massue, and the sister of Aignan-Aimé Massue and Louis Massue.

Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière

Louis-Eustache Chartier de Lotbinière (December 14, 1688 – February 12, 1749), Seigneur de Lotbinière; Councillor of the Sovereign Council of New France; Keeper of the Seals of New France; Vicar-General, Archdeacon and the first Canadian Dean of Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral, Quebec.

Henry Stanislas Harwood

Born at the Manor of Vaudreuil, Quebec, the eldest son of Robert Unwin Harwood and Marie-Louise-Josephte Chartier de Lotbiniere (1803–1869), Seigneuress of Vaudreuil, the eldest daughter of Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbiniere, de jure 2nd Marquis de Lotbiniere.

Jacques Dorion

In 1824, he married Catherine-Louise Lovell, niece of seigneur Charles-Louis-Roch de Saint-Ours.

Kamouraska Regional County Municipality

One of the people instrumental in settling and developing this area was Pascal Taché, an early seigneur.

Louis Juchereau de St. Denis

His mother, Marie Thérèse Giffard de Beauport, was the daughter of Robert Giffard de Moncel, Sieur de Moncel à Autheuil, and the 1st Seigneur of Beauport, Quebec.

Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière

Michel-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière, 1st Marquis de Lotbinière (1723–1798), Seigneur of Vaudreuil, Lotbinière and Rigaud, Quebec etc.

Rimouski

Originally from Ouanne in the Burgundy region, he exchanged property he owned on the Île d'Orléans with Augustin Rouer de la Cardonnière for the Seigneurie of Rimouski, which extended along the St. Lawrence River from the Hâtée River at Le Bic to the Métis River.

Saint-Elzéar, Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec

Founded in 1855, it was named in tribute to Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay, seigneur of neighbouring Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce.

Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec

The territory was once part of the seigneurial system in the 18th century and was travelled by several coureur des bois for the fur industry as well as workers in the logging industry as it was located nearby rich forest lands of the Laurentians and the Haute Mauricie regions near the Saint-Maurice River.

Société Notre-Dame de Montréal

In March 1663, Seigniorial rights to the Island of Montreal were transferred by the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal to the Sulpicians.

Le Royer de la Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal to establish a Roman Catholic mission for evangelizing natives.

William Bent Berczy

In 1832, he settled on the property at Sainte-Mélanie-d'Ailleboust of his wife, Louise-Amélie Panet, who had inherited it from her father, seigneur Pierre-Louis Panet.


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