The manorial system of New France, known as the seigneurial system, was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire. Economic historians have attributed the
Boundaries of fiefs, including sub-fiefs, in Lower Canada (as charted in 1923)
St. Lawrence River by SPOT Satellite. "Long lots" can be discerned at the riverside.
Ribbon farms along the Detroit River in 1796, where modern Detroit and Windsor, Ontario now stand. Fort Detroit is on the north side of the river at center left, and Belle Isle is to the right.
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A seigneur or lord is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. The seigneur owned a seign
Jean de Poutrincourt of Port Royal, first seigneur in North America
