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Rimouski Seignory
The Rimouski Seignory () was a seignory during the French colonisation of New France. It was located in the present-day Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec. History The Rimouski Seignory was first granted to by the Marquis de Denonville, governor of New France, on April 24, 1688. Augustin did not work on developing the seignory, and only used the territory for fishing. Jean Bochart de Champigny, Intendant of New France, was unhappy with seignors in Bas-Saint-Laurent who did not work towards the development of their seignories. He looked for new seignors who would develop the seignories by using them for farming. Thus René Lepage de Sainte-Claire became the owner of the seignory of Rimouski by exchanging it for his land on the Island of Orleans with Augustin Rouer on July 10, 1694. Territory At the time of its granting in 1688 the Rimouski Seignory measured two leagues along the Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (, ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seigneurial System Of New France
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 wealth gap between Quebec and other parts of Canada in the 19th and early 20th century to the persistent adverse impact of the seigneurial system. Both in nominal and legal terms, all French territorial claims in North America belonged to the French king. French monarchs did not impose feudal land tenure on New France, and the king's actual attachment to these lands was virtually non-existent. Instead, landlords were allotted land holdings known as manors and presided over the French colonial agricultural system in North America. The first grant of manorial land tenure in New France was awarded to Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just in 1604, with the Seigneury of Port Royal in Acadia. This grant was reaffirmed by King Henry IV of France on February 25, 160 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New France
New France (, ) was the territory colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and History of Spain (1700–1808), Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris (1763), Treaty of Paris. A vast viceroyalty, New France consisted of five colonies at its peak in 1712, each with its own administration: Canada (New France), Canada, the most developed colony, which was divided into the districts of Quebec (around what is now called Quebec City), Trois-Rivières, and Montreal; Hudson Bay; Acadia in the northeast; Terre-Neuve (New France), Terre-Neuve on the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland; and Louisiana (New France), Louisiana. It extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian Prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, including all the Great Lakes of North America. The continent-traversing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rimouski-Neigette Regional County Municipality
Rimouski-Neigette () is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. The county seat is in Rimouski. Subdivisions There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) * Rimouski ;Municipalities (1) * Esprit-Saint ;Parishes (7) * La Trinité-des-Monts * Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard * Saint-Eugène-de-Ladrière * Saint-Fabien * Saint-Marcellin * Saint-Narcisse-de-Rimouski * Saint-Valérien ;Unorganized Territory (1) * Lac-Huron Demographics Population Language Transportation Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: *Autoroutes ** *Principal Highways ** *Secondary Highways ** ** *External Routes **None See also * List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec This is a list of the regional county municipalities (RCM or MRC) and equivalent territories (TE) in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bas-Saint-Laurent
The Bas-Saint-Laurent (, 'Lower Saint-Lawrence) is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlantic Ocean and is often nicknamed ''"Bas-du-Fleuve"'' (Lower-River). The region is formed by eight regional county municipality, regional county municipalities and 114 types of municipalities in Quebec, municipalities. In the south, it borders Maine of the United States, and the Canadian New Brunswick and the regions of Chaudière-Appalaches and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine. It had a population of 199,039 and a land area of as of the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census. The territory has evidence of human occupation since the Pleistocene by successive indigenous peoples. The historic First Nations in Canada, First Nations occupied it all until European colonisation started in the late 17th century; France made land concessions to settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blason René Lepage De Ste-Claire
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is , and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. This form of poetry was used extensively by Elizabethan-era poets. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, ironically rejecting each prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bochart De Champigny
Jean Bochart de Champigny, Sieur de Noroy et de Verneuil (; 1643–September 27, 1720), was Intendant of New France from 1686 to 1702. His mandate was one of the longest, rivalling those of Hocquart and Bégon. He served as intendant during the terms of Governors Denonville, Frontenac, and Callière, and was in office at the time of King William's War, the Lachine Massacre, the Battle of Quebec, and the Great Peace of Montreal. Early life Jean Bochart de Champigny was born in 1643 in France, the son of Jean Bochart de Champigny (Intendant of Rouen) and Marie Boivin. Little is known about his life before his appointment as intendant, however, it is likely that he was educated at a Jesuit college, studied law, and had held a number of minor administrative posts in France. He married Marie-Madeleine de Chaspoux, Dame de Verneuil et Du Plessis-Savari. Intendant of New France Champigny was appointed as Intendant of New France by Louis XIV on April 24, 1686. He embarked from La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intendant Of New France
The Intendant of New France was an Public administration, administrative position in the French colony of New France. He controlled the colony's entire civil administration. He gave particular attention to settlement and economic development, and to the administration of justice. The office of the Intendant of New France was created by Louis XIV. In 1663, Louis and his minister decided to give New France a new constitution. The charter of the Company of One Hundred Associates, One Hundred Associates was cancelled and the old Council of Quebec, which was formed in 1647, reorganized and became the Sovereign Council of New France. The Sovereign Council was composed of the governor, the bishop, the intendant, an attorney-general, a secretary, and five councillors. Because the Intendant of New France managed the financial matters like money and so on, as well as the infrastructure of the colony, he had an enormous amount of influence in the colony's government. Origin of position During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Lepage De Sainte-Claire
Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire (April 10, 1656, in Ouanne, Burgundy – August 4, 1718, in Rimouski, Quebec) is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. Origin Born close to Auxerre in Burgundy, René Lepage immigrated to New France, with his mother Reine Loury and his aunt Constance Lepage, between 1670 and 1674. There, he joined his father Germain and his uncle Louis, who were installed on grounds of the current parish of St-François, at the north-eastern point of the Île d'Orleans, close to Quebec City. On June 10, 1686, René Lepage married Marie-Madeleine Gagnon, 15 years old, with whom he had 17 children. Acquisition of Rimouski Like several of his fellow-citizens, René dreamt to build a great stronghold for his family. With this intention, he left the Île d'Orléans to go live on the coast. On March 17, 1693, the Governor of New France, Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac, conceded to him a ground in commoner's condition located behind stronghold of Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Île D'Orléans
Île d'Orléans (; ) is an island located in the Saint Lawrence River about east of downtown Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was one of the first parts of the province to be colonized by the French, and a large percentage of French Canadians can trace ancestry to early residents of the island. The island has been described as the "microcosm of traditional Quebec and as the birthplace of francophones in North America." It has about 7,000 inhabitants, spread over six villages. The island is accessible from the mainland via the Île d'Orléans Bridge from Beauport, Quebec, Beauport. Quebec Route 368, Route 368 is the sole provincial route on the island, which crosses the bridge and circles the perimeter of the island. At the village of Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec, Sainte-Pétronille toward the western end of the island, a viewpoint overlooks the impressive ''Chute Montmorency'' (Montmorency Falls), as well as a panorama of the St. Lawrence River and Quebec City. Geography The I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
