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Author Noël, Françoise, 1952-

Title The Christie seigneuries : estate management and settlement in the Upper Richelieu Valley, 1760-1854 / Françoise Noël
Published Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Series Studies on the history of Quebec, 1183-4382
Studies on the history of Quebec. 1183-4382
Contents Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Aftermath of the Conquest: Gabriel Christie, 1763�1777 -- 2 Uncertainty and Consolidation, 1777�1799 -- 3 The Upper Richelieu Valley, 1783�1814 -- 4 Growing Tensions, 1815�1835 -- 5 A Troubled Inheritance -- 6 A Just Stewardship, 1835�1845 -- 7 Diversity and Development, 1845�1854 -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: The Upper Richelieu Valley Database -- Appendix II: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F
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Summary During the period following New France's fall to the British, Lieutenant-Colonel Gabriel Christie acquired five seigneuries in the Upper Richelieu Valley. They continued to belong to the Christie family until well after the end of seigneurial tenure. Seigneurial property rights were used, Noël shows, to control access to land, timber, mill sites, and other resources. Because of the increasing importance of these resources in the colonial economy, the seigneury itself began to have a more important impact on the social structure of the colony. Significant changes in the management of the Christie Seigneuries came with each generation of the family -- changes that reflected the personality of the seigneur and the changing socio-economic conditions. There was, however, a persistent preoccupation with capitalist exploitation of the seigneur's domain property. Accordingly, Noël maintains, seigneurial tenure during the century of British colonial administration was important not so much because of its differences from freehold tenure but because of its similarities: it could be used by large proprietors to monopolize scarce resources. The role of entrepreneurial seigneurs in Lower Canada's socio-economic development is thus only one variation of the many forms of interaction between traditional rural economies and the great merchants of the staples trades -- a historical phenomenon common to all of British North America. Noël also contends that the relationship between seigneur and censitaire was paternalistic, operating in much the same way as the paternalism found elsewhere in British North America under other forms of tenure. This is a break from conventional English-Canadian historiography, which sees seigneurial tenure as one of the major distinguishing characteristics of Quebec's history. The Christie Seigneuries is one of the few studies in English on the last century of seigneurial tenure in Canada, and one of the few to examine a seigneury run by the laity rather than by ecclesiastics. Putting the seigneuries in a wider context benefits both the history of the seigneury and the history of pre-industrial Canada
Analysis Social life
Québec (Province)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Christie Familie gnd
Subject Seigniorial tenure -- Québec (Province) -- Richelieu River Valley -- History
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
HISTORY -- Canada -- Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
Grundeigentum
Rivieren.
Ontginning.
Boerderijen.
SUBJECT Richelieu River Valley (N.Y. and Vt.-Québec) -- History
Subject North America -- Richelieu River Valley
Oberer-Richelieu-Tal
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773563162
0773563164
1282855743
9781282855748
9786612855740
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