Mitis Seignory

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Mitis Seignory

Mitis Seignory (Quebec)

The Mitis Seignory (French : seigneurie de Mitis) is a forest and wildlife territory located in La Mitis Regional County Municipality in eastern Quebec. It was a seignory during the French colonisation of New France.

French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.

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The manorial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire.

History

The Mitis Seignory was first granted to Jean-Baptiste de Peiras by the New France's governor, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, on May 6, 1675.^[1]

Louis de Buade de Frontenac Governor of New France

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of forts on the Great Lakes and engaged in a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois.

The Scottish Mathew MacNider acquired the seignory in 1802 and his brother, John MacNider, bought it in 1807.^[2] In fact the MacNider family was the owner of the Mitis Seignory for almost 50 years.^[3]

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Territory

At the time of its granting in 1675 the territory of the seignory measured two leagues along the Saint Lawrence River by two leagues away from the river.^[4] It is entirely included inside La Mitis Regional County Municipality in Bas-Saint-Laurent.

A league is a unit of length. It was common in Europe and Latin America, but is no longer an official unit in any nation. The word originally meant the distance a person could walk in an hour. Since the Middle Ages, many values have been specified in several countries.

The Saint Lawrence River is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. The Saint Lawrence River flows in a roughly north-easterly direction, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. It traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and is part of the international boundary between Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of New York. This river provides the basis for the commercial Saint Lawrence Seaway.

Bas-Saint-Laurent Administrative region in Quebec, Canada

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References

↑ Gouvernement du Québec. "Seigneurie de Mitis". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). Retrieved May 1, 2013.
↑ Gouvernement du Québec. "MacNider". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). Retrieved August 1, 2013.
↑ Comité du centenaire de Saint-Damase (1984). Centenaire de Saint-Damase 1884-1984 (in French). Matane, Quebec: Comité du centenaire de Saint-Damase. p. 25. ISBN 2-9800328-0-8.
↑ Courville, Serge; Labrecque, Serge (1988). Seigneuries et fiefs du Québec : nomenclature et cartographie (in French). Quebec City, Quebec: Faculté des Lettres de l'Université Laval (CÉLAT). p. 158. ISBN 2-920576-22-4.

Coordinates: 48°37′00″N68°00′00″W / 48.6167°N 68.0000°W / 48.6167; -68.0000

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[1] Gouvernement du Québec. "Seigneurie de Mitis". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). Retrieved May 1, 2013.

[2] Gouvernement du Québec. "MacNider". Commission de toponymie du Québec (in French). Retrieved August 1, 2013.

[3] Comité du centenaire de Saint-Damase (1984). Centenaire de Saint-Damase 1884-1984 (in French). Matane, Quebec: Comité du centenaire de Saint-Damase. p. 25. ISBN 2-9800328-0-8.

[4] Courville, Serge; Labrecque, Serge (1988). Seigneuries et fiefs du Québec : nomenclature et cartographie (in French). Quebec City, Quebec: Faculté des Lettres de l'Université Laval (CÉLAT). p. 158. ISBN 2-920576-22-4.

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