Excerpt from The Publications of the Champlain Society: Documents Relating to the Seigniorial Tenure in Canada
Seigniorial Tenure in Canada from its introduction by the French government to its abolition in 1854. The amount of documentary matter which relates directly or indirectly to this phase of French colonisa tion in the New World is so extensive, and its nature is so varied, that the task of determining what ought to be included and what ought to be set aside has proved by no means easy. In general, however, it has seemed advisable that the most important docu ments, even those of somewhat forbidding length, should be printed substantially in full. Such, for ex ample, are the despatches of the intendant Raudot, the elaborate report of the engineer Catalogue, the instructions issued by the British authorities with reference to the colonial land policy during the de cade following the conquest, and the comprehensive reports on the workings of the seigniorial system pre sented to the Canadian legislative authorities in 1790 and in Such documents, on the other hand, as have seemed to be of distinctly less importance.
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