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From 1632 to 1635, as the population in Quebec began to grow, its seigneuries were established, and a distinctive culture began to crystallize, the religious institutions of Quebec underwent a renewal.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The fur trade was highly profitable, and the French fisheries were larger in 1635 than ever before, or since.2 Agriculture was taking root in seigneuries along the St. Lawrence Valley and behind the aboiteaux of Acadia.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The peopling of the colony began to grow apace, and the land began to be carved into seigneuries.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In letters patent for settlement in America, the king ordered that land should be granted to people of merit in “fiefs, seigneuries, châtellenies, comtés, vicomtés, baronies and other dignities relating to us.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Later the Crown granted seigneuries mainly to nobles, but this was not a high nobility.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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These men all received large seigneuries, high offices, and titles of nobility.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The fur trade was highly profitable, and the French fisheries were larger in 1635 than ever before, or since.2 Agriculture was taking root in seigneuries along the St. Lawrence Valley and behind the aboiteaux of Acadia.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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From 1632 to 1635, as the population in Quebec began to grow, its seigneuries were established, and a distinctive culture began to crystallize, the religious institutions of Quebec underwent a renewal.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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These patterns later spread south along the Richelieu River toward Lake Champlain, and some of these seigneuries continued to exist under the laws of the state of New York until 1854.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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They created many seigneuries in the St. Lawrence Valley with large tracts of land.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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