Lordships and townships in the region Drummondville
The map included, I traced around 1965 to illustrate the Drummondville area. Underlined in blue are 
territories licensed under the French regime (before 1760). These are the estates of St. Anthony's Bay (or Bay St. Antoine), Courval and Nicolet, whose owner was always a gentleman, whether noble or not. The fee is exactly the same as the manor, except it is smaller.
As for townships (Anglicized into "cantons") they began to be surveyed and divided after 1760 according to the British method. Each township has an area of + / - 100 square miles (12,000 x 9000) and has frontage on a major river. The six townships that make up traditional Drummond area are those of Grantham, Wickham and Durham on the left bank of the St. Francis, and Wendover, Simpson and Kingsey on the right bank. All surveyed between 1780 and 1810 approximately, they were granted to English and Scottish Lords to be inhabited, one of these days by the British, which does not happen. Beginning in 1815 they were sold instead to the French Canadians against payment, of course.
Fashion allocation
A lordship lordships is primarily a territory erected during the French regime (1608-17600 along a major river, especially the St. Lawrence. Its facade is usually two French leagues (8 km or 5 miles) Lord committed in receiving in constructing a house and a flour mill (water or wind) and there must concede lots as and when requested. When the first tier of lots is all licensed, he opened the second row, then third and so on until all requests. In Baie Saint-Antoine, the lord Lefebvre conceded first whole section of land along the river, then the second row, (Great Plain) and 3rd (The Country Brule). It was much later that requests occurred to go further inland.
is different for the lordship of Nicolet. Lords of the family Cresse, probably more dynamic, conceded the lots to the present village of St. Perpetua and even farther from the river (almost to the present Our Lady of Good Counsel) . Since they lacked land, they, the Cresse, who worked to open the lordship of Courval behind the Bay of Saint-Antoine. But the French regime ended at that time.
Under the English (1760 +)
When the British took power in 1760 they have left some 110 estates operate as they were already erected under the French regime. But for territories not yet occupied, they proceeded as follows: they were first surveyed, divided and named according to the English method of townships. Taking rests on a big river, they have drawn a width of 9 miles (15 km) frontage overlooking the River. Then, perpendicular, straight line 12 miles (20 km) which gave a new territory based on the lordship of Courval and Nicolet, who was named Wendover, named after a small English town of north-west London. We then divided the territory into 12 ranks (rows) of a mile long and lots of 9 acres wide.
Note: the little red X indicates the third batch of the 5th row
ang Wendover, where I grew up. Late in the 4th position, always on the 3rd prize (4th place) was the farm of my grandfather Joseph Prince and his wife, my grandmother Mary-Louise Masse said Bouvillier. GP
Note: the word rank does not mean way but lots of rows. All these ranks were granted to officers on paper English before 1815 for his services to the British Empire. Examples: the third row of Wendover has been granted to a Mr. Ramsay Québec, the 4th largest in Lord John McEwen of Glasgow in Scotland, etc., without anyone ever come
or visit them, much less settle there. The government forced them to offer the only
anglophones (not Catholic) Anglicans preferably, but Methodists, Presbyterians and others. It did not work: the English, Scots and Germans and their allies had absolutely no desire to cross the ocean to a land clearing here.
was very different for francophones by: because of large families, young people were very cramped in the estates and demanding a hue and cry of the land in the townships.
Thus we have to wait to 1844 half a century after receiving his gift of land that Mr. Ramsey has agreed to sell the second batch of the third row of Wendover (indicated by a red dot) to a French, Charles Gariepy, born in St. Denis sur Richelieu, aged 42 and father of 12 children. Followed, on neighboring lots, Cyrille Jutras and Marie Brassard, Louis Jutras and Amélie Grondin (my great-grandparents) in 1846 and so on. In 1870 almost all lots of Wendover (approximately 300) had been granted, all francophones.
Gerald Prince. April 2009
territories licensed under the French regime (before 1760). These are the estates of St. Anthony's Bay (or Bay St. Antoine), Courval and Nicolet, whose owner was always a gentleman, whether noble or not. The fee is exactly the same as the manor, except it is smaller. As for townships (Anglicized into "cantons") they began to be surveyed and divided after 1760 according to the British method. Each township has an area of + / - 100 square miles (12,000 x 9000) and has frontage on a major river. The six townships that make up traditional Drummond area are those of Grantham, Wickham and Durham on the left bank of the St. Francis, and Wendover, Simpson and Kingsey on the right bank. All surveyed between 1780 and 1810 approximately, they were granted to English and Scottish Lords to be inhabited, one of these days by the British, which does not happen. Beginning in 1815 they were sold instead to the French Canadians against payment, of course.
Fashion allocation
A lordship lordships is primarily a territory erected during the French regime (1608-17600 along a major river, especially the St. Lawrence. Its facade is usually two French leagues (8 km or 5 miles) Lord committed in receiving in constructing a house and a flour mill (water or wind) and there must concede lots as and when requested. When the first tier of lots is all licensed, he opened the second row, then third and so on until all requests. In Baie Saint-Antoine, the lord Lefebvre conceded first whole section of land along the river, then the second row, (Great Plain) and 3rd (The Country Brule). It was much later that requests occurred to go further inland.
is different for the lordship of Nicolet. Lords of the family Cresse, probably more dynamic, conceded the lots to the present village of St. Perpetua and even farther from the river (almost to the present Our Lady of Good Counsel) . Since they lacked land, they, the Cresse, who worked to open the lordship of Courval behind the Bay of Saint-Antoine. But the French regime ended at that time.
Under the English (1760 +)
When the British took power in 1760 they have left some 110 estates operate as they were already erected under the French regime. But for territories not yet occupied, they proceeded as follows: they were first surveyed, divided and named according to the English method of townships. Taking rests on a big river, they have drawn a width of 9 miles (15 km) frontage overlooking the River. Then, perpendicular, straight line 12 miles (20 km) which gave a new territory based on the lordship of Courval and Nicolet, who was named Wendover, named after a small English town of north-west London. We then divided the territory into 12 ranks (rows) of a mile long and lots of 9 acres wide.
Note: the little red X indicates the third batch of the 5th row
ang Wendover, where I grew up. Late in the 4th position, always on the 3rd prize (4th place) was the farm of my grandfather Joseph Prince and his wife, my grandmother Mary-Louise Masse said Bouvillier. GP Note: the word rank does not mean way but lots of rows. All these ranks were granted to officers on paper English before 1815 for his services to the British Empire. Examples: the third row of Wendover has been granted to a Mr. Ramsay Québec, the 4th largest in Lord John McEwen of Glasgow in Scotland, etc., without anyone ever come
or visit them, much less settle there. The government forced them to offer the only
anglophones (not Catholic) Anglicans preferably, but Methodists, Presbyterians and others. It did not work: the English, Scots and Germans and their allies had absolutely no desire to cross the ocean to a land clearing here.
was very different for francophones by: because of large families, young people were very cramped in the estates and demanding a hue and cry of the land in the townships.
Thus we have to wait to 1844 half a century after receiving his gift of land that Mr. Ramsey has agreed to sell the second batch of the third row of Wendover (indicated by a red dot) to a French, Charles Gariepy, born in St. Denis sur Richelieu, aged 42 and father of 12 children. Followed, on neighboring lots, Cyrille Jutras and Marie Brassard, Louis Jutras and Amélie Grondin (my great-grandparents) in 1846 and so on. In 1870 almost all lots of Wendover (approximately 300) had been granted, all francophones.
Gerald Prince. April 2009
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