Download or read book The Seigneurial System in Early Canada written by Cole Harris and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its long thin fields and straggling rows of farmhouses stretching along either bank of the St Lawrence river for two hundred miles and more, the landscape of rural Canada toward the end of the French regime presented a distinctive charm and drew later writers to construct idyllic portraits of the social and legal system which, they believed, had shaped it.