QUEBEC FEUDAL SYSTEM PASSING
TITHES TO BE ABOLISHED The-ancient feudal system inaugurated in French-Canada when the triple fluer-de-iis of Louis XIV floated from the battlements of Quebec City, is to he abolished within a year (states Reuter’s Canadian News Service). This announcement has been made by the Quebec Minister of Municipal Affairs and Trade and Commerce (Mr Bouchard). Most of tile landed seigneurs throughout tiio provinces have agreed to accept a lump sum in lieu of annual tithes by Lheir tenants. Under the old system, tenants of a seigniory paid a certain sum and stocked the seigneur’s granaries and larder with produce of the soil as rent. Mr Bouchard has decided that seigniavial leases of this kind were a burden to present lessees and lie has secured enactment of the law which will result 111 their invalidation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 January 1936, Page 3
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