| In New France (later to be called Quebec), the French feudal system of land granting was used. Large estates, or seigneuries, were granted by the French Crown to soldiers and members of the elite in lieu of payments for their service to the King. The first land concessions were made in 1634, and by 1760 -- at the end of the French regime in Canada -- over 250 seigneuries existed. The owners divided each of these grants into many narrow long lot farms to provide access to the only means of transport at the time: rivers. Check out the long lot land use patterns just outside of Montreal. The map shows the location of the seigneurial land holdings. They are concentrated along __________? |
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| Answer: the St. Lawrence River and along its tributaries |
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