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Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Carte du gouvernement de Qu\u00e9bec lev\u00e9e en l'ann\u00e9e 1709 par les ordres de Monseigneur le Comte de Ponchartrain commandeur des ordres du Roy ministre et secr\u00e9taire d'estat \/ par le Sr. Catalogne lieutenant des troupes\u00a0; et dress\u00e9e par Jean Bte Deco\u00fcagn, 1709.<\/a><\/h3>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nThis map, published in 1709, represents some of the work military surveyors Gedeon de Catalogne and Jean-Baptiste de Couagne conducted in the early decades of the eighteenth century.\u00a0 Their task was to survey each of the seigneuries in the colony. In this map of the area around present-day Quebec City, you can see how land within seigneuries (known as rotures<\/em>) was most often laid out along the St. Lawrence River's banks. Habitants<\/em>, peasant families, would live on this land, creating long stretches of French settlement rather than tight knit towns. North of Quebec, however, you will notice two star shaped surveys. The rotures making up these \"stars\" (known as Trait-Carres<\/em> in French) form the neighbourhood of Charlesbourg and reflect an early desire by Louis XIV for village settlements. This settlement pattern, however, did not take root.\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Carte du gouvernement de Qu\u00e9bec lev\u00e9e en l’ann\u00e9e 1709 par les ordres de Monseigneur le Comte de Ponchartrain commandeur des ordres du Roy ministre et secr\u00e9taire d’estat \/ par le Sr. Catalogne lieutenant des troupes\u00a0; et dress\u00e9e par Jean Bte Deco\u00fcagn, 1709.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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This map, published in 1709, represents some of the work military surveyors Gedeon de Catalogne and Jean-Baptiste de Couagne conducted in the early decades of the eighteenth century.\u00a0 Their task was to survey each of the seigneuries in the colony. In this map of the area around present-day Quebec City, you can see how land within seigneuries (known as rotures<\/em>) was most often laid out along the St. Lawrence River’s banks. Habitants<\/em>, peasant families, would live on this land, creating long stretches of French settlement rather than tight knit towns. North of Quebec, however, you will notice two star shaped surveys. The rotures making up these “stars” (known as Trait-Carres<\/em> in French) form the neighbourhood of Charlesbourg and reflect an early desire by Louis XIV for village settlements. This settlement pattern, however, did not take root.<\/p>\n

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