Feudal system of landholding, instituted in Canada by the French and its part in Canadian history.

William Bennett Munro (1875-1957) was a Canadian social scientist and eugenicist. He was educated at Queen's University, at the University of Edinburgh, at Harvard University, and at the University of Berlin. From 1901 to 1904 he taught history at Williams College, Massachusetts, and was professor of government at Harvard University until 1929, when he went to the California Institute of Technology as professor of history and government. In 1927 he was elected president of the American Political Science Association, and in 1929 president of the American Association of University Professors. His works include: The Seigniorial System in Canada (1907), Documents Related to the Seigniorial Tenure (1908), The Government of European Cities (1909), The Initiative, Referendum and Recall (1912), Bibliography of Municipal Government (1914), Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration (1916), The Government of the United States (1919) and Social Civics (1922).

The Seigneurs of Old Canada-A Chronicle of New World Feudalism is a classic Canadian history text by William Bennett Munro. It was Samuel Champlain, a seaman of Brouage, who first secured for France and for Frenchmen a sure foothold in North America, and thus became the herald of Bourbon imperialism. After a youth spent at sea, Champlain engaged for some years in the armed conflicts with the Huguenots; then he returned to his old marine life once more.

It was during one of her proud and prosperous eras that France began her task of creating an empire beyond the Atlantic. At no time, indeed, was she better equipped for the work. No power of Western Europe since the days of Roman glory had possessed such facilities for conquering and governing new lands. If ever there was a land able and ready to take up the white man's burden it was the France of the seventeenth century.Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

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Excerpt from The Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism Enabled her, throughout exhausting foreign roubles, to retain her leadership in European cholarship, in philosophy, art, and architecture; his is what has enabled France to be the grim warrior of Europe without ceasing ever to be he idealist of the nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

It was during one of her proud and prosperous eras that France began her task of creating an empire beyond the Atlantic. At no time, indeed, was she better equipped for the work. No power of Western Europe since the days of Roman glory had possessed such facilities for conquering and governing new lands. If ever there was a land able and ready to take up the white man's burden it was the France of the seventeenth century.