Old Régime

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the period of French rule in Canada prior to 1758.

Quotations

1904

In the glimmering light of the Old Régime / A figure appears like the flushing gleam / Of sunlight. . . .

1913

Jean Jacques Barbille had come of the people of the Old Régime.

1960

. . . at the downfall of the old regime in 1758, there were already bands of Metis as well as Indians living in the valley of the Red.