free township

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Quebec, a township in which the farmers were not subject to seigneurial obligations as was the case until 1854 on the older seigneuries.

Quotations

1929

Farther east they founded "free" townships instead of feudal seigneuries to the south of the St. Lawrence and on the lower Ottawa.