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Originally Posted by Proof Sheet
Great map. I wouldn't have thought Noyan was considered part of the Townships. Isn't Noyan where there is a border crossing to New York State? I would have thought the Townships starts a bit to the east as I find the Noyan area still within the South Shore Montreal gravitational pull
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Noyan, Clarenceville, Pike River, parts of Stanbridge township and Saint-Armand are the only part of the province that were conceded as seigneuries in the 18th century (1733 - know as seigneuries of lake Champlain, precisely Noyan, Foucault and Saint-Armand) and later as townships. Those seigneuries were sparsely populated due to the insecurity at the border at that time (1783, first mention of the boundary, and loss of Lake Champlain for Canada. The border wasn't really fixed at the 45th parallel until the Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842).
Thus, after 1783, those seigneuries were re-conceded as townships (mostly in 1790). It coincided with the massive arrival of Loyalists, and later the beginning of massive programmed immigration from the British islands.
By the way, I was born there, in the seigneurie of Noyan ;-)
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