Show FRENCH ESTATES IN CANADA SOLD TO conquerors the history of the relles relics of a sort of feudal system in quebec Is briefly this not long after wolfes victory the scottish highlanders High landers marched arched in into quebec with the victorious army the french garrison was sent away to france the british fleet boon followed and the conquerors quer ors with general murray in command settled down to face the rigors of a quebec winter rather than live under british rule many civilians also left canada and with them many of the lords of the numerous manors they sold bold out their holdings cheap and so it chanced that general murray became pos seabed of a considerable amount of property both personal and governmental james murray the son of a scottish peer lord Eli Ell bank was a high brave generous and impulsive officer of scarcely more than thirty years at this time ile he describes himself as a soldier of fortune and was certainly not rich yet now cow when many of the canadian seignior v Igni orles ies were being sold he be managed to purchase half a dozen vast estates balme and fraser had little money with which to buy property but they ba had d done good service and when they th e y aspired to become seigneurs seigne urs general murray supported them the property was vested in the government for which murray was authorized to act balme apparently had greater resources than fraser eraser and being now captain was his senior in rank ne ile asked for the more important tract that lying on the right bank of the murray rl river and stretching to the sel fiory of les fraser contented himself with the manor lying on the left bank and extending some eighteen gitles along the salin saint lawrence to the riviere noire about half way to tadoussac Tadous sac the grants wore were to extend for three ica into the interior in order to preserve the name of their friend and vatron patron balme called his murray bay and fraser called his mount murray the village of e TA le melbale lies between them |