Domaine du roy explained

Conventional Long Name:Domaine du roy
Common Name:Domaine Du Roy
Nation:New France
Image Map Caption:Domaine du Roy, 1731
Capital:Quebec
S2:Province of Quebec (1763–1791)
Flag S2:Flag of Great Britain (1707-1800).svg
Year Start:1652
Event End:Ceded to Britain
Year End:1763
Date End:10 February

The Domaine du roy ("King's Domain") was a vast region of New France extending north from the shore of the Saint Lawrence River between the seigneurie of Les Éboulements (near the City of Quebec) and Cape Cormorant (near the present-day town Lourdes) towards the Hudson Bay watershed, an area claimed by Great Britain as Rupert's Land, the territory covered an area of 460,000 km2.

Established in 1652, the Domaine du roy was renamed "King's Domain" after the French and Indian War.[1] A present-day regional county municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec also inherited the name Le Domaine-du-Roy.

References

  1. Michel Lavoie, Le Domaine du roi 1652-1859, Septentrion, 2010

See also