Seigneurie1

This is a page for legomego, craZmonkey, jadou, redpumpkin, maximaw to keep notes as they learn about the Seigneurial System.

-The farms are long and skinny -They lived close to the water -The rode in front of there houses is called Le chemin du roi -They are close to the st- lawrence river for transportation, food and water to drink -the seigneurie had a catholic church, a mill to grind wheat into flour, -The seigneur gave land to the habitant -The seigneur lived in a manor house
 * The Seigneurie**

-The houses are made of stone and wood. -Sometimes windows were made of oiled cloth. -There were few windows because they were very expensive and they did not keep alot of warth. -there was one room for every thing and sometimes two rooms -they used candles for light because they didn't have electricity -In the winter they played jack, cards, dominos, songs and stories -In the winter they replaced the fire with a cast iron stove because it heated beter -They baked bread two to three times a week. - The bread was important because they had some every meal
 * A Habitant's Home**

- The place where they kept the animals was called the stable -The milk house was close to the stable -In the milk house they made and keept cheese, butter, and milk -They had a garden to grow vegtables -In the feilds grow corn, weat, oats and barley - if they were new and they don't have a milk house they used there basement - they had tools for threshing and turning the soil over
 * A Habitant's Farm**

- the manor house had a lot of chimnies because thier was a lot of rooms - the manor house had a lot of windows and they were expencive - the rooms were not plain like the habitants house - the seigeurs house was big and made of stone - the siengeurs close were fancyer than the habitants -they celebrated may day by cuting a conifer tree,
 * The Manor House**

-the church was very plain - the common land was used were being trained by the militia captain -on the common land they put c ows if they just arrived. -the miller is the person who works at the mill -the habitant gave some flower to the miller and the siengeur -all the habitant went to catholic church every week on sunday -they have a catholic church on the sengeurie - there was a dam to stop the water but they let some through -
 * Mill, Church & Common Land**