Tenants thumb|The Seigneurie () Pursuant to the royal letters patent, the Seigneur was to keep the island inhabited by at least 40 armed men. Therefore, from his lands, 39 parcels or tenements, each sufficient for one family, were subdivided and granted to settlers, the tenants. Later, some of these parcels were dismembered, and parts of the Seigneurial land were sold, creating more parcels.
Tenants thumb|The Seigneurie () Pursuant to the royal letters patent, the Seigneur was to keep the island inhabited by at least 40 armed men. Therefore, from his lands, 39 parcels or tenements each sufficient for one family, were subdivided and granted to settlers, the tenants. Later some of these parcels were dismembered, and parts of the Seigneurial land were sold, creating more parcels.