beaudette

Updated: June 28, 2025

Of the ten thousand people who sought the valley of the St Lawrence, some settled in Montreal, at Chambly, and in parts of the present Eastern Townships, but the great majority accepted grants of land on the banks of the St. Lawrence from River Beaudette, on Lake St. Francis, as far as the beautiful Bay of Quinté in the Niagara District, and on the shores of Lake Erie.

Sir John George Bourinot - Canada under British Rule 1760-1900

Lawrence and Niagara Rivers sent a petition in 1785 to the home government, praying for the establishment of a new district west of the River Beaudette "with the blessings of British laws and British government, and of exemption from French tenure of property."

Sir John George Bourinot - Canada under British Rule 1760-1900