page_title: Quebec canton
section_title: Abitibian Canton
hierarchical_section_title: Quebec canton / Main characteristics of the Quebec canton / Abitibian Canton
caption_attribution_description: Schéma d'un canton abitibien
context_page_description: In Quebec, a canton is a historical cadastral division of the territory aimed at facilitating the granting of public lands to individuals for the colonization.
  Unlike the French seigneurial system in force in New France where royalties are levied, these divisions inherited from the cadastral system British are under the tenure of "franc et commun socage", that is to say without royalties to a lord. In this province of Canada, they are for the most part approximately 10 miles by 10 miles except for those located on the banks of a navigable waterway which are 9 miles abreast and 12 miles deep.
context_section_description: Technical characteristics of the Abitibien canton
  10 mi by 10 mi (16 km by 16 km)
  10 rows of 62 lots
  620 lots
  25,900 hectares
  Technical characteristics of the batch
  261.52 m by 1,625.43 m
  42.5 hectares
  Division
  Abitibi-Témiscamingue
  Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
  Côte-Nord
caption: Diagram of an abitibien canton
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