page_title: Canadian peers and baronets
section_title: Canadian baronetcies
hierarchical_section_title: Canadian peers and baronets / Canadian nobility in the aristocracy of the United Kingdom / Canadian baronetcies
caption_attribution_description: Sir John Beverley Robinson
context_page_description: Canadian peers and baronets exist in both the peerage of France recognized by the monarch of Canada and the peerage of the United Kingdom.
  In 1627, French Cardinal Richelieu introduced the Seigneurial system of New France. Almost all of the early French Canadians who came as officers in the military or filled important official positions within the colony in New France came from the ranks of the French nobility. Under the Ancien Régime, several of these men were promoted to more senior ranks within the Peerage of France. From the early 1700s, it became customary for the Governors of New France to be given the title marquis. Except for the Marquis de Vaudreuil and the Marquis de Beauharnois, most were in Canada only for a few years before returning to France and are therefore not counted as Canadians.
  The Baronetage of Nova Scotia had been devised by King James VI of Scotland in 1624 as a means of settling Nova Scotia. Except for Sir Thomas Temple, almost none of them came to Nova Scotia, therefore they are counted as British, not Canadian.
context_section_description: Although a baronet is not a peer, it is a British hereditary title and an honour that was conferred upon several Canadians.
caption: Chief Justice Sir John Beverley Robinson, a native of Quebec, dominated the politics of Upper Canada and was the undisputed leader of the Family Compact.
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