Early (French) European settlement in the general area. This relates to the westward expansion of New France.
1702: The founding of the Seigneurie de Vaudreuil on October 23rd. Title to the seigneurie is granted to Le Marquis Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil.
1703: A mission station is founded by Father de Breslay of the Sulpicians on Ile aux Tourtes. Vestiges of this small mission can be seen on the Vaudreuil side of the river as one crosses Ile aux Tourtes bridge in a westerly direction.
1711: The parish of St. Joachim is established at Pointe Claire.
1720: The parish of La Visitation at Sault-au-Recollet is founded.
1721: The Sulpician mission at Sault aux Recollets moves to present-day Oka. This new mission at Oka is known as La Mission du Lac des Deux Montagnes.
1725: The first thirty-eight concessions (between Cascades and Pointe Cavagnol) are granted by de Vaudreuil. It is not known how many of the concessionaires occupied their land; nor is it known if de Vaudreuil himself ever resided on his seigneurie.
1725: The death of de Vaudeuil. His fourth son, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnol, becomes seigneur. He secures title to the seigneurie on February 10th, 1729.
1732: (Pierre) de Vaudreuil launches a drive to get the concessionaires to establish themselves on the land that has been ceded them. He appoints Charles St-Onge and Joseph Gamelin as his agents. It is their job to recruit people to move to the area. The land around Pointe Cavagnol is surveyed.
1741: The parish of Ste-Genevieve is founded. This parish is located on the western part of the Island of Montreal.
c. 1742: Jean-Baptiste Seguin marries Catherine Raizenne, the daughter of Ignace Raizenne (Josiah Rising (Shoentakwanni) of Suffield, Connecticut), who had been captured in the Deerfield Raid of 1704, and who, as an adult, settled in the Cavagnal area (likely in what is today the Como area). Catherine younger sister, Marie Anne Raizenne had married Louis Seguin (captain of the militia at the fort at Oka and brother to Jean-Baptiste) in 1736.
c. 1742: Between 1742 and 1759, concessionaires establish themselves on the land to be identified later as Como, Hudson and Hudson Heights. Family names such as Castonguay, Farand (dit Vivarais) today spelled Pharand, Pilon, Larocque (dit Rocquebrune), Leger (dit Parisien), Seguin (dit Laderoute), etc., appear for the first time in the area. Many of these families were former residents of the fort at Oka (La Mission du Lac des Deux Montagnes).
1763: The Seigneurie is sold to Marquis Michel Chartier de Lotbiniere, who builds his manor house in present day Dorion.
1768: The new seigneur gives La Point a Brunette (Choisy) to his daughter, Marie Louise.
1769: Michel Eustache Gaspard Alain Chartier (son of the Marquis) buys the Seigneuries of Vaudreuil and Rigaud from his father.
1773: A parish of St-Michel is founded at Vaudreuil.
1781: A census shows that there are 46 landholders (concessionaires) in the seigneurie. Of these 46, two have English surnames--Murray and Nathaniel Lynch.
1783: William Atkinson of Nova Scotia buys Lot #15, above Pointe Cavagnol, from the heirs of Jean-Baptiste Séguin, for his daughter Elizabeth, who is married to John Mark Crank. The Cranks settle on the land in 1789. (Note: At the moment, we do not know who this Jean-Baptiste Seguin was precisely. However, we can say that he was not the Jean-Baptiste Seguin who married Catherine Raizenne in 1742, since he is said to have died in July 1786 while working on his farm. The likelihood is that he was Jean-Baptiste (Jeannot), son of Jean-Baptiste and Genevieve Barbeau, who died in 1779, and who is the ancestor of the Seguin's of Rigaud and Ripon, Quebec.)
1786: The parish of Ste-Jeanne-de-Chantal on Ile Perrot is founded.
c. 1790: W.C. Whitlock (an American) buys Fief Choisy from Marie Louise de Lotbiniere.