It is surprising and thrilling to learn that we often come across a seigneur, like Michael Beaumont of Sark in the Channel Islands, in Europe even to this day.

The French sent seigneurs granting them large tracts of land to Canada in order to encourage French immigrants in the new land, especially the land along St. Lawrence river.

The seigneurs in the medieval times were equivalent of the feudal lords and lands lords of our recent past and the mining contractors of the present day, who get grants from the government to mine the lands while taking a share of the riches the land provides for themselves and giving a share to the government, but paying very little to the miners who actually toil the land!