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King's Domain [< F Domaine du Roi] Hist. 
a vast tract of land lying north of the Lower St. Lawrence and originally belonging to the French kings, who leased the trading rights to traders, a practice taken over by the British government after 1760.
See also: King's post (def. 2) Tadoussac Trade
- 1765 His Excellency the Governor and Council have this Day received a Petition from Messrs. Thomas Dunn and John Gray, praying that they would be pleased to secure unto them a peaceable Possession and Enjoyment of their Lease of the Posts of the King's Domain in this Province according to the Conditions therein mentioned.
- 1923 In 1762, Murray had given Thomas Dunn and John Gray a lease of the King's Domain, or the King's Posts, the most important of which were Tadoussac and Chicoutimi.
- 1958 King's Posts [is] a name applied to the trading and fishing posts on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River, within the limits of what was known as the Domaine du Roi (King's Domain).
- 1765 His Excellency the Governor and Council have this Day received a Petition from Messrs. Thomas Dunn and John Gray, praying that they would be pleased to secure unto them a peaceable Possession and Enjoyment of their Lease of the Posts of the King's Domain in this Province according to the Conditions therein mentioned.