the period of French rule in Canada prior to 1758.
- 1904  In the glimmering light of the Old Régime / A figure appears like the flushing gleam / Of sunlight. . . .
- 1913  Jean Jacques Barbille had come of the people of the Old Régime.
- 1960  . . . at the downfall of the old regime in 1758, there were already bands of Metis as well as Indians living in the valley of the Red.